From The Verge: Microsoft’s 15-inch Surface Book 2 laptop suffers from battery drain during heavy gaming or GPU usage, a problem The Verge first identified during our review of the device last week. While plugged into the supplied charger, the battery on the base of the device will drain during...
From The Verge: Tether, the startup company that allows users to trade and use digital tokens backed by fiat currencies like the dollar, euro, and yen, says that close to $31 million was stolen from its coffers after a malicious attack. In a post on its website, Tether says $30,950,000 USDT was...
From PC Mag: Semiconductor maker Marvell Technology is beefing up its presence in the data center space by buying Cavium, an enterprise server technology vendor, for $6 billion.
The two companies want to target the "high growth" data center market at a time when businesses are moving to the cloud...
From ComputerWorld: Microsoft has reversed the retirement of Windows 10 version 1511, extending support for the 2015 feature upgrade by six months for commercial customers.
"To help some early enterprise adopters that are still finishing their transition to Windows as a service, we will be...
From CNET: It looks like "Game of Thrones" and the "Justice League" may not be heading to AT&T after all.
The Department of Justice is suing to block AT&T's pending acquisition of Time Warner, saying the $85 billion deal would concentrate too much power in one company. Time Warner is the media...
From PC Mag: One of the hardest markets for Western gaming companies to crack is Japan. Japanese gamers prefer to buy homegrown hardware, and both Sony and Nintendo enjoy very healthy sales in their home territory. Microsoft? Not so much.
Microsoft always struggles to sell its Xbox consoles in...
From The Verge: Google is releasing a fix in the coming weeks to remove a faint buzzing sound that appears during phone calls on some Pixel 2 devices. A community manager posted a short message on the Pixel User Community forum confirming the fix, stating, “We’re rolling out a software update in the...
From CNET: Apple has given Amazon and Google an even bigger head start in the race to get smart speakers into your home.
The tech titan said Friday it's pushed back the launch of its first smart speaker, the HomePod, from sometime in December (no specific date was ever offered) to "early 2018" so...
I think it is pretty funny how unfamiliar things can seem after not doing it for a long time. For example, this past week I attended a local hockey game. As my friend was already downtown, I could either take the bus or drive to the train station, then take a train to the arena. As gas prices had risen sharply, I decided to take the bus. Taking my old route, I jumped over my fence and ran out to the bus stop. While I did not forget how to ride a...
If you ask me what is the most useful course I have taken in graduate school, I would like to say it is Optimization Theory, which I have learned how to optimize one or multiple parameters of a complex system. It is easy to consider just one parameter, since there is no need to worry about sacrificing other parameters. However, optimization problems are not so easy to solve if there are several objectives. You cannot just focus on one objective...
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