Today at the Open Compute Summit, Qualcomm announced a significant partnership with Microsoft that could have ramifications for the entire server industry. Not only has Qualcomm created new server designs around Microsoft’s Project Olympus specifications and its own Centriq 2400 SoCs, it’s working with Microsoft to bring ARM support to …

Microsoft made a lot of changes in Windows 10 that helped it put the mistakes of Windows 8 in the rear view mirror. Not all of Microsoft’s ideas are good, though. The company has shown a tendency to get a little too casual with how it promotes its services within …

Nvidia and Microsoft announced a new system form factor today at the Open Compute Summit for the Open Compute Project. Unlike the venerable ATX standard, this one is designed for data centers and aimed at maximizing GPU performance as part of Microsoft’s Project Olympus initiative. According to Nvidia, HGX-1 is …

Normally it’s a pretty solid assumption that whatever “revolutionary new battery chemistry” has just hit the news is going to crash and burn — sometimes literally. Maybe the thing uses some outlandishly expensive metal as a catalyst, or it has to be supercooled to be well-behaved, or you have to …

The most current dump of secrets via WikiLeaks says cars are among the devices the CIA has hacked or has been trying to hack. One extreme purpose would be to gain control of the car and possibly assassinate the occupants in ways that would make it look like just another …

Photo: Twenty20 If you had to take everything there is to know about fitness and boil it down to one simple concept, it would be progressive overload. This principle of regularly and systematically increasing the demands you place on your body is what training adaptations (aka results) are all about. …

New research by Brockport College Professor Judy Massare and University of Manchester paleontologist Dean Lomax confirms that two species of ichthyosaurs — Ichthyosaurus communis and I. intermedius – are actually one and the same species. Ichthyosaurs. Image credit: Julio Lacerda. Ichthyosaurs — predatory marine reptiles that ranged in size from …

A new study published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences reveals the link between breeding season and the hormone melatonin, made in the pineal gland in the brain during long winter nights. Castle-Miller et al have discovered how animals link the change in seasons to their …

It was Hamlin’s first victory since 2003 in the tour’s championship division. The LPGA Tour Bank of Hope Founders Cup in Phoenix will be March 16-19 at Wildfire Golf Club at JW Marriott Phoenix Desert Ridge Resort Spa. Lorena Ochoa will be playing in her LPGA Tour event in Mexico, …

A month after Pinterest teased how it will bring its visual search engine to the real world, the social network/search engine is extending its ability to turn images into search queries across the wider web. On Tuesday, Pinterest began updating its browser extensions so that people can click on an image on any web …