Intel's Ivy Bridge will offer '20 percent more performance with 20 percent less average power'

Intel's Ivy Bridge will offer '20 percent more performance with 20 percent less average power'

So, there's still a little while to go before Intel gives Ivy Bridge a full unveiling, with official benchmarks, pricing and all those trimmings. But in the meantime, the BBC has detailed just how different this new architecture is compared to 32nm chips like Sandy Bridge and also AMD's coming Trinity processors. Most of this stuff we already knew -- like the fact that Intel has switched to a 3D or 'tri-gate' transistor design -- but what's new is a direct and official boast about performance. According to Kirk Skaugen, Chipzilla's PC chief, we can expect Ivy Bridge to deliver "20 percent more processor performance using 20 percent less average power." Now, judging from leaked desktop and laptop benchmarks, this broad-brush claim masks some very different realities depending on what type of CPU or GPU workloads you want throw at the chip, so stay tuned for more detail very soon.

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Importance of intake of health supplements in today's world

The intake of food these days has been off balance to a great extent. The eating habits of the youth have made the perfect imbalance of the consumption of the vitamin and minerals. This has led to the introduction of the health supplements in the regular diet of the people.?Use of Natural Supplements?is an amazing alternate as they take care of the person's health without giving any adverse side effects.?They are the healthiest way in which one can fulfill the gap created by insufficient vitamin intake; they play the role of the vitamins in the body of a person. These supplements in food are found in abundance in the market that fulfills the need of required nutrients that the body asks for to stay fit and healthy.

Vitamins when missing in your diet, you have to find substitutes to replace them.

They are available in the nearby stores in small amounts of dissimilar forms like capsules, tablets, liquids and even chewable tablets.?There are examples like whey proteins, Sevenseas Seacod that keeps your vitamins in check. The cod liver oil has all the vitamins like vitamin A, vitamin C, vitamin E and also the fatty acids of Omega 3 that helps you to have a smooth skin texture and healthy and shiny hair. Vitamins supplements are required only when you do not get them with your food eating habit. For your health it is necessary to have them in your leafy vegetables and fruits.

Also there is a responsibility of careful consumption of those supplements as there is a bad side to every thing. You need to pay attention to the right amount of doses, ingredients, protection and safety precautions, and other information like the way in which it should be taken along with the proper supplements that suit you. An important factor is that the?food and drug administration board?does not supervise the?creation and sale of vitamin and nutritional supplements so it is our moral responsibility to be sure of the brand which we choose, since in this age of maintaining the body these supplements are unavoidable after our workout regimes.

The Health supplements should be consumed in their most natural form. They are specifically available to both the genders to meet their needs. Let us just go through the men and women requirement.

  • Men?s Health Supplements - For them there are numerous kinds of herbal health supplements available that work on making them stress free and relieve them from fatigue of day to day life. The intake of?Natural supplements?for men is helpful in eradicating men?s problems and at the same time prevents them from heart related diseases or from Type 2 diabetes.
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Increasing number of people is starting to use the Health supplements as they slow the process of aging and for a better and healthy life.

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Sarkozy courts French far right after Hollande win

(Reuters) - French President Nicolas Sarkozy appealed directly to far right voters on Monday with pledges to get tough on immigration and security, after a record showing in a first round election by the National Front made them potential kingmakers.

Polls show centre-right leader Sarkozy on course to become the first French president to lose a bid for re-election in more than 30 years, trailing Socialist challenger Francois Hollande ahead of a May 6 run-off.

Hollande pipped Sarkozy in Sunday's 10-candidate first round by 28.6 percent to 27.2 percent, but National Front leader Marine Le Pen stole the show, surging to 17.9 percent, the biggest tally a far-right candidate has ever managed.

Her performance mirrored advances across the continent by anti-establishment Euroskeptical populists from Amsterdam and Vienna to Helsinki as the euro zone's grinding debt crisis deepens anger over government spending cuts and unemployment.

"National Front voters must be respected," Sarkozy told reporters as he left his campaign headquarters in Paris. "They voiced their view. It was a vote of suffering, a crisis vote. Why insult them? I have heard Mr Hollande criticizing them."

The unpopular Sarkozy, the first sitting president to be forced into second place in the first round of a re-election bid, now faces a difficult balancing act to attract both the far-right and centrist voters he needs to stay in office.

The weak showing by Sarkozy spooked investors already nervous about European governments' ability to service their debts, helping to send French stocks and bonds lower.

Returning to the campaign trail on Monday, Sarkozy hammered home promises to toughen border controls, tighten security on the streets and keep industrial jobs in France - signature issues for Le Pen at a time of anger over immigration, violent crime and unemployment running at a 12-year high.

Sarkozy will hold a "real workers'" day rally on May 1 in a bid to upstage simultaneous events held by Hollande, the FN and trade unions.

After five turbulent years leading the world's fifth economy, Sarkozy could go the way of 10 other euro zone leaders swept from office since the start of the crisis in late 2009.

Hollande has vowed to change the direction of Europe by tempering austerity measures with higher taxes on the rich and more social spending. Polls published on Sunday predicted he would win the run-off with between 53 and 56 percent of votes.

But the strong showing of Le Pen, gravel-voiced 43-year-old daughter of National Front founder Jean-Marie Le Pen, offered Sarkozy a glimmer of hope by suggesting there are more votes up for grabs on the right than had been thought.

"Marine Le Pen's breakthrough throws the second round wide open," read the front page of right-leaning Le Figaro, while left-wing Liberation read: "Hollande leads. Le Pen the killjoy".

HIGH TURNOUT

Hollande blamed Sarkozy for fuelling the rise in the far right and said he would make no attempt to seek National Front votes. "Since some voters supported them out of anger, I will listen to them...but I will not court the far right," he said.

On a strong turnout of 80.2 percent, more than a third of voters cast ballots for protest candidates outside the mainstream, foreshadowing a possible reshaping of France's political balance of power at parliamentary elections in June.

Le Pen's focus is now on securing a strong National Front showing in the parliamentary vote, and she is keeping her distance from Sarkozy, describing him as doomed.

"Faced with an outgoing president who will leave a much weakened party, we are the only true opposition to the neo-liberal left," she told cheering supporters on Sunday.

She said she would give her view on the runoff at a May Day rally in Paris. Speaking on France 2 she said it was insulting to her voters to say they had chosen her in protest and suggested she would not formally endorse either candidate.

"I don't change my mind like I change my shirt," she said. "I have nothing to sell or negotiate. For a long time I have considered Nicolas Sarkozy and Francois Hollande to be the same on core subjects."

It is not the first time Sarkozy has appealed to National Front voters before a runoff - the tactic helped him win his first mandate in 2007. Le Pen's strategy director Florian Philippot said it would not work twice: "The French no longer fall for this electioneering game Sarkozy plays."

Financial market analysts say whoever wins in two weeks' time will have to impose tougher austerity measures than either candidate has admitted during the campaign, cutting public spending as well as raising taxes to cut the budget deficit.

INVESTOR JITTERS

European markets were sour after the French results and the Dutch government's failure to push through an austerity budget made elections there almost unavoidable. The euro retreated from two-week highs, European stocks opened lower, and safe-haven German bonds opened higher, increasing the premium investors demand to hold French and Dutch bonds.

"It's beginning to look like the perfect storm," said Stewart Richardson, chief investment officer at RMG. "It looks like the French vote was more against Sarkozy than we would have thought last week, and so there is a leftward lurch in France."

Sarkozy challenged Hollande to three television debates over the next two weeks instead of the customary one. But Socialist aides said Hollande, who has no ministerial experience and is a less accomplished television performer than Sarkozy, had made clear he would accept only one prime-time live debate, on May 2.

Communist-backed hard leftist Jean-Luc Melenchon, who polls showed at one stage challenging Le Pen for third place, finished a distant fourth on 11.1 percent, ahead of centrist Francois Bayrou with 9.1 percent.

Political pundits said Hollande still appears to have larger reserves of second-round votes than Sarkozy, who would need to pick up at least three quarters of Le Pen's supporters and two thirds of Bayrou's to squeak a wafer-thin victory.

Polls taken on Sunday by three institutes suggested that between 48 and 60 percent of Le Pen voters planned to switch to the president, while Bayrou's backers split almost evenly between the two finalists, with one third undecided.

Bayrou said he would make his decision on May 3 after consulting and listening to the two finalists.

"The game is getting very difficult for Nicolas Sarkozy," Jerome Saint-Marie of CSA polling agency told i>TELE. "There's a genuine demand for social justice, precisely because times are hard and voters see sacrifices will have to be made ... What they want is that this pain is fairly shared."

Melenchon, whose fiery calls for a "citizens' revolution" drew tens of thousands to open-air rallies, urged his followers to turn out massively on May 6 to defeat Sarkozy, but he could not bring himself to mention Hollande by name.

Greens candidate Eva Joly endorsed Hollande, who can also count on the modest votes of two Trotskyist also-rans.

"Sarkozy is going to be torn between campaigning in the middle ground and campaigning on the right. He'll have to reach out to the right between the rounds, so he'll lose the centre," said political scientist Stephane Rozes of the CAP think-tank.

If Hollande wins, joining a small minority of left-wing governments in Europe, he has promised to renegotiate a European budget discipline treaty signed by Sarkozy. That could presage tension with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who made the pact a condition for further assistance to troubled euro zone states.

A spokesman for Merkel said on Monday she continued to support Sarkozy but had no plans to campaign on his behalf.

(Additional reporting by Catherine Bremer, John Irish, Nicholas Vinocur, Vicky Buffery, Alexandria Sage, Brian Love, Matthias Blamont and Daniel Flynn in Paris, Anirban Nag in London; Editing by Peter Graff)

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YouTube?s very first video turns 7 years old today

With a service as big as?YouTube ? with literally dozens of hours of new content popping up every minute ? it's easy to forget how it all began. Today marks the seventh birthday of YouTube's very first clip which, like much of the site's user-generated content, is a bit humorous but almost entirely pointless.

The 19-second video is entitled?Me at the zoo, and it features YouTube co-founder?Jawed Karim as he talks a bit about elephants and their?really long trunks. The short clip has tallied nearly 7.5 million views since it popped online in April of 2005, which is an impressive number but nowhere near some of the heavy viral hitters like?Evolution of Dance (194 million views) or?Charlie bit my finger (448 million views).

In the seven years since its launch, YouTube has seen some truly explosive growth. The site now enjoys over 800 million unique viewers per month, watching over four billion videos each day. 60 hours of video is uploaded to the?streaming portal every minute, which is the equivalent of roughly 11,368 copies of?Me at the zoo. That's a lot of elephants.

[via?Mashable]

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Skype app won't work on low-end Windows Phone devices

Skype app won't work on low-end Windows Phone devices

Buried within Skype's announcement that its app has finally graduated from beta on Windows Phone, the mention of a 512MB minimum memory requirement reveals that the Internet phone service won't -- currently -- work with the likes of Nokia's Lumia 610 and the ZTE Tania. Skype has logged this under "current issues", which we hope means the company is working tirelessly to squeeze the app into cheaper Windows Phone hardware. Other features still being worked on include Bluetooth compatibility and Skype SMS messaging support. C'mon, they're part of the family now -- can't they all just get along?

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Take Credit For The Jobs You Create With SmartRecruiters? ?Got Jobs?? Campaign

smartrecruitersThanks to an election year and a high employment rate, jobs seem to be dominating the headlines even more than usual. Now SmartRecruiters, a hiring startup recently backed by the Mayfield Fund, is trying to tap into that interest ? and maybe do some good in the process ? with a campaign it's calling "Got Jobs?" The company says that its technology is can help small- and medium-sized businesses, in particular, cast a wider net as they try to fill open positions. Rather than just posting their job listings to a few sites like Craigslist and Monster, SmartRecruiters customers can post to to more than 100 job boards, including LinkedIn and Careerbuilder, then track applications and feedback. And SmartRecruiters is free to use. (It takes a percentage of the fee when you post to a paid job board or buy background checks from third-party vendor.)

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How would you change the Jawbone Up?

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Ordinarily, we'd be dismissive if you answered that question with "Doy, make it work!" but in the special case of the Jawbone Up, it's entirely apt. The wristband promised plenty of technological advances that would track your sleep, calories burned and diarize your food intake, all within the confines of a slender cord wrapped around your wrist. The downside? A significant proportion of the units conked out days after being opened, forcing the company to offer no-questions-asked refunds and halt production. So, what we want to know is: do you have a working Up? Does it still work? Do you like it? If Hosain Rahman was reading the comments below, how would you suggest he goes about fixing things?

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