From PC World: Earlier this year, Microsoft made a splash at its Ignite conference for IT professionals when it announced that it has been racking cards of programmable chips together with servers in its cloud data centers.

The chips, called field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), can be...

From CNET: Airbnb suffered a loss on Tuesday when a federal judge rejected the company's plea to change a San Francisco law that requires the home-rental company to block or remove hosts who haven't registered with the city.

Airbnb sued the city of San Francisco in June saying the city law violates...

From InfoWorld: While new programming languages emerge on what seems like a daily basis, two established languages have remained in charge when it comes to leading the Tiobe Index of language popularity: Java and C.

The two languages have held either first or second place since Tiobe began...

From CNET: Samsung has published an open letter of apology to its customers following numerous reports of its Galaxy Note 7 handsets overheating catching fire that led to the handset's recall.

"We recognize that we have not lived up to your expectations, or our own high standards. For this we are...

From PC World: AMD is excited about its Polaris GPUs and upcoming Zen-based PC and server chips, which the company hopes will end years of struggles.

A step forward for AMD is the release soon of its Radeon Pro WX graphics cards, targeted at content creation for 4K games or virtual reality. These...

From CNET: LG is stepping up its Android game, on Tuesday beginning the rollout of Android 7.0 Nougat to the G5.

That makes the G5 the first non-Google phone to receive the update. Meanwhile, the recent Google Pixel and LG's V20 were shipped with Nougat.

LG said G5's in South Korea will get the...

From InfoWorld: Owners of WeMo home automation devices should upgrade them to the latest firmware version, which was released this week to fix a critical vulnerability that could allow hackers to fully compromise them.

The vulnerability was discovered by researchers from security firm Invincea in...

From CNET: "Who's LeEco?" you may be asking. You might still be asking after finding out it's predominantly a successful Chinese conglomerate which started out in online video distribution and expanded into India and Europe with phones. But if you watched the occasionally surreal press conference...

From PC World: At US $6.99, a new Raspberry Pi competitor called Orange Pi Zero costs less than some sandwiches in New York City.

The Orange Pi Zero can be used to make electronics or robots, or it can fill in as a file or media server. Such developer boards are also used to create and test...

From CNET: Samsung plans to launch an artificial intelligence digital assistant with its upcoming Galaxy S8 phone, the company said Sunday according to Reuters.

The announcement comes a month after Samsung revealed it had agreed to acquire the artificial intelligence startup behind Viv -- a voice...