From InfoWorld: A proposal currently floating in the Java community would use hardware acceleration to improve bulk calculations in the platform.
Project Trinity would explore enhancing execution of bulk aggregate calculations over Streams by offloading calculations to hardware accelerators...
From PC World: Apple’s Mac Pro has been ignored for so long that even Windows 10 mobile workstations are catching up on features and performance.
Take HP’s latest Zbook laptop workstations, which were announced on Friday. These heavy built laptops—which is why they are called mobile workstations...
What is power? My favorite definition, according to Dictionary.com, is the "ability to do or act; capability of doing or accomplishing something." A lot of times, people in a group setting like to define themselves by showing their power largely through trivial means, like deciding where to go for lunch or what equipment to buy for your next corporate project. However, real power does not come from these meaningless symbolic acts. In my opinion...
As you may have read in the forums, a couple of us have swapped to a new phone carrier including myself. After being with the Telus sub-brand, Koodo, for about two and a half years, I decided it was time to move on. Personally, I have never had much loyalty with any of the telecommunication companies. I have been with Bell, Rogers, and Telus all at different times, and only now am I technically going back to Rogers. However, I decided to do an...
From InfoWorld: When Microsoft launched Office 365 in 2010, Microsoft officials said then that customers were asking to move to the cloud. Beginning in 2020, some Office customers will need to buy an Office 365 subscription to do so.
In an update to Microsoft’s Office 365 system requirements...
From PC World: When Nvidia announced that a new generation of GeForce GTX 1080 and GTX 1060 cards were on the horizon with faster memory, we assumed that graphics cards makers would offer the step-up models at step-up pricing. Not EVGA.
On Thursday, EVGA launched new revisions of its $590 GeForce...
From CNET: Samsung is making Google the go-to source for music on its new phones, and it's throwing in some free perks for new buyers.
With the launch of the Samsung's Galaxy S8 and S8 Plus Friday, Google's streaming-tunes service Play Music will be the default player and service on new Samsung...
From CNET: HTC wants U in May. The Taiwanese smartphone manufacturer is set to reveal a new phone with what looks like an intriguing new way of controlling it.
HTC today sent an invitation for 16 May that will span Taipei, New York and London. The tagline reads "Squeeze for the Brilliant U", and an...
From InfoWorld: Just as the enterprise takes another swing at figuring out how to help employees work better together, Facebook continues its push to entice companies to adopt its collaboration service.
During the company's annual F8 developer conference in San Jose, Calif. yesterday, Facebook...
From CNET: Using our hands and fingers can be so tiresome. Wouldn't it be great to just, you know, tell everything around us to do our bidding?
That's what Apple, Amazon, Google, Microsoft and even Samsung hope Siri, Alexa, Assistant, Cortana and Bixby (in that order) will ultimately achieve. It's...
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