One of the topics we’ve repeatedly returned to here at ExtremeTech is the state of Moore’s Law and its long-term future. Our conclusions have often been at odds with public statements by semiconductor designers and the foundries that build their hardware. Intel, for example, is still stressing the importance and …

Intel’s Coffee Lake refresh represents the largest performance refresh we’ve seen from the company since the Sandy Bridge era. While the benefits will primarily impact users who run multi-threaded workloads, many programs these days support four or more threads. Even when applications aren’t multi-threaded, having more cores can keep a …

Intel’s latest Core i9-7980XE is a monster CPU and the fastest core you can buy in the consumer space today (for an extremely specific and well-heeled definition of ‘consumer,’ anyway). As with all high core count CPUs, however, Intel had to compromise on clock speeds. The all-core clock on a …

Recent visitors to Showtime’s website got more than competently produced, premium cable series streamed on-demand. They also got a spike in CPU usage, as Showtime used their systems to mine cryptocurrency. So, was this malware? Perhaps a bad ad infiltrated Showtime’s site? Nope, Showtime apparently intended to do this by …

Sorghum was domesticated from its wild ancestor more than 5,000 years ago, according to archaeological evidence uncovered by University College London archaeologist Dorian Fuller and colleagues in Sudan. Sorghum (Sorghum bicolor). Image credit: Pethan, Botanical Gardens, Utrecht University / CC BY-SA 3.0. Sorghum (Sorghum bicolor) is a native African grass …

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration and the Virgo Collaboration report the first joint detection of gravitational waves, ripples in the fabric of space and time, first predicted by Albert Einstein more than a century ago. This is the fourth announced detection of a signal from two black holes in their final …

Earlier this year Thailand-based Omise held a $25 million ICO to develop a next-generation decentralized payment network, and now the company has closed an undisclosed investment from Thai bank Krungsri (Bank of Ayudhya). Omise has raised over $20 million in VC money — the ICO was for its Omise Go (OMG) …

Tyler Isenhart and Ryan Vanderway took diametrically different paths to the Class 3A boys golf state tournament in Bloomington last year. Isenhart, who ultimately finished tied for third, accompanied the Geneva team. The two juniors, for the third consecutive year, captured individual top honors in the two divisions of the …

Yesterday, at a pre-emptive event in Seattle, Amazon introduced new Alexa devices to keep its lead in the battle for the smart home. Google is having its own hardware event on October 4. Amazon introduced six products. First and foremost, it presented a more compact, cheaper Echo with better sound. …

Sergey Alakov first noticed that Google has begun rolling out the local finder website mentions that Google began testing earlier this month. Website mentions in the local finder show the searcher if their query, the search they used to bring up the local results in Google, matches any of the …