Weave, a developer of patient communications software focused on the dental and optometry market, was the first Utah-headquartered company to graduate from Y Combinator in 2014. Now, it’s poised to enter a small but growing class startups in the ‘Silicon Slopes’ to garner ‘unicorn’ status. The business announced a …

  Just when you think you’ve got a great mobile computing solution, something always comes along to upset the apple cart. In my case, it was mostly drones — more specifically, the 4K footage from my Mavic Pro drones. In addition to the added compute demands of rendering and encoding …

  The U.S. Department of Defense today announced that Microsoft has won its Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) cloud contract, worth up to $10 billion over a period of 10 years. With this, Microsoft will provide infrastructure and platform services for both the Pentagon’s business and mission operations. “The National …

  Camera maker RED garnered attention a few years back when it announced it would release its first Android smartphone. Who wouldn’t want a RED-style camera in a smartphone? However, building phones turned out to be much harder than RED anticipated. After promising a revamped RED Hydrogen phone several months …

  Last year, at Intel Architecture Day, the company unveiled a unique chip called Lakefield. Lakefield blends a single high-end Ice Lake CPU core with four low-power cores built on a new iteration of Intel’s low-power architecture, codenamed Tremont. This is the first time we’ve seen Intel debut a blended …

  Beginning with the original Google Chromebook Pixel, Google’s higher-end ChromeOS hardware has always been impressive, but it came with price tags to match. With the new Pixelbook Go, Google is aiming closer to a mid-market sweet spot for a personal ultralight laptop. A starting price of $650 puts it …

  In 2017, scientists around the world were excited by the news that the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) project had detected gravitational waves from the collision of two neutron stars. This discovery confirmed a pivotal prediction of general relativity, and eventually earned multiple Nobel Prizes. A new study now …

NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity snapped a view of itself and its surroundings on October 11, 2019 (the 2,553rd Martian day, or Sol, of its mission). The selfie (high-resolution version) is composed of 57 individual images taken by the rover’s Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI), a camera on the end of …

Amazon advertising revenue increased by more than 45% year-over-year in the third quarter. Click to enlarge. Amazon advertising revenues hit a new high in the third quarter, reaching $3.6 billion. Overall, the company reported lower-than-expected profits of $2.1 billion on $70 billion in revenue for the third quarter of the …

Perficient Digital released the latest version of its now annual Digital Personal Assistants accuracy study. It compared responses to roughly 5,000 queries on seven devices including Amazon’s Alexa (Echo and Echo Show), Microsoft’s Cortana, Google Assistant (Home, smartphones), and Siri. More answers, less accuracy. At the highest level, Google Assistant …