Google Fiber reportedly ordered to cut costs, downsize

From CNET: Google Fiber, a subsidiary of Google parent company Alphabet, has fallen "well short" of its subscriber goals and is now looking to cut costs, according to a report Thursday from The Information.

Alphabet co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin have been unhappy with the rollout and costs...

Google Fiber flips the switch on super-fast internet in Salt Lake City

From CNET: Google Fiber is live in Salt Lake City and ready to serve the internet needs of Utah's capital.

The web giant made the announcement Tuesday in a tweet that invited residents to check whether the super-high-speed Internet and TV services are available at their address and sign up for...

New GDDR6 memory could hit GPUs in 2018

From InfoWorld: Virtual reality and gaming are changing the way PCs are built and driving the development of new types of memory for GPUs.

A successor to the GDDR5 memory used in most GPUs -- called GDDR6 -- will be on its way by 2018, according to a presentation by Samsung executive Jin Kim at the...

Best Buy's online sales soar despite competitors

From CNET: Even as big retail chains like Target reported weak second-quarter earnings, Best Buy swooped in Tuesday with surprisingly strong numbers.

Its 0.8 percent growth for comparable sales, while modest, exceeded expectations, and online sales growth reached 23.7 percent compared to 17 percent...

Google is bringing its Wi-Fi Assistant feature to all Nexus phones

From PC World: One of the clever features of Google’s Project Fi is the ability of your phone to automatically connect to open Wi-Fi networks. This can help you save some data usage and possibly give you better download speeds if you’re in an area with shaky cellular service. Google maintains a list...

YouTube's TV app gets a facelift

From CNET: YouTube updated its design for TVs, aiming to make it easier to watch when you're sitting back on a couch with a remote in your hand.

The new looks adds carousels based on 12 categories that people like to browse -- news, gaming, sports, beauty, travel, tech and so on. The redesign also...

Microsoft's Office, OneDrive, Skype to climb into Lenovo phones

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...

Google readies next-gen RPC protocol to replace JSON

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...

Cooler Master MasterKeys Lite L Combo RGB Review (Page 1 of 4)

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...

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