From InfoWorld: In the rush to exascale computing, Intel is making a small change that could have a big impact on system design with its upcoming Xeon Phi chip.

Intel on Tuesday promised big performance and power improvements with the redesigned chip, code-named Knights Landing, which analysts said...

From DailyTech: Nokia Oyj. (HEX:NOK1V) shareholders voted this week in an overwhelming 99.7 vote among the roughly 80 percent of shareholders who voted to approve of a two-component, $7.4B USD deal to sell or license certain assets to Microsoft Corp. (MSFT).

The Financial Times -- a Pearson PLC...

From X-bit Labs: Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. (SCEI) late last week launched its next generation game console, PlayStation 4 (PS4), in North America. Thanks to a lineup of competitive games, maximum interest from both game developers and end-users, the company managed to sell a record one...

From EETimes: Nvidia and Micron announced new high-end co-processors at the opening of Supercomputing 2013 today. Meanwhile, an online analysis said the next generation of Intel's Xeon Phi, which competes with them both, will be an integrated device.

Supercomputers have become a key testing ground...

From InfoWorld: Mozilla on Monday began rolling out its first major Firefox user interface (UI) change in more than three years, seeding early adopters of the "Nightly" build with the new "Australis" revamp.

Nightly builds are designed for preliminary testing, and as the name implies, are...

From DailyTech: Taiwanese electronics OEM ASUSTek Computer Inc. (TPE:2357) in Q2 and Q3 2012 was roughly tied for the world's fastest growing PC maker, according to the Interactive Data Corp. (IDC). Now its seen that streak of success collapse as poor sales of Windows 8 PCs catch up to it.

As a...

From X-bit Labs: Micron Technology, one of the world's leading makers of computer memory, on Monday announced the development of a fundamentally new computing architecture capable of performing high-speed, comprehensive search and analysis of complex, unstructured data streams. Micron's Automata...

From InfoWorld: Facebook changed its privacy policies on Friday, but unlike previous overhauls, there's not much to rage about this time.

No, companies aren't using your photos to sell products. Yes, if you like a brand, that information will show up in your friends' feeds, on your Timeline, and in...

From PC World: Nvidia wants to help create some of the world's fastest computers with its latest Tesla K40 graphics chip, which is its fastest supercomputing co-processor to date.

The Tesla K40 graphics processor delivers 1.43 teraflops of performance, which is roughly 20 percent faster than its...

From DailyTech: Dell's latest bid for some tablet market respect kicked off a little early the last couple weeks. Look at various sites who reported on the initial October product announcement, one major missing piece of info was exactly when Dell's new 8-inch budget Venue 8 tablet was supposed to...