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Old lady surfing Web at 40 gigabits-per-second

She is a latecomer to the information superhighway, but 75-year-old Sigbritt Lothberg is now cruising the Internet with a dizzying speed.

Lothberg's 40 gigabits-per-second fiber-optic connection in Karlstad is believed to be the fastest residential uplink in the world, Karlstad city officials said.

In less than 2 seconds, Lothberg can download a full-length movie on her home computer -- many thousand times faster than most residential connections, said Hafsteinn Jonsson, head of the Karlstad city network unit.

JIN KAZAMA6883d ago

thats lightning spped. Imagine that being in every home. PLayng online would be lag freee!! Well, not for the 360 though...haha j/k.

Dragonopolis6883d ago

A lot of people just don't like to clutter their hard drive with movies or hook their computer to their TV. Why not just burn straight to discs. Yes Drives are getting bigger in storage sizes that doesn't always mean better. For instance, there could be a drive that is only 500GB but is faster and less money (not necessarily cheap per byte - we are talk price tag). PC gamers especially will look at the speed of the drive first then the storage size. Download Movies keep them of your drive and you can easily move them from a computer to another or a Blu-ray movie drive without worrying about running a Network or Connecting directly to a TV that might not be in a very convenient location.

Discs/Flash drives will be still be here a long while.

Captain Tuttle6882d ago (Edited 6882d ago )

You're right for today. What I'm thinking about is maybe 7-10 years out. Your big HDTV has a hard drive in it, maybe 50 terrabytes or something. All you have is an optical cable running into the TV...no component, no HDMI etc. Everything goes into your TV.

Or maybe you can belong to one of those online data storage places. I heard an interview on NPR the other day and this guy said there's a website with unlimited data storage for $5/month or something. All the movies and games that you buy and TV shows that you Tivo would be stored there. Then you could access them anytime you'd want to. 2 Seconds to download onto the TV's hard drive and your good to go. Hell, you wouldn't even need a video game console...Sony could make their TV's with SIXAXIS support...press a button and go into video game mode and it would look exactly like your PS3(4?) interface. No wires, no clutter, no clunky pieces of equipment. I'm telling you, this is the way it's going to pan out. Consoles and formats are going to be obsolete.

Of course this all depends on fiber optic being run to every house but that's not far off...I already have it. Now if Verizon would buy this new technology they could get the ball rolling.

nirwanda6882d ago

you wouldn't need a hardrive everything would stream at those speeds you couldn't even write to the hardrive at that speed all you would fill the ps3/360 memory in 0.01 of a second provided you had the system bandwidth why would anyone use a disk when it would be quicker not to.

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jared817996883d ago

what i wouldnt give for that kinda width

Syko6883d ago

I agree, I think length is important too however. ;)

PS360PCROCKS6883d ago

syko if I didn't already give you a bubble up today that comment right their would have earned another one...

X6883d ago

I wonder how much the bill is going to be

Azurite6883d ago

She's getting it for free I believe.

DG6883d ago

How much did it cost to set up? is the question.

risk6883d ago

just for the sake of comparison, most company's pay 399-499$/month for T1...and this is OC3. Cost of operation would be atleast $1000-1500/month.

Sashy6883d ago

Thats in sweeden where I live, but not in Karlstad. Sweeden is like most hitech in broadband.

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Top Racers Need Top Gear – Introducing the Forza Horizon 6 Limited Edition Controller and Headset

Omar writes: "With the Horizon Festival coming to breathtaking Japan, you’ll need the essential gear to prove you’ve got what it takes to become a Horizon Legend as you cruise, drift and explore an open world full of spectacular driving experiences. That’s why we’re happy to announce the newest Limited Edition Xbox Wireless Controller and Wireless Headset collection, featuring inspired designs from Forza Horizon 6. The bright cyan and lime colorways celebrate the Horizon Festival’s recognition of iconic cars and hit music, with special features that are sure to impress any collector."

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Killer2020UK33d ago

Oh my, that is one gaudy design

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"It's Just So Lame" - RTGI Modder Thinks DLSS 5 Is Impressive But Shares AI Slop Sentiment

Pascal Gilcher calls DLSS 5 impressive but shares the "AI slop" sentiment, explaining the likely tech behind it and why he dislikes it.

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CrimsonWing6959d ago

I fail to see how this is AI shhhhlllloooop. Looking at the different games they showed, this has made many of them look far better.

isarai_lee59d ago (Edited 59d ago )

It's AI slop because it ignores the artists intent and changes the details ESPECIALLY when it comes to character faces. The scariest part of it is introducing it as the next stage of DLSS, a feature where the current iteration already has controversy surrounding it and for quite a lot of games cannot be fully disabled. So reasonably the precident is already set for what path this could take, and it's not good

blacktiger59d ago

In case you didn't watch the video then let me point just one part. It overrides the lighting. Then the question of what is the point of ray tracing cost and so on. Many of the lighting deletes shadow, including shadow on the face like eyes even chin.

Chard59d ago

Why stop at art when it comes to human input - why not just have AI play the game for us, remove human input altogether

theshizer59d ago

If you don’t like it, just don’t enable it. Personally I think it looks great from the videos I have seen.

isarai_lee59d ago

And what about when you can't? Cause there's plenty of games where you cannot fully disable dlss already, i mean we're well into an era where it's a major crutch for developers to cover up their cut corners, why would this be any different?

blacktiger59d ago

You are playing with people's money and allow Nvidia to scam you.

In case you didn't watch the video then let me point just one part. It overrides the lighting. Then the question of what is the point of ray tracing cost. This is all lie to raise the cost of the graphic card.

Andrew33659d ago

Making characters look more realistic not ok because we want the developer to decide on how the game was intended to look. - Internet

Change entire game through mods thus changing how the developers intended the game to be is ok. - Internet

isarai_lee59d ago

Something consumers can do to a product after they have purchased it, entirely optional and can always be undone with a fresh install

VS

The leading gaming hardware manufacturer making this the next iteration of the main AA/Upscaling technique that is heavily relied upod by modern devs and is not optional in most games.

Not at all the same but nice try

jwillj2k459d ago

At the moment you need 2 5090’s just to get an image on the screen so this is all vaporware until proven otherwise.

Andrew33659d ago

The good news is you can just not use it as well.

Christopher59d ago

It's all about choice in the end. But, I would say that calling it 'more realistic' is quite a stretch. It looks like AI art, and that's rarely realistic.

Urrakia3459d ago

All the comments I see are reminding me of how we got to the current state of gaming when microtransactions were first introduced: "It's completely optional guys, we promise! If you don't like it just don't buy it!"

I think we all know how that ended up.

Popsicle59d ago (Edited 59d ago )

I had the same exact thought the first time this was brought up in a separate article about a week ago. Took me straight back to the conversations surrounding “horse armor.” Just don’t buy it they said. Years later, many IPs I previously enjoyed are so infected with monetization schemes that I don’t even consider purchasing them anymore.

DLSS 5 and the like are the same thing wrapped in a different package. History rhymes but many of us never learn from it.

blacktiger59d ago

Biggest Scam. Overrides lighting and shadow. So why keep Ray tracing? It's all a scam to raise graphic card. We now see Nvidia with Microsoft downturn anything against them. Sony is next!