As someone who is in their first year of being in the working world, I think it is important to set a reputation around the office for who you are. Personally, I aim for positive traits such as being helpful, knowledgeable, and a hard worker. On the other hand, there are more neutral traits, and recently I have been labelled as the bad punner. A few weeks back, several of my co-workers went out for a lunch. While we were waiting for our lunch to...
Every time a school term begins, my professor always asks us to keep one thing in mind: If you fail to plan, then you plan to fail. As required by our professor, all the graduate students in our research team have to make very detailed research plans at the beginning of a term. Even though it takes some extra work, the results turn out to be good for everybody. Actually, we all have some sort of good contributions at the end of term. Making a...
From InfoWorld: No Intel chip has ever been as expensive as the new Xeon E7-8894 v4 server processor.
The $8,898 Xeon chip has massive horsepower with 24 cores, 60MB of cache and a maximum clock frequency of 3.4GHz. Intel said this is the company's fastest server chip, breaking enterprise...
From PC World: Upgrading CPU performance hasn’t been a priority for Intel in many years, but that could be changing.
Intel’s upcoming Cannonlake chips will deliver a performance improvement of more than 15 percent compared to its Kaby Lake chips, said Venkata Renduchintala, president of the Intel...
From CNET: The online site that lets gamers broadcast their sessions launched a new directory Thursday called Communities, which lets them find the games and topics they're interested in.
Users can form specific groups around such popular topics as speedrunning, e-sports and cosplay, as well as...
From InfoWorld: Microsoft wants to help its cloud customers feel better protected from intellectual property lawsuit threats. To that end, the company is launching a new feature that’s designed to give them additional shielding.
The Azure IP Advantage program (the IP stands for intellectual...
From PC World: Oracle has informed a federal court that it is settling a lawsuit in which a former employee had charged that she had been terminated from her job for refusing to go along with accounting principles that she did not consider lawful.
In a joint submission Wednesday to the U.S...
From CNET: If you were planning to use your Nintendo Switch to surf the web when it comes out March 3, you're out of luck.
The Switch won't have an internet browser upon launch, Nintendo's president, Tatsumi Kimishima, revealed in an interview with Time this week.
"In terms of the internet browser...
From PC World: An AMD Athlon or Sempron chip may not drum as much excitement as Ryzen, but loyalty has helped those brands stick around for more than a decade.
So what happens to those and other PC processors, like the A-series and FX, when AMD's new Ryzen chips start flooding the market in March...
From InfoWorld: A flaw in an old Intel chip could crash servers and networking equipment, and the chipmaker is working to fix the issue.
The issue is in the Atom C2000 chips, which started shipping in 2013. The problem was first reported by The Register.
In January, Intel added an erratum to the...
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