From AnandTech: AMD on Thursday announced that it would be added to the NASDAQ 100 index of non-financial companies next week. The chip company will be added to the list due to its increased market capitalization, which is a result of successful launches of its Ryzen and EPYC processors as well as a...

From QNAP Press Release: QNAP Systems, Inc. (QNAP) today launched the Intel Xeon E based TS-x83XU enterprise NAS series with ECC DDR4 memory that delivers server-class performance and dependable reliability. All models in the series feature two 10GbE SFP+ ports using Mellanox ConnectX-4 Lx SmartNIC...

From CNET: Digital photography has changed a lot over the past two decades, with clunky DSLRs giving way to sleek smartphones. Over the next 10 years, expect a similar evolution as the science behind the art changes.

Much of the technology in use today represents the breakthroughs of the first...

From Tom's Hardware: The Gigabyte Z390 Aorus Xtreme WaterForce is an E-ATX motherboard carved from an eight-layer 2x copper PCB (printed circuit board). It comes with an over-the-top 16-phase digital power delivery subsytem for overclocking the latest 8th- and 9th-generation Intel Core processors...

From ExtremeTech When Nvidia launched the RTX family, it purposefully confined itself to the top three GPUs in the stack: the RTX 2070, 2080, and 2080 Ti. The company focused on refreshing the top of its product mix and on pushing new GPUs at higher price points into the market rather than launching...

From Forbes: Depending on what you're reading, Huawei has either had a banner or nightmare year. If you follow consumer tech, you might have read all the rave reviews for Huawei's 2018 flagship phones and laptop, and all the internal sales goal the Chinese tech giant is surpassing. If you follow...

From TechCrunch: Google announced today it’s now using mobile-first indexing for over half the web pages shown in its search results globally – a significant milestone in Google’s move to favor mobile sites over desktop sites in its search results.

The plans for the project have been in the works...

From CNET: In an attempt to improve what can be a spotty experience for users of its GeForce Now cloud gaming service for PC and Mac, Nvidia's launching a "recommended router" program with gaming router makers.

The aim is to embed optimized quality-of-service settings for GFN in the device's...

From Forbes: The best iPhone leaks this year have come directly from Apple - and on too many occasions for it to be a coincidence. Now, with stalling iPhone sales resulting in significant price cuts and legal battles pushing legally motivated iOS updates, Apple is at it again changing the narrative...

From PC Mag: NASA servers were compromised in October, Bob Gibbs, Assistant Administrator for NASA's Office of the Chief Human Capital Officer, announced in a Tuesday memo to employees.

As SpaceRef reports, the NASA server compromise happened on Oct. 23 and the servers targeted contained personally...