The US and China are currently engaged in an escalating trade war that’s going to start having an impact on semiconductor parts and PC components in the near future. Anyone planning to make purchases may wish to do so sooner rather than later. On September 24, the following goods will …
Read More »Intel Goes Back to 22nm for New Chipset to Address Manufacturing Shortage
Intel’s manufacturing shortage has forced the company to get creative in how it approaches the problem — and take some unusual steps to address it. Historically, Intel’s tick-tock cadence saw the company move to a leading-edge node for its top-end CPUs, then, at a later date, transition its motherboard chipsets …
Read More »Windows May Be Storing All Your Email and Docs as Unencrypted Plaintext
Forensic analyst and data recovery expert Barnaby Skeggs has discovered a troubling design decision in Windows 8.1 and Windows 10 that could open certain users to data theft without said users being any the wiser. While performing a detailed system analysis to determine if a particular email had ever been …
Read More »Will Phones Soon Finish Off the Camera Market?
It’s no secret the world’s most popular camera is now the phone. In parallel, standalone camera sales have nose-dived. The point-and-shoot market, in particular, has been imploding, with only a few niches like action cameras, large-sensor photo-enthusiast models, and superzooms hanging on. So far, there remains a relatively stable market …
Read More »Matter Falling Into a Black Hole Clocked at 30 Percent the Speed of Light
The Royal Astronomical Society has reported the first-ever detection of matter falling directly into a black hole at 30 percent of the speed of light, courtesy of a super-massive black hole located in the galaxy PG211+143. The finding tells us something about how gas is sucked into the gullet of …
Read More »Planet-hunting TESS Spacecraft Has Already Spotted 2 Exoplanets
In the last few decades, we’ve gone from knowing of exactly zero exoplanets to several thousand. That’s largely thanks to the Kepler Space Telescope, but that mission is nearing its end. Luckily, NASA launched a successor several months ago. The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) only started operating over the …
Read More »Billie Jean King, Partner Join LA Dodgers Ownership Group.
Tennis icon Billie Jean King and her partner Illana Kloss have joined the Los Angeles Dodgers ownership group, the team announced Thursday. In this Jan. 29, 2016, file photo, tennis great Billie Jean King, left, laughs, reacting to President Barack Obamas remarks in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the …
Read More »Meet the startups in the latest Alchemist class
Alchemist is the Valley’s premiere enterprise accelerator and every season they feature a group of promising startups. They are also trying something new this year: they’re putting a reserve button next to each company, allowing angels to express their interest in investing immediately. It’s a clever addition to the demo …
Read More »How to Protect Your Retirement from Inflation (It May Be Rearing Its Ugly Head)
Inflation is a dirty word when it comes to retirement finances. We have been lucky for a while. Over the last four decades the United States has enjoyed record low inflation rates. That might be changing and you may want to consider ways to protect your retirement from inflation …
Read More »HTC Talks Security for Its Upcoming ‘Exodus’ Blockchain Phone
HTC was once the top Android device maker — it was actually the only Android device maker for a while. As Android grew, HTC couldn’t keep up. It has not had much success in launching new Android phones lately, but the company hopes the blockchain can solve its woes. It …
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