Apple smartphones outsold Samsung's in Q4

From InfoWorld: Apple has overtaken Samsung Electronics in smartphone sales for the first time in two years—but don’t count on it staying ahead for long.

Samsung sold 76.8 million smartphones in the fourth quarter, giving it a market share of 17.8 percent, but it was just beaten by Apple, which...

Amazon Chime goes after WebEx, Skype for Business, and GoToMeeting

From InfoWorld: Companies looking for a new video- and teleconferencing system have a fresh face to turn to in the market: Amazon Web Services.

On Monday, the public cloud provider announced the launch of Amazon Chime, a new service that’s designed to compete with the likes of WebEx, Skype for...

Intel now supports Vulkan on Windows 10 PCs

From PC World: Intel is bringing more options to improve gaming and virtual reality experiences on Windows PCs with official support for Vulkan APIs (application programming interfaces).

Vulkan is similar to DirectX 12 and can be used for many applications, but it is most relevant to visual...

Nikon bails on advanced compacts and that's not good

From CNET: This morning I received the sad news: email notifications from B&H Photo breaking that Nikon was discontinuing its DL series of enthusiast-targeted fixed-lens cameras -- actually, discontinuing efforts to produce them at all. This is almost a year since the company announced them at CP+...

Google crams machine learning into smartwatches in AI push

From PC World: Google is bringing artificial intelligence to a whole new set of devices, including Android Wear 2.0 smartwatches and the Raspberry Pi board, later this year.

A cool thing is these devices don't require a set of powerful CPUs and GPUs to carry out machine learning tasks.

Google...

Qualcomm's new 802.11ax chips will ramp up your Wi-Fi

From CNET: Your home Wi-Fi performance will soon get much better thanks to new Wi-Fi chips that Qualcomm announced today, the IPQ8074 system-on-chip (SoC) for broadcasters (routers and access points) and the QCA6290 SoC for receivers (Wi-Fi devices). They belong to the first end-to-end commercial Wi...

Microsoft unveils a bonanza of security capabilities

From InfoWorld: Companies concerned about cybersecurity have a fleet of new Microsoft tools coming their way. The company announced a host of new security capabilities Friday morning as part of the run-up to the massive RSA security conference next week in San Francisco.

On the Windows front, the...

US chipmaker plans new factory in China

From PC World: GlobalFoundries will open a new factory to make cheap wireless chips in Chengdu, China, next year.

The chipmaker, once part of microprocessor designer AMD, also plans to expand production at existing fabrication plants in the U.S., Germany, and Singapore, it said Friday. It makes...

Fractal Design Define C Review (Page 1 of 4)

As someone who is in their first year of being in the working world, I think it is important to set a reputation around the office for who you are. Personally, I aim for positive traits such as being helpful, knowledgeable, and a hard worker. On the other hand, there are more neutral traits, and recently I have been labelled as the bad punner. A few weeks back, several of my co-workers went out for a lunch. While we were waiting for our lunch to...

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