64-bit News

Intel has just made available a new Iris and HD Graphics driver, namely version 10.18.15.4256, which includes compatibility with Microsoft’s 64-bit architecture of Windows 10, as well as support for DirectX 11.3, DirectX 12, PlayReady 3 for 1080p playback, and Miracast.

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Huawei's mid-range Android smartphone G8 has been spotted at TENAA last week and we thought it will take the Chinese company a few weeks to officially unveil the device.

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PHP 7 was announced last year, and the PHP team has started releasing the first alpha versions during June this year. Now the first PHP 7 beta hit the Interwebs, and it brings the engine closer and closer to its end goal.

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Asus announced the ZenPad S 8.0 tablet last month and promised that the slate will go on sale sometime in July. The good news is the company's brand new Android tablet is now available for purchase in the United States.

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Microsoft’s plan for Windows 10 was to make the new operating system the best choice for any activity that you might want to do on your computer, including working, browsing the web, sending emails, watching movies, or playing games.

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Some of you might remember Huawei’s latest release in the tablet space, the MediaPad M2, which was launched in France last month. We were expecting the tablet to be rolled out globally beginning this month, but it looks like the Chinese company has decided to launch a special version of MediaPad M2.

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Red Hat had the great pleasure of announcing the availability of the first Development Preview of their upcoming Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7.1 for ARM operating system.

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In my previous post I talked about recursion problems in a Fibonacci function using 64-bit variables as function parameters, compiled using the Microsoft Visual C++ compiler. It turned out that while tail recursion was enabled by the compiler using 32-bit types it didn't really when switching to 64-bit ones.

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I want to share with you a problem I run into comparing iterative and recursive functions in C++. There are several differences between recursion and iteration, this article explains the topic nicely if you want to know more. In general languages like Java, C, and Python, recursion is fairly expensive compared to iteration because it requires the allocation of a new stack frame.

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The Samsung Galaxy Note 4 is in line for an Android 5.1.1 update, according to a report on the matter. The phablet, which will make way for the Galaxy Note 5 in a couple of months' time, took what seemed like an age to get Android 5.0 Lollipop, but according to SamMobile, testing for Android 5.1.1 is now under way.

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Karanbir Singh has had the great pleasure of announcing the immediate availability for download of 64-bit (x86_64) images for the Vagrant open-source and cross-platform virtual development environment creation software.

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Taiwanese company HTC is back with yet another high-end smartphone in the One series. But this time the device is really unique in the fact that it's the first that comes equipped with MediaTek's latest Helio X10 processor.

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Chinese OEM recently launched two high-end smartphones, the R7 and R7 Plus, which are already available for pre-order in some countries. They are expected to hit shelves next month, but there's no confirmation on that for now.

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On June 2, Fedora Project, through Peter Robinson, had the great pleasure of announcing the immediate availability for download of the Fedora 22 Linux operating system for the PowerPC and IBM System z (s390) 64-bit hardware architectures.

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Computex 2015 technology trade fair has just kicked off and at least two companies announced lots of products that will be launched on the market throughout the year, Acer and Asus.

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