Bermuda's Stunning Underwater Views Now in Street View

Google is boasting about some stunning new Street View imagery now available though, truth be told, these photos are as far removed from a street as you can get. These aren't the first images taken underwater for Street View, but the new imagery from Bermuda is guaranteed to leave you wishing for an exotic holiday. "Dive underwater from the island of Bermuda with #StreetView. Explore the Mary Celeste Wreck and more at maps.google.com/ocean," Google wrote. "Taken in partnership with Catlin Seaview Survey, this imagery highlights efforts to protect the waters around Bermuda," it added. Google has been working with the Catlin Seaview Survey to map and photograph underwater areas in several stunning locations. Imagery from the Galapagos...

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PowerColor's Pair of Overclocked AMD Radeon R9 290X Graphics Cards

TUL Corporation has released two PowerColor-branded AMD Radeon R9 290X graphics cards, which are among the few that actually don't totally stick to AMD's reference specs. The Hawaii GPU (2816 stream processors) normally runs at 1 GHz, but PowerColor's R9 290X go with 1030 MHz instead. Both of them. And by both, I mean that there is a PowerColor card with a bundled copy of Battlefield 4 and one without it. Don't think that's a freebie though. The new video board costs $550 / €550, but the game will add around $25 / €25 to the price tag. There are 4 GB of GDDR5 VRAM installed on the black-painted newcomers, communicating with the GPU over an interface of 512 bits. The clock is of 5 GHz. 4K gaming (UHD resolution, 3840 x 2160 pixels)...

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Qualcomm Executive Reassigned After Calling Apple’s A7 Chip a “Gimmick”

A short-sighted Qualcomm executive is seeing his status downgraded by his employers after making a rather bold remark regarding Apple’s marketing of the A7 chip, which is built on a 64-bit architecture. In an interview with IDG, Anand Chandrasekher said, “I know there's a lot of noise because Apple did [64-bit] on their A7. I think they are doing a marketing gimmick. There's zero benefit a consumer gets from that.” I covered the story on October 9 refraining from saying “there will be consequences.” Apple buys millions of wireless chips from Qualcomm. Case in point, the same IDG now reports that Qualcomm has removed Chandrasekher from the company’s leadership page. A statement from Qualcomm reads: “Anand Chandrasekher, is moving...

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AMD Radeon R9 290X Hawaii Graphics Card Finally Launched

After weeks of skirting around the issue, Advanced Micro Devices has finally made the official introduction of its latest and greatest single-GPU graphics adapter: Radeon R9 290X. This is one of those cards based on a new GPU (graphics processing unit) and barred from any sort of physical design modification by OEMs. That means that AMD's many partners (Sapphire, ASUS, Gigabyte, MSI, Club 3D, etc.) won't be launching custom-made cards any time soon. That doesn't mean factory overclocking is completely forbidden though. As we understand it, several of AMD's OEMs have implemented minor tweaks to the GPU frequency, despite not being able to change the cooler. Spec-wise, AMD's Radeon R9 290X has a 28nm Hawaii GPU at 1 GHz, 4 GB of GDDR5...

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BBM for iOS 1.0.2 Now Available for Download

Good news for BlackBerry Messenger users disappointed by the application’s severe issues on iOS smartphones, as the Canadian company has just released an update meant to address all these problems. We reported yesterday that iOS users experienced random BBM crashes when trying to use the application. The issue only affected those who upgraded their iPhones to iOS 7.0.3 and was caused by the fact that Apple removed a “HelveticaNeue-Italic” font used by BBM. Luckily, BlackBerry provided a bug fix in less than 24 hours and even delivered more features and improvements to the iOS version of BBM. The latest version of BBM for iOS comes with contact categories, List Sorting and filtering in BBM Groups, lots of performance improvements...

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