From ComputerWorld: Samsung wants to cram faster and more power-efficient DDR4 DRAM in laptops and hybrids with new memory chips it introduced on Monday.
The South Korean company has started mass production of DDR4 memory chips based on the cutting edge 10-nanometer class process. The first 8...
From InfoWorld: AMD hopes to provide stiffer competition to Intel's Skylake with its new 7th Generation processor for laptops and desktops.
The new AMD processors, code-named Bristol Ridge, will initially ship in dual-core and quad-core configurations. A Bristol Ridge processor will first appear in...
From TechHive: One of the best features of Roku’s high-end streaming boxes—private listening by way of plugging headphones into the remote control—is coming to Roku’s least-expensive streamer: the new Roku Streaming Stick ($50), which is now available for pre-order. But you’ll need to provide your...
From InfoWorld: Hewlett Packard Enterprise is to sell its majority stake in Indian IT services provider Mphasis to Blackstone Group, in a deal that will help the Palo Alto, California, company raise capital as well as continue to get services delivered from India.
HPE said the purchase by...
From PC World: With privacy and secrecy functions a given in competing messaging systems, BlackBerry is dropping the subscription fee for users of the ‘retract’ and ‘timer’ functions of its cross-platform BBM messaging app.
As BlackBerry’s share of the smartphone market declined, it released...
From CNET: A warning to those San Franciscans who've gotten into the illegal hotel business by offering short-term rentals on more than one home: Airbnb is after you.
The home-sharing site on Saturday said it's investigating hosts in the city with multiple listings and plans to give "unwelcome...
From ComputerWorld: With its latest SSDs, Intel is paving the way for fast, standard NVMe connections in storage systems for both more and less adventurous users.
Intel is one of the biggest boosters of NVMe (non-volatile memory express), designed as a standard controller technology for PCI...
Before we begin, let me just make it clear there are no April Fools jokes in this article. Now that we have all that cleared up, let me ask you a quick question: How much does presentation affect the perception of quality? In 2007, a man spent a cold January morning playing six classical pieces for 45 minutes at the entrance to a subway station in Washington DC. During this time, thousands of people went through the station. Among all the people...
Two weeks ago, I received my Iron Ring, signaling the beginning of my career as an engineer. However, it did not really mean a whole lot to me yet, especially as I still have a month of school to go. While the ceremony itself was interesting itself, since then, I have found it hard to actually remove the ring from my hand. No, this is not like a "Lord of the Rings" ring to rule them all, especially everyone else there received a ring like mine...
From PC World: Every time Intel announces new Xeon chips, server makers waste no time in announcing new products to take advantage.
Lenovo, Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Dell have announced faster servers with Intel's new Xeon E5-2600 v4 chips based on the Broadwell architecture. The chips have...
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