AMD’s Ryzen-fueled recovery handed the company its first full-year profits in years in 2017, and 2018 appears to be off to a very strong start. The company posted revenue of $1.65B for Q1 2018, up 1.4x from the same period in 2017. According to AMD CEO Lisa Su, Ryzen processor …

A California man by the name of Eric Lundgren is headed to prison for 15 months after being convicted of illegally producing 28,000 Microsoft Windows restore discs. On the surface, that sounds rather cut and dry, but many have pointed out the software on those discs was already freely available. …

Over the past few years, Nvidia has established itself as a major leader in machine learning and artificial intelligence processing. The GPU designer dove into the HPC market over a decade ago when it launched the G80 and its parallel compute platform API, CUDA. Early leadership has paid off for …

It’s very rare these days that a hotel will give you a real key when you check in. Instead, most chain hotels and mid-sized establishments have switched over to electronic locks with a keycard system. As researchers from F-Secure have discovered, these electronic locks may not be very secure. Researchers …

What’s got bananas, chocolate, and peanut butter, and is both super easy to make and eat? Chunky Monkey Pull Apart Bread!  A loaf made of layers of dough, filled with sweet bananas, rich peanut butter, and decadent chocolate chips. You can’t say “no” to a second (or third) piece of this …

An international team of scientists has found evidence of an interaction between Ice Age humans and now-extinct giant ground sloths. White Sands footprints tell the story of a group of humans tracking and hunting a giant ground sloth. Image credit: Alex McClelland, Bournemouth University. The team found and analyzed fossilized …

Consuming dark chocolate with at least 70% cacao has positive effects on stress levels, inflammation, mood, memory and immunity, according to two studies presented this week at the Experimental Biology 2018 annual meeting in San Diego. While it is well known that cacao is a major source of flavonoids, this …

An independent review of corruption in tennis found that the sport “faces a serious integrity problem” at its lower levels a “tsunami,” according to one person interviewed but did not determine there are widespread problems at ATP, WTA and Grand Slam tournaments. The report released Wednesday showed no cover-up by …

Tuesday night marked an end to a long and strange season for the San Antonio Spurs. Gregg Popovich’s squad had to deal with injuries to key players all season, most notably to franchise centerpiece Kawhi Leonard. Leonard was limited to just nine games all season due to a mysterious, lingering …

Today’s Google doodle marks what would have been the 100th birthday of Olympic athlete Fanny Blankers-Koen, the first woman to win four gold medals in a single Olympics. The Dutch-born runner’s first Olympic competition was during the 1936 Berlin games, when she was 18. Twelve years later, Blankers-Koen would shatter …