Technology

  When Intel finally ships 10nm for laptops later this year, it’ll hopefully close the book on a uniquely difficult period in its own history. Originally, 10nm was intended to ship by 2016, following delays to the company’s 14nm process. Intel has since been forced to push the date back …

  If you’re a Ryzen 3000 owner (or planning to be in the near future), be advised — Bungie’s popular Destiny 2 MMO doesn’t currently run on AMD’s latest CPU. It’s not clear why this is currently the case, but according to the developer, a fix is on the way. …

  The world of custom mechanical keyboards is more vibrant and varied than ever before, but most of the switches in those fancy boards still use the same contact leaf mechanisms that have existed for decades. Input Club, the designers behind keyboards like the WhiteFox and Kira, have just launched …

  Microsoft has been forced to block the Windows 10 May 2019 update from its own hardware, due to incompatibilities with the GPUs used in its Surface Book 2. It’s the latest self-own from a company that promised its new methods of rolling out updates and patches would result in …

  AMD has once again refreshed its backward compatibility program and will offer customers who buy a Ryzen 3000 CPU without a compatible motherboard an APU they can use to update their systems. This program, which has been in place for several years now, is a solution to the perennial …

  Intel has announced a significant advance for its neuromorphic research processor, codenamed Loihi. The company has now scaled up its Loihi implementation to the 64-processor level, allowing it to create a system with more than 8M neurons (8.3M). This new configuration (codenamed Pohoiki Beach) delivers 1,000x better performance than …

  Google—the internet’s largest search destination—can legally profit from fraud on its platform and has little incentive to fix it. But this isn’t a problem easily solved by ethics or legal amendments because current circumstances make changing the status quo extremely difficult. Nevertheless, there’s still more that we all can …

  Amazon already has a sizeable foothold in homes with its Alexa-powered Echo products, but Google has eaten into its market share with the Home devices. Meanwhile, Apple is converting some of its fans with the HomePod. Amazon is reportedly inching closer to more advanced Echo devices to combat these …

  The start-up company Tachyum has raised $25M in a Series-A funding round for a new processor design it calls the Prodigy Universal Processor. Prodigy is supposedly faster in single-threaded code than Xeon, with smaller CPU cores than ARM. It can be used to simulate human brain-sized neural networks in …

  The great space race of the 20th century, which culminated in Neil Armstrong’s historic stroll across the surface of the moon, left an immeasurable impact on the modern world. It has inspired several new generations of scientists to push the limits on technology in virtually every industry, and it …