From PC World: Researchers want to give a 25-core open-source processor called Piton some serious bite.
The developers of the chip at Princeton University have in mind a 200,000-core computer crammed with 8,000 64-bit Piton chips.
It won’t happen anytime soon, but that’s one possible usage...
From CNET: Microsoft Office, OneDrive and Skype are wending their way to Lenovo's Android smartphones.
Microsoft and Lenovo announced on Monday a deal in which Lenovo will preload Microsoft's three productivity applications onto certain Lenovo devices powered by Android. Microsoft Office typically...
From InfoWorld: With the 1.0 release of its gRPC protocol, Google aims to provide a next-generation standard for server-to-server communications in an age of cloud microservices.
Originally unveiled early last year, gRPC was conceived as a transport framework for handling both public- and private...
As you may have read in my FSP Hydro G 850W article, I was in the market for a car. I ended up buying a 2015 Chevrolet Cruze. It was kind of funny since I thought I would never buy a domestic car, and here I was purchasing from the same manufacturer as all the other cars I had driven. After many daily routes with this car, I can honestly say it is not terrible. On paper, it has average numbers across the board, and in practice, it is pretty much...
From InfoWorld: Microsoft yesterday released 64-bit versions of its Office 2016 applications for the Mac, following a series of previews offered testers since April.
The five apps -- Excel, OneNote, Outlook, PowerPoint and Word -- will be updated to 64-bit for all customers, including those with an...
From CNET: TP-Link, maker of routers and networking equipment, announced a brand redesign today. Why? Because the company wants to be thought of as a home lifestyle brand, according to a conversation CNET had with TP-Link's president and chairman Jeffrey Chao.
TP-Link has been making routers and...
From PC World: Samsung Electronics continues to place its bets on the Tizen operating system for smartphones, with the launch Tuesday in India of a 4G enabled smartphone priced at 4,590 rupees (US$68).
The company’s Tizen phones have not very successful in the country, and the new device is not...
From CNET: Four months after Comcast announced its intention to acquire animation studio DreamWorks Animation, NBCUniversal, a division of cable company Comcast, has announced the closure of the $3.8 billion deal.
DreamWorks Animation, which produced such films as "Shrek," "Kung Fu Panda,"...
From CNET: Sony could be about to announce two new PlayStation 4 consoles, according to the Wall Street Journal. Both units are set to be introduced next month, people familiar with the matter told the newspaper.
The upgraded console outlined by the company earlier this year, capable of outputting...
From PC World: One of the best things about Chromebooks is that they’re built to last. Thanks to automatic security and feature updates from Google, along with a lightweight browser-based operating system, longtime users may find that their laptops run as well, if not better, than they did on day...
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