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NVIDIA previews Project KAL-EL, their next generation processor
Today at the Mobile World Congress, NVIDIA gave the world a preview of their upcoming processor. Codenamed KAL-EL (though also referred to as Tegra 3 before), this new processor will be the successor to their hit dual-core processor, the Tegra 2. KAL-EL is a quad-core chip with a GPU 3 times faster than one in Tegra 2, and an overall performance that is 5 times better than the Tegra 2. The chip will be capable of supporting Extreme HD resolutions – 2560 x 1600, so if you’re thinking that it would be impossible for the iPad 2 to have Retina Display resolution, think again. Despite such massive upgrades to the performance and capabilities of the chip, NVIDIA has taken into consideration the power usage of the processor as well, and they’ve managed to make it more power efficient than the Tegra 2.Expect the chip to make its way to mobile devices later this year. For a more in-depth preview of the processor, head here.
The title says it all, and that was pretty quick. It was only yesterday when the iOS 5 was announced and the beta was made available to developers but yet wasting little to no time, hackers MuscleNerd and Co have managed to jailbreak iOS 5 on the iPod touch fourth generation. The exploit they used was the limera1n jailbreak which means that iOS 5 presented the hackers with little surprises when it came to closing the loop holes that would make the limera1n exploit work.
Naturally the iOS 5 is currently in beta which means there are probably still plenty of holes to be exploited and we can only assume that in the final release iOS 5 would-be hackers will have a harder time trying to jailbreak it. However this is good news for those on jailbroken devices who were worried that they might be in for a rather long wait when it comes to getting the jailbroken version if iOS 5 on their devices.
Anyone who has owned an iOS device knows that upon out of the box, the first thing they see is their device asking them to tether it to their computer in order to set up synch with iTunes. Not necessarily a bad thing but what if the person’s computer was not well equipped enough to run iTunes properly or what if they didn’t know what all these synching meant?
Tabbed browsing isn’t new. In fact there are browser apps already available for iOS that features tabbed browsing, but either way we are happy that Apple has decided to sit up and take notice of what users want in their browsers and finally implemented tabbed browsing in their native iOS browser app, Safari.