From InfoWorld: Google yesterday switched on a feature in the Chrome beta that it said would save notebook battery power by freezing some content rendered using Adobe's Flash Player.

The option, now turned on by default in the beta -- one of three "channels" Chrome maintains -- will be...

From InfoWorld: A strand of human DNA is 2.5 nanometers in diameter, and there are 25,400,000 nanometers in one inch.

Now consider this, Micron this week announced it's producing NAND flash based on transistors only 16-nanometers in size, and each microscopic cell is capable of storing three bits...

From PC World: Acer couldn’t keep the mystery around the launch of its highly-anticipated Acer Predator 8-inch gaming tablet bottled up for too long.

The tablet could launch sometime in September, with a big event planned for Europe, said a representative at the Acer booth on the Computex show...

From CNET: Twelve years ago, with the launch of the iTunes music store, Apple changed how we purchase and listen to music. Now it hopes to shake things up again -- despite playing catchup this time around.

Apple is expected to debut a subscription streaming-music service, making it one of the...

From InfoWorld: Cisco this week announced intentions to acquire Piston Cloud Computing, its second OpenStack cloud computing buyout in less than a year.

Terms were not disclosed.

Piston Cloud was founded by Josh McKenty, the lead architect of NASA's cloud platform, which spun off into the open...

From PC World: Acer is still producing PCs, but the Taiwanese vendor is far more bullish about the Internet of Things (IoT), a market the company doesn’t want to miss out on.

On Thursday, the Taiwanese vendor held a news conference not for a new consumer product, but to promote an upcoming...

From CNET: Customers around the world will have more ways to get their hands -- or wrists -- on Apple Watch in the coming weeks.

Apple Watch will be available in Apple's brick-and-mortar retail stores in two weeks, the company announced on Thursday, ending months of speculation on when it'll...

From CNET: Consumers who purchased Beats Pill XL speakers from Apple are being asked to stop using them due to a potential fire hazard.

On Wednesday, Apple announced a voluntary recall of the speakers, complete with refunds to customers who bought them. The company said it determined that in rare...

From ComputerWorld: Gamers, buckle up: AMD will launch its highly anticipated graphics processing unit, code-named Fiji, on June 16 at the E3 conference.

Many were expecting Fiji to launch at a press event at Computex on Wednesday, but that didn't happen. Instead, AMD show off its key technology...

From InfoWorld: With version 40 of the Firefox Developer Edition browser, Mozilla is adding performance tools to give developers a better understanding of what's happening in apps from a performance standpoint.

The new upgrades profile the performance of websites, apps, or games. "All performance...