From CNET: T-Mobile wants to take the lead in 5G -- even if it's not the kind of 5G that you're expecting to get.
The nation's third-largest carrier on Tuesday unveiled plans to build out its next-generation wireless network using the radio airwaves it purchased in the recent government auction...
From PC World: A Google effort to push websites to implement encryption is expanding. Starting in October, the company will roll out new warnings to flag HTTP connections as insecure in its Chrome browser.
For users, it means Chrome will display the words “not secure” in the browser’s address bar...
From InfoWorld: Google is now offering a software development kit for its Google Assistant platform so that developers can build hardware prototypes that use the technology.
The SDK enables developers to create devices that allow users to talk to them and get questions answered. Still in a preview...
From PC World: When the Pixel came out last year, it was a clear departure from the Nexus program. With a Google logo stamped on the back, the phones weren’t just crafted around the purest vision for Android, they gave us hope that we would finally have a phone that received years of updates...
I recently submitted a paper to an academic journal for peer review. After about a month, I got an email from the editor with the decisions and recommendations. Although a typical submission to a journal of this caliber gets looked at by three to five experts in the field, my paper was reviewed by only two people, to which both had completely opposite opinions. The first reviewer absolutely hated it; claiming my work had no novelty and no value...
I have often been asked what I do now that I am out of school, and my response is that I have been working for Calgary Scientific. In case you are not aware, CS is a software development company, with applications based mainly in the healthcare industry. Most of my work as a software developer has been on the HTML5 client, with some bits and pieces of work on our iOS app. Other teams take up the server-side work, though I too have worked here. Of...
From PC World: Intel is forecasting a "slight decline" in its premium chip prices for the remainder of the year, and AMD's Ryzen chips could have played a part in that.
Prices of Intel's chips in both desktops and laptops went up in the first quarter. That helped drive up the quarterly revenue for...
From InfoWorld: Microsoft continues to shoot itself in the foot with buggy detection software, no documentation, and an infernal drive to block Windows Update on seemingly random machines. Now, some older Intel and AMD processors are unexpectedly getting the blockade treatment.
The carnage started...
From CNET: Hot on the heels of discontinuing its wildly popular NES Classic mini gaming console and reporting hot sales for the Swift console, Nintendo on Thursday unveiled the 2DS XL. The new portable gaming system features a clamshell design and the same size screen found on Nintendo's new 3DS XL...
From PC World: AMD's Ryzen power management plan that aims to improve gaming performance for AMD's new processors is now available as part of a chipset driver update. AMD released chipset driver 17.10 WHQL on Wednesday. The new drivers include the AMD Balanced Power Plan, which first became...
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