StarCraft: Remastered arrives August 14 for $15

From CNET: StarCraft, the legendary strategy game, was recently made totally free to play in its mostly original form.

But if you want to experience StarCraft in all its glory on a modern PC (or Mac), you'll want to consider StarCraft: Remastered.

Blizzard has just announced that the new version...

Microsoft to acquire cloud management company Cloudyn

From CNET: Microsoft will acquire Israeli cloud-management tool company Cloudyn, the software giant said Thursday in a blog post.

While Microsoft did not disclose Cloudyn's price tag, it said the acquisition fits in with its efforts in cloud-based services for businesses. Cloudyn's tools already...

AMD quietly reveals Ryzen 3 chip details with Ryzen Pro's launch

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...

Nvidia's new TensorRT speeds machine learning predictions

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...

Amazon Prime Day returns July 11 to take all your money

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...

New wearables boast always-on tracking that lasts a week

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...

Windows Server gets aboard the fast train

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...

Qualcomm's Snapdragon 450 makes $200 phones faster, last longer

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...

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