Light Field Cameras for 3D Imaging and Reconstruction | Thoughts from Tom Kurke

This is a excellent article talking about light field / plenoptic cameras, Pelican imaging, Lytro and listing out all the signigicant published papers in this area.
http://3dsolver.com/light-field-cameras-for-3d-imaging/

Linus Torvalds Gives Nvidia the Finger. Literally | Wired Enterprise | Wired.com

http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/06/torvalds-nvidia-linux/

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NVIDIA open sources CUDA compiler, shares its LLVM-based love with everyone

From Engadget

A few years back, Intel prognosticated that NVIDIA's CUDA technology was destined to be a "footnote" in computing history. Since that time, Jen-Hsun Huang's low level virtual machine (LLVM) based compiler has more than proven its worth in severalsupercomputers, and now NVIDIA has released the CUDA source code to further spread the parallel computing gospel. This move opens up the code to be used with more programming languages and processors (x86 or otherwise) than ever before, which the company hopes will spur development of "next-generation higher performance computing platforms." Academics and chosen developers can get their hands on the code by registering with NVIDIA at the source below, so head on down and get started --petaflop parallel processing supercomputers don't build themselves, you know.

NVIDIA's Tegra 3 Outruns Apple's A5 In First Benchmarks

From Slashdot:

NVIDIA's Tegra 3 Outruns Apple's A5 In First Benchmarks

"NVIDIA's new Tegra 3 SoC (System on a Chip) has recently been released for performance reviews in the Asus Eee Pad Transformer Prime Android tablet. Tegra 3 is comprised of a quad-core primary CPU complex with a 5th companion core for lower-end processing requirements and power management. The chip can scale up to 1.4GHz on a single core and 1.3GHz on up to four of its cores, while the companion core operates at 500MHz. It makes for a fairly impressive new tablet platform and offers performance that bests Apple's A5 dual-core processor in more than a few tests. The Asus Eee Pad Transformer Prime with optional keyboard dock and NVIDIA's Tegra 3 is set to be available in volume sometime around December 19th."

More about the actual chip.
http://www.nvidia.com/object/tegra-superchip.html