Two weeks ago, I received my Iron Ring, signaling the beginning of my career as an engineer. However, it did not really mean a whole lot to me yet, especially as I still have a month of school to go. While the ceremony itself was interesting itself, since then, I have found it hard to actually remove the ring from my hand. No, this is not like a "Lord of the Rings" ring to rule them all, especially everyone else there received a ring like mine...
From PC World: Every time Intel announces new Xeon chips, server makers waste no time in announcing new products to take advantage.
Lenovo, Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Dell have announced faster servers with Intel's new Xeon E5-2600 v4 chips based on the Broadwell architecture. The chips have...
From CNET: We're finally getting a clearer picture of whether people are giving BlackBerry another chance. And things don't look good.
BlackBerry said Friday that it sold 600,000 phones in its fiscal fourth quarter, well below Wall Street's expectations of 850,000 and also below the 700,000 units...
From ComputerWorld: Virtual reality is poised to change PC configurations, and Dell is packing serious horsepower into its new Precision desktops as a way for users to view and create VR content.
The desktops will be equipped with high-end graphics cards and Intel's new Xeon E5-2600 v4 chips...
From PC World: Well, now we know why Microsoft’s Windows Phone didn’t appear at Microsoft’s Build keynote on Wednesday: it simply isn’t on Microsoft’s radar screen at the moment. The question, of course, is whether it will ever be again.
“We’re going to do some cool things with phones, but this...
From CNET: At its Build conference in San Francisco on Wednesday, Microsoft outlined the ways in which it would speed up the development of the Web browser introduced with Windows 10 last year. High on the list is the introduction of a built-in ad blocker.
In a chart laying out future features for...
From InfoWorld: Microsoft's Linux love affair continued at the company's annual Build keynote on Monday, with the revelation that popular Linux command-line tool Bash is coming to Windows 10. Whoa.
And no, it's not running in a virtual machine or emulator. Microsoft partnered with Canonical, the...
From ComputerWorld: When Microsoft kicks off its annual developers conference Wednesday, it must show it has made progress on 2015's promises, analysts said today.
"They have to demonstrate that they're building momentum from both user and developer perspectives," said Jan Dawson, chief analyst at...
From PC World: Foxconn, the faceless contractor that assembles many Apple products, is moving up the manufacturing stack with an acquisition that will give it a global consumer brand.
After years of negotiation, it has finally sealed its on-again, off-again deal to buy troubled Japanese components...
From CNET: Google is adding home phone service to a bundle of services that also includes ultra fast broadband.
On Tuesday, the company announced Fiber Phone, a service that will be sold alongside its 1Gbps broadband service and its video offering in cities where Google has deployed its all-fiber...
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