Reports of Jack Ma’s impending retirement are greatly exaggerated, it seems. Ma, the co-founder and executive chairman of Alibaba, has pushed back on claims that he is on the cusp of leaving the $420 billion Chinese e-commerce firm. The New York Times first reported that the entrepreneur plans to announce that he will …
Read More »Most People Are Not In Favor Of Le’Veon Bell.
Steelers running back LeVeon Bell is about to embark on the least popular holdout in recent NFL memory. For the second season in a row, the Steelers have stuck Bell with the franchise tag guaranteeing him the top running back salary in the league , but giving him no long-term …
Read More »Where To Spot Celebrities During TIFF
Photo Credit: Instagram This year, the Toronto International Film Festival, TIFF for short, will take place from September 6th – September 16th. During this period of time, Toronto will be overflowing with celebrity star power. If you’re not one of the lucky few to get a red carpet pass, …
Read More »UL Delists Huawei Benchmark Scores After Cheating Discovered
UL, which owns 3DMark, has issued its own statement on Huawei’s benchmarking practices after the company was discovered to be artificially inflating its benchmark performance by pushing its SoCs out of thermal bounds when benchmarks were added to a whitelist that allowed the SoC to run at clocks that actually …
Read More »Huawei Caught Cheating in Smartphone GPU Benchmarks
The Chinese manufacturer Huawei has been distributing devices with secret benchmark modes enabled, drastically misrepresenting the performance of these devices and inflating their test results. It’s far from the first time we’ve been down this road, either with benchmarking or mobile devices, but what Huawei has done is a little …
Read More »Samsung Adds 8nm Process, Limited EUV Manufacturing in 2019
Samsung has issued updates for its own foundry roadmap and processes, making it an excellent time to revisit what the company is planning to roll out in the next few years. The foundry industry has been rocked in recent weeks by GlobalFoundries’ announcement that it would leave the leading edge …
Read More »Microsoft Relents, Confirms Extended Support Option for Windows 7
Windows 7 might be on its way to being Microsoft’s new Windows XP. As the Redmond company urges consumers and businesses to upgrade to Windows 10, many customers are happily staying on Windows 7 despite the rapidly approaching end of support. Microsoft’s VP for Office and Windows marketing Jared Spataro …
Read More »Russian Investigators Suggest ISS Damage Could Have Been Sabotage
Astronauts scrambled last week to find and patch a small hole in the International Space Station (ISS) that threatened to leak the station’s atmosphere into space. The crew eventually discovered a tiny puncture in the Russian Soyuz capsule docked to the station. The hole was first identified as a micrometeoroid …
Read More »New Research Makes the Case for Pluto as a Planet
There was no doubt Pluto was a planet back when Clyde Tombaugh spotted it in 1930, but scientists rethought that after learning more about the solar system. In 2006, a new definition of what makes a plane from the International Astronomical Union (IAU) saw Pluto demoted to dwarf planet status. …
Read More »Twitter launches audio-only broadcasting feature on its iOS app and Periscope
Twitter is launching a new feature that allows users to create audio-only broadcasts directly from Twitter itself, as well as Twitter’s Periscope. The feature, which Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey confirmed in a tweet this morning, is available from the same interface where you would normally launch live video. It’s currently …
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