Today, Intel released its last updates to the Itanium family, the Itanium 9700 series. These new cores, codenamed Kittson, will be the last Itanium processors Intel manufacturers. Kittson is the first update to Poulson, which debuted a new Itanium architecture back in 2012, but it includes no additional features or …

Microsoft’s Terry Meyerson raised eyebrows on Thursday when he announced Apple would bring iTunes to the Windows Store. What’s less clear is whether those eyebrows went up in joy or horror — Apple’s iTunes isn’t technically required if you want to use an iPhone any longer, but it still enjoys …

The high-end laptop market for engineering may be shrinking, as more work gets moved to the cloud, but there are still plenty of good options. Just like with gamers, engineers pose one of the toughest design challenges for laptop makers. Engineering applications need plenty of memory, graphics horsepower, and large screens …

The Amazon Echo seemed like a bizarre device when it was announced, but it was just the first home of Amazon’s Alexa voice assistant. Alexa has since expanded to more smart speakers, tablets, and phones. Now, Amazon is preparing to add a visual element to Alexa with the Echo Show ($229), …

Nvidia has another design win for its Drive PX artificial intelligence platform for autonomous driving: Toyota. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang made the announcement this week in the opening keynote of the company’s GPU Technology Conference in San Jose. Coming on the heels of Nvidia hookups with Mercedes-Benz and Audi, it’s …

Last week, news broke of a serious security flaw in Intel business chipsets dating back seven years. The flaw, which doesn’t affect consumer hardware, concerned products with Intel’s Active Management Technology, Intel’s Small Business Technology, and Intel Standard Manageability. Intel’s description of the flaw is as follows: There is an …

Microsoft Edge has come a long way since Microsoft introduced it nearly two years ago, and while the browser hasn’t caught up with Firefox or Chrome in terms of extensions or market share, MS has been adding features and capabilities in its major OS releases. As BleepingComputer reports, however, Edge …

Remember the halcyon days of 2015 when the Federal Communications Commission voted to secure net neutrality in the United States? That was only two years ago, but the FCC is already looking to reverse itself. Ajit Pai, current chair of the FCC, is doing his damnedest to weaken his own …

Over the past few years, we’ve seen some high profile security problems with laptops from Lenovo, Samsung, and Dell. HP, up until now, had managed to escape any serious issues. According to the Swiss infosec company ModZero, that’s changed, courtesy of a keylogger embedded (probably accidentally) into certain audio drivers …

Organizations across the world have been hit by another wave of ransomware, with targets mostly concentrated in Europe and Asia. One of the most prominent targets is the UK’s National Health Service (NHS), which has caused many clinics and offices to shut down their computers and phones as officials work …