Samsung will reportedly sell refurbished phones from next year

From CNET: The expensive Samsung phone you've always dreamed of owning might soon be available at a snip of its original price.

The phone giant is set to launch a refurbished phone program as early as next year, Reuters reported on Monday, citing "a person with direct knowledge of the matter."...

DRAM will live on as DDR5 memory is slated to reach computers in 2020

From InfoWorld: Hardware experts believed the last DRAM would be the current DDR4, but that's not the case, with DDR5 memory now under development.

Specifications for DDR5 memory will be released this year, and deployment of the DRAM will begin in 2020, according to a slide deck presented at the...

AZIO MGK L80 RGB Review

On my recent road trip to Seattle, my friends and I had a one-night stop in Spokane, Washington, in order to give our driver a break. We visited a local park, where hordes of people were gathered around. At first, it seemed nice to see other people out and about. However, on closer inspection, we realized everyone was on their phones playing the latest mobile game, Pokémon Go. One of my friends, who is more of a traditionalist when it comes to...

DRAM will live on as DDR5 memory is slated to reach computers in 2020

From InfoWorld: Hardware experts believed the last DRAM would be the current DDR4, but that's not the case, with DDR5 memory now under development.

Specifications for DDR5 memory will be released this year, and deployment of the DRAM will begin in 2020, according to a slide deck presented at the...

Intel: Fast Thunderbolt ports will take off with next-gen PCs

From CNET: Intel's long-running but largely unsuccessful effort to transform how you plug devices into your PC will make significant progress this year, the chipmaker predicts.

Intel has promoted Thunderbolt for years with few signs of mainstream success. At this week's Intel Developer Forum...

PowerShell is just Microsoft's latest open-source gift to developers

From PC World: Microsoft just open-sourced PowerShell, making it available for both Linux and Mac. The command-line shell and scripting platform is just the latest open-source friendly software from Microsoft.

All the “Microsoft loves Linux” talk can be a tad misleading. Microsoft definitely won’t...

Intel's Knights Mill mega-chip to take on GPUs in AI

From InfoWorld: Intel has pulled open the curtain on a secretly developed mega-chip called Knights Mill, a key component in its artificial-intelligence strategy.

The chip -- which belongs to the family of high-performance Xeon Phi processors -- gives Intel a legitimate opportunity to tackle machine...

Beast of the east: Huawei to build phones in India

From CNET: Peter Zhai, President of Huawei India Consumer Business Group, said on Thursday that the company will soon begin manufacturing phones in the country, The Economic Times reports.

For Huawei, the world's third largest smartphone brand according to IDC research, manufacturing devices in the...

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