On my recent road trip to Seattle, my friends and I had a one-night stop in Spokane, Washington, in order to give our driver a break. We visited a local park, where hordes of people were gathered around. At first, it seemed nice to see other people out and about. However, on closer inspection, we realized everyone was on their phones playing the latest mobile game, Pokémon Go. One of my friends, who is more of a traditionalist when it comes to...
From InfoWorld: Hardware experts believed the last DRAM would be the current DDR4, but that's not the case, with DDR5 memory now under development.
Specifications for DDR5 memory will be released this year, and deployment of the DRAM will begin in 2020, according to a slide deck presented at the...
From CNET: Intel's long-running but largely unsuccessful effort to transform how you plug devices into your PC will make significant progress this year, the chipmaker predicts.
Intel has promoted Thunderbolt for years with few signs of mainstream success. At this week's Intel Developer Forum...
From PC World: Microsoft just open-sourced PowerShell, making it available for both Linux and Mac. The command-line shell and scripting platform is just the latest open-source friendly software from Microsoft.
All the “Microsoft loves Linux” talk can be a tad misleading. Microsoft definitely won’t...
From CNET: A federal judge on Thursday rejected the proposed settlement of a class action lawsuit that claimed Uber misclassifies its drivers.
US District Court Judge Edward Chen for the Northern District of California ruled that Uber's settlement offer, in which it would have paid $100 million to...
From InfoWorld: Intel has pulled open the curtain on a secretly developed mega-chip called Knights Mill, a key component in its artificial-intelligence strategy.
The chip -- which belongs to the family of high-performance Xeon Phi processors -- gives Intel a legitimate opportunity to tackle machine...
From CNET: Peter Zhai, President of Huawei India Consumer Business Group, said on Thursday that the company will soon begin manufacturing phones in the country, The Economic Times reports.
For Huawei, the world's third largest smartphone brand according to IDC research, manufacturing devices in the...
From PC World: AMD on Thursday finally unveiled its new Zen microarchitecture, with a pair of CPUs that could put the company back into the fight with Intel’s best.
AMD said its Summit Ridge CPU, aimed at high-performance desktops, will pack 8 cores and feature simultaneous multi-threading...
From CNET: Laser light has made its way into a new product line Intel expects will speed up the data centers at the heart of online services like Google search and Facebook social networking.
After years of research, the chipmaker has begun selling a product using a technology called silicon...
I remember when I was young, my first step of learning how to use a computer was typing practice. I spent hundreds of hours adapting myself to typing without looking at the keyboard. At that time, my computer entrance level course was almost equivalent with the learning of how to use a typewriter, which sounds less exciting in a certain way. However, after much later, when I entered university and sat in the classroom of the first year...
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