From CRN: Intel has hired former GlobalFoundries CTO Gary Patton, a semiconductor industry veteran who has experience leading design enablement as well as the development of process and packaging technologies for computer chips.

The Santa Clara, Calif.-based company confirmed to CRN the hiring of...

From Tom's Hardware: Samsung is betting on China. Reuters, citing Chinese state media, today said the company plans to invest another $8 billion in a NAND production facility in Xi'an.

The investment could allow Samsung to improve production of its NAND flash; it could also be an attempt by the...

From CNET: Amazon on Wednesday unveiled its shipping cutoff times for this year's holiday season, with the company using its growing footprint of stores and one-day shipping service to extend its sales right up to Christmas.

The e-commerce giant has worked over the past six years to ramp up its own...

From PC Mag: Apple would dearly like you to pay $4,999 for its new Pro Display XDR, or even $5,999 for the nano-texture glass version with a special cleaning cloth. However, the high price doesn't mean you're getting a built-in webcam, so Logitech decided to design a new one exclusively for the XDR...

From The Verge: Apple’s newest top-of-the-line display, the Pro Display XDR, is out today. And it doesn’t come cheap, starting at $4,999, with a matte “nano texture” upgrade for a mere $1,000. If you buy that nano texture upgrade, though, and you ever allow a speck of dust to grace it, don’t you...

From The Verge: Edison Mail (formerly known as EasilyDo Mail) is making the jump from mobile app to desktop email client with the release of a new Mac app.

I’ve been using a beta version of Edison Mail for a few days, and it’s a similar experience to the mobile versions, with a clean UI and the...

From PC Mag: It's been a winning year for AMD in the twin worlds of CPUs and GPUs, and now the company is rounding out its December with its annual major update to its Radeon Software suite of graphics apps and drivers, in the form of Radeon Software Adrenalin 2020 Edition.

This year, the company...

From CNET: Lightroom for iPad can now directly import photos from a memory card with an update Adobe released Tuesday to its image-editing and cataloging software. The move brings the tablet version of Lightroom closer to the version for PCs running Windows and MacOS -- and improves tablets, too...

From Thermaltake Press Release: Thermaltake today announced the release of the Thermaltake TOUGHRAM Z-ONE RGB DDR4 Memory Kit 3,200MHz, which is supported by Intel and AMD platforms. Featuring 10-layer PCB construction for enhanced performance and stability, the TOUGHRAM Z-ONE RGB is equipped with...

From PC Mag: Earlier this year, the UK government announced a partnership with Amazon that let Alexa tap into information available on the National Health Service (NHS) website to answer health questions.

The idea was that UK residents could get health information from Amazon's voice assistant...