From PC World: Just in time for the long Fourth of July weekend, Google has announced a massive sale in the Play Store. Whether you’re looking to veg out, rock out, or work out, you can score some pretty big savings, but you need to act fast.

If you don’t want to brave the crowds at the theaters...

From PC World: Today, AMD’s disruptive Ryzen processors stepped out of the mainstream and into the business world with the announcemnt of Ryzen Pro chips loaded with enterprise-friendly features. But the soft launch revealed interesting information for enthusiasts, too: Hard details about AMD’s yet...

From InfoWorld: Nvidia has released a new version of TensorRT, a runtime system for serving inferences using deep learning models through Nvidia’s own GPUs.

Inferences, or predictions made from a trained model, can be served from either CPUs or GPUs. Serving inferences from GPUs is part of Nvidia’s...

From PC World: It’s damned near impossible to buy a reasonably priced graphics card right now. First AMD’s Radeon cards disappeared, then GeForce cards began to dry up too. The culprit? Cryptocurrency miners chasing price bubbles in Etherium, Zcash, et cetera. But new mining-dedicated graphics cards...

From CNET: In case you didn't already buy too much stuff on Amazon, here's another excuse.

The e-commerce titan said Wednesday its third annual Prime Day will be July 11. The sales day will include hundreds of thousands of deals worldwide and run for 30 hours, starting at 6 p.m. Pacific Time on...

From CNET: The idea of tracking kids or older loved ones with a wearable band isn't new, but the devices out there don't have great battery life.

Qualcomm's new Snapdragon Wear 1200 chips aim to fix some of these problems by riding a middle ground between high-end smartwatch and regular fitness...

From ComputerWorld: Microsoft must prove that it's able to meet a faster Windows Server release schedule, an analyst said.

"We'll see if they can stick to it," said Jim Gaynor of Directions on Microsoft, about the changes to Windows Server's tempo. "At this point it's aspirational."

Two weeks ago...

From CNET: Having shrunk the gap between premium and midrange phones, Qualcomm now wants to work on making budget phones snappier.

It plans on doing that with the new Qualcomm Snapdragon 450 octa-core chips. Built on a 14nm process, these new chips offer a load of performance improvements over its...

From PC World: Google abused its dominant position in the search engine market to illegally promote its comparison shopping service, the European Union's top antitrust authority ruled Tuesday, slapping the company with a €2.42 billion ($2.72 billion) fine.

The consequence could be still greater...

From InfoWorld: Native mobile apps have generally had the edge when it comes to user experience over web-based apps. But the tide is turning, with progressive web apps — a technology spearheaded by Google and Mozilla—catching on at major web properties and developer tools becoming available.

“We’re...