From PC World: Amazon has a new roster of Echo and Fire TV devices, and it wants you to join in the smart-home madness with a special bundle. Right now, you can get last year's Fire TV with the Alexa Voice Remote and the second generation Echo Dot for $60. That's $30 cheaper than it would usually...

From ExtremeTech: Intel’s latest Core i9-7980XE is a monster CPU and the fastest core you can buy in the consumer space today (for an extremely specific and well-heeled definition of ‘consumer,’ anyway). As with all high core count CPUs, however, Intel had to compromise on clock speeds. The all-core...

From PC Mag: The border we see around the displays on smartphones today are due to the design of the LCD panels they use. The borders are required to hide the screen connectors and other wiring that allow the display to function. However, next year those borders are expected to disappear, with the...

From ExtremeTech: One of the topics we’ve repeatedly returned to here at ExtremeTech is the state of Moore’s Law and its long-term future. Our conclusions have often been at odds with public statements by semiconductor designers and the foundries that build their hardware. Intel, for example, is...

From CNET: Paul Horner, a leading peddler of fake news and internet hoaxes during the 2016 election, has died at the age of 38.

Horner was discovered dead in his bed on Sept. 18, Maricopa County Sheriff's Office spokesman Mark Casey said in a statement Wednesday. Casey said evidence found at the...

From ExtremeTech: Intel’s Coffee Lake refresh represents the largest performance refresh we’ve seen from the company since the Sandy Bridge era. While the benefits will primarily impact users who run multi-threaded workloads, many programs these days support four or more threads. Even when...

From ExtremeTech: There’s been a huge surge of interest in topics like AI, machine learning, and deep learning over the last few years. Thus far, we’ve seen much of the market flow towards either GPUs (almost entirely Nvidia, though AMD might be tipping a toe into those waters), or to specialized...

From PC Mag: "It's staying," Twitter chief Jack Dorsey said last year of the platform's 140-character limit. Well, it appears the company has had a change of heart, as it's now testing a 280-character limit.

The expanded tweet format is "only available to a small group right now," according to...

From eWeek: Cisco Systems revealed late Sept. 26 that it is trimming about 310 jobs at its sprawling San Jose, Calif. headquarters.

The company employs more than 73,000 employees worldwide, so the layoffs represent less than half of 1 percent of the entire head count.

Cisco, the world's largest...

From The Verge: It’s a day of Echo speakers: Amazon just announced a new Echo Plus speaker, in addition to a second-generation Echo and Echo Connect speaker phone.

The new Echo Plus is set apart, though: its abilities double as a smart home hub, one that connects to various wireless protocols to...