Nvidia's Pascal-powered Jetson TX2 computer blows away Raspberry Pi

From PC World: The Raspberry Pi may be the most widely known board computer being sold, but Nvidia's Jetson TX2 is one of the fastest.

The Jetson TX2, unveiled Tuesday, is a full Linux computer on a tiny board the size of a Raspberry Pi. It's designed to help make robots, drones and other devices...

Firefox 52 bans plug-ins, supports 'game changer' standard

From InfoWorld: Mozilla today updated Firefox to version 52, which warns users when they put passwords into non-encrypted websites, bars all plug-ins other than Adobe’s Flash Player and adds support for an under-consideration technology standard that claims to run web apps at nearly the same speed...

Extreme will buy Avaya's networking business for $100 million

From PC World: Avaya has found a buyer for its networking business: Extreme Networks will buy the division for about US$100 million as part of Avaya’s bankruptcy process.

The venerable enterprise voice, collaboration and networking company filed for bankruptcy in January and said it would shift its...

Amazon Prime ships off to Mexico

From CNET: Amazon's hugely popular Prime membership service launched Tuesday in Mexico.

Mexican Prime subscribers can now get unlimited shipping on over 20 million products, as well as Amazon's Prime Video streaming service.

The price of the service is 899 pesos (about $46) a year, but for the...

AMD hopes to break Intel server dominance with new 32-core Naples chip

From InfoWorld: The outspoken Forrest Norrod has never shied away from challenges. Previously, as a server chief at Dell, he helped the company’s data-center hardware business flourish, and he loved experimenting with new types of servers.

He has a new challenge as AMD’s server chief: to bring back...

CA to acquire security testing firm Veracode for $614M

From PC World: CA Technologies is acquiring application security testing company Veracode for US$614 million in cash, in a bid to broaden its development and testing offering for enterprises and app developers.

The acquisition is expected to be completed by the second quarter of this year...

IBM-Salesforce deal will bring Watson data into applications

From InfoWorld: Watson and Einstein are teaming up, and IBM and Salesforce hope the pairing proves as smart as it sounds. The two companies are working together to bring information from IBM systems into Salesforce’s products through a series of integrations announced Monday.

As part of the...

At last: Windows 10 will stop forced automatic updates

From CNET: In a stunning about-face -- and a victory for common sense -- Windows 10 will no longer automatically take control of your computer, and flip the reset switch, at the worst moments imaginable.

Mind you, Microsoft will still push updates, and it won't necessarily be easy to completely...

Google faces new antitrust investigation in Turkey

From PC World: Antitrust concerns about Google's tying of its app store and services to use of the Android OS are spreading, as Turkey's Competition Board has opened an inquiry, reversing an earlier decision.

Russian search company Yandex filed a complaint with the board in 2015, alleging that...

IBM's new Q program will include a 50-qubit quantum computer

From InfoWorld: Characters named Q in film and TV have been portrayed as being exceptional. Q in the James Bond movies served up futuristic gadgets, and Q in Star Trek was omnipotent.

A new quantum computing program called Q at IBM will be remarkable in its own right. In a few years, IBM plans to...

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