Women in tech are not only significantly under-funded by venture capitalists, but they also often lack access to the early-stage support granted to their male counterparts. To enroll in a startup accelerator like Y Combinator, for example, it’s expected founders relocate to the Bay Area for three months. Women, who …
Read More »Tours Taking Canada By Storm This Fall 2018
Photo Credit: Instagram For all of the Canadian music buffs, this fall promises to be a good one as it’s jam packed with tour dates. A plethora of iconic musicians have tour stops scheduled in multiple cities in the great north over the next few months. Whether you’re into …
Read More »Apple leaks iPhone XS, XS Max, and XR names by itself site
A last-minute leak has actually relatively confirmed the iPhone XS, XS Max, and XR names for Apple’s most recent phones, in addition to new a new Apple Watch size. The names, first identified by ATH, are discovered in a item sitemap XML file hosted on Apple.com, and are related to …
Read More »Macaw Which Inspired Film ‘Rio’ Now Formally Categorized As ‘Extinct In The Wild’
PA The blue macaw parrot depicted in the animated children’s preferred Rio has actually been officially classified as’extinct in the wild’. The Spix’s macaw Brazilian parrot, which was fictionalised as Blu, is now one of eight species that have been contributed to a list of verified or extremely likely terminations. …
Read More »Report: Apple Preparing Blitz of New iPhones, iPads, Possible Kitchen Sink
Apple’s annual iPhone launch event kicks off Wednesday, but Bloomberg thinks there’s considerably more than new iDevices coming down the pipe. While Apple is expected to lead with its trio of new phones, there’s considerably more coming down the pipe as well. The only question is how much of it …
Read More »Intel Purchases NetSpeed Systems for SoC, Fabric Expertise
Intel has announced the purchase of NetSpeed Systems, a San Jose-based company specializing in building SoCs and interconnect fabrics. NetSpeed appears to specialize in building network-on-chip (NoC) connections for handling communication between the various functional blocks on the chip. As SoCs have become more complex and integrated additional capabilities, the …
Read More »4 New AMD Ryzen CPUs Target Lower Power, Higher Performance
AMD has announced a new suite of four CPUs to fill out various aspects of its Ryzen family — and to hit some TDP targets that the company hasn’t previously delivered. The new processors are the 2700E, the 2600E, the 2500X, and the 2300X. Two of the chips target a …
Read More »Nvidia Will Keep Pascal GPUs on Store Shelves After RTX Launches
Nvidia is preparing to launch new high-end GPUs, but the operative word may be “high-end.” In previous cycles, both AMD and Nvidia have typically led with a high-end card before debuting lower-end hardware within a matter of months. Exactly how quickly this rollout takes place varies from cycle to cycle …
Read More »Security Holes Discovered in 2 Popular VPN Services
VPN services work by passing traffic through an encrypted tunnel, which providers say can help preserve your privacy and security online. However, two of the most popular VPNs were, at least for a time, exposing users to a serious security flaw could let attackers run arbitrary code on an affected …
Read More »More Mysterious Bursts of Light From Deep Space Found
There are a great many mysteries still to unravel in the cosmos, and we may be one step closer to solving one of them thanks to machine learning. Scientists from the University of California, Berkeley SETI Research Center have turned an AI loose on fast radio burst (FRB) data from …
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