A few months ago, I was heading out with a couple of friends after church for lunch. Right before leaving, we decided we would be going to a pizza place called Famoso's with six other people. My friend and I were the first to arrive at the place, so we called out a table for eight. We sat down at the bench and waited a few minutes. The few minutes quickly turned into fifteen minutes, yet no one showed up. I tried calling the other people, but no...
From CNET: Samsung this week showed off new display technology that looks kind of like a trampoline. The 9.1-inch stretchable OLED display prototype, which Samsung called the first of its kind, can be flexed in two directions, unlike conventional flexible OLED displays that can be formed in only one...
From InfoWorld: Microsoft is positioning its P language as a solution for asynchrony in a world where this capability is becoming increasingly vital for the cloud, artificial intelligence, and embedded systems.
Geared to asynchronous event-driven programming, the open source P unifies modeling and...
From PC World: Maybe it’s time to start paying attention to Microsoft’s livestreaming play. After acquiring fledgling service Beam last August, then integrating Beam into Windows 10 and the Xbox One, today Microsoft announced a whole raft of changes to make the service more appealing—starting with a...
From CNET: We first got a glimpse of the Nitro 5 at the Acer press conference last month, and Acer is leaning heavy on "modern titles at a mainstream price." Designed in different configurations to hit a variety of needs for casual gamers, the Nitro 5 will start at $799 in July (converting to around...
From PC World: Computex kicks off in Taipei next week, and it’s there that we’ll see the first liquid-cooled power supply for PCs in a long time: FSP’s wild Hydro PTM+.
This power supply sounds like an impressive little unit. Not only is the Hydro PTM+ compatible with custom liquid-cooling setups...
From CNET: Japanese tech giant SoftBank has reportedly taken a big stake in one of the hottest US tech stocks.
SoftBank bought $4 billion worth of shares in Santa Clara, California-based chipmaker Nvidia, Bloomberg reported Tuesday, citing people familiar with the situation. That amount would make...
From InfoWorld: Right now, the market for GPUs for use in machine learning is essentially a market of one: Nvidia.
AMD, the only other major discrete GPU vendor of consequence, holds around 30 percent of the market for total GPU sales compared to Nvidia’s 70 percent. For machine-learning work...
From CNET: If you're ready to dive into creating 360-degree photos and video, Samsung has a new camera to sell you and you don't even have to have one of its phones this time around.
Available starting Thursday, May 25, the 2017 Gear 360 will sell for $230 -- more than $100 less than the bigger...
From PC World: Late last week, TechHive received a tip about a mysterious streaming device called the Evolve, built by LG and bearing a Dish Network trademark.
It turns out this device is not a satellite-streaming hybrid for living rooms, but an Android TV box for the hotel industry: a set-back box...
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