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Ceramic fuel cells could be the future of green, at-home power and heat generation June 4, 2014 at 12:10 pm Researchers have developed a low-cost ceramic fuel cell that could use natural gas to provide a home with both heat and electricity generated on site. Pornhub delivers: Apple users surf the most porn, while Opera users are the quickest June 4, 2014 at 11:00 am Finally! Thanks to Pornhub, the world’s largest porn site, we have some real statistics to back up the assumption that Apple users are prone to regular self-loving. Is this proof that, despite any preconceptions that the media might have, that Windows and Android users get more action than those stylish iDevice hipsters? The first fully-2D, wonder-material graphene-molybdenite transistor could be the future of fast electronics June 4, 2014 at 8:39 am Researchers at Berkeley Lab, using a trio of single-atom-thick wonder materials — graphene, boron nitride, and molybdenite — have created the first all-2D field-effect transistor. This FET could also be the first in a new class of electronic devices that are held together with the van der Waals force — the same force that geckos use to walk up a piece of glass. According to Berkeley Lab, these 2D, wonder-material FETs could be the key to a ‘faster electronics future.’ AMD’s new mobile Kaveri APU brings a big performance boost, now almost competitive with Intel in laptops June 4, 2014 at 6:55 am AMD has unveiled its new mobile Kaveri APUs with significantly higher clock speeds and performance boosts. The new chip should narrow the gap between AMD and Intel in the mobile space and help the smaller company compete more effectively with its rival. ET deals: Toshiba S50 Core i3 touchscreen laptop for $530 June 3, 2014 at 5:11 pm Toshiba’s S-class family of laptops are designed with a little extra style and oomph compared to their more mainstream lines, and we’ve just spotted the 15.6-inch S50 drop to an all time price low. Combined with a price cut for a touchscreen upgrade, you can now get an attractive fourth-gen Core i3 touchscreen laptop for just $530. That’s a… Intel’s new 14nm Core M chip will finally bring big-core x86 CPUs to fanless tablets June 3, 2014 at 3:28 pm Intel debuted its upcoming Broadwell Y CPU and Llama Mountain prototype at Computex yesterday. The new chip is the centerpiece of the thinnest, lightest x86 tablet we’ve ever seen fielded with a “big core” x86 processor inside. Apple’s new Swift language explained: A clever move to boost iOS, while holding Android apps back June 3, 2014 at 2:45 pm With iOS 8 and OS X 10.10, and the the latest version of the Xcode developer tools, Apple has introduced a whole new programming language called Swift. According to Apple, Swift will make it a lot easier and more fun to develop apps for both iOS and OS X — in contrast to the current language, Objective-C. Swift will also apparently bring a significant performance boost over Objective-C programs. But what is Swift, and how does it offer such a huge performance boost? Apple unveils Metal API for iOS 8, will shave off OpenGL overhead just like Mantle, DX12 June 3, 2014 at 1:38 pm Apple’s new Metal API could revolutionize the company’s gaming support — will Google let this stand, now that both of its competitors have their own close-to-metal approaches to game rendering? GameWorks FAQ: AMD, Nvidia, and game developers weigh in on the GameWorks controversy June 3, 2014 at 11:57 am Nvidia’s GameWorks has been a hot topic in the news again, but what do actual game developers think of the program? We asked them — and the answers may surprise you. OLDER Stories NEWER Stories Follow Follow @ExtremeTech ExtremeTech Newsletter Subscribe Today to get the latest ExtremeTech news delivered right to your inbox. Subscribing to a newsletter indicates your consent to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy . More Articles ET deals: Samsung NX Mini 20.5MP digital camera with 9mm lens and $125 Dell eGift Card for $400 Aug 5 DirectX 12 is coming next year, but it probably won’t help Xbox One games run at 1080p Aug 5 Full duplex: A fundamental radio tech breakthrough that could double throughput, alleviate the spectrum crunch Aug 5 Could Microsoft upgrade the Xbox One’s hardware to fix the PS4 performance gap? 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