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Update:  We’ve heard from Intel on this issue. A company spokesperson states:  “Mitigations that address this [the L1 Terminal Fault bug, aka Foreshadow] have already been made available – which also address the attestation scenario. The best thing for people to do is simply to keep their systems up to date. …

Steve Jobs had a certain reputation for product design. Whether it’s a good reputation or not depends on how you view Apple and its products, but there’s no denying that the man had a knack for designs that didn’t look much like what the rest of the PC or electronics …

ARM is announcing its first roadmap for client PCs today, in a bid to push into a larger number of systems and to challenge Intel for client computing dominance. While the company is still focused on mobile experiences, laptops dominate PC shipments today. The company is promising to deliver performance …

Update:  We’ve heard from Intel on this issue. A company spokesperson states:  “Mitigations that address this [the L1 Terminal Fault bug, aka Foreshadow] have already been made available – which also address the attestation scenario. The best thing for people to do is simply to keep their systems up to date. …

Google announced a new subscription platform earlier this year called Google One. It’s centered around Google Drive storage, but it also has family sharing, priority support, and other perks. It’s been a slow rollout for Google One so far, but now the service is launching widely. If you’re looking for …

5G is coming — and with it, potentially, some enormous changes in how service is delivered. For decades, the gold standard of internet service has been fiber optic cable (so-called fiber-to-the-home, or FTTH). Dreams of a nationwide wired network delivering gigabit or greater speeds, however, have been stymied by steep …

Epic’s Fortnite launch on Android has been nonstandard, to put it politely. Instead of going the usual route of distributing the game via Google Play, Samsung and Epic announced that the game would be distributed via an APK and would initially only be available on certain Samsung models. While this …

Google’s Chrome OS gets a lot of things right, and the platform has evolved considerably over the years. Not only does it offer an always up-to-date version of the Chrome browser, but there are also Android apps, stylus input, and even Linux support on some devices. However, Chrome OS is …

In what has become something of a yearly tradition, consulting firm DisplayMate has crowned the new Galaxy Note as the king of display quality. According to the report, the Galaxy Note 9 has record high color accuracy. Displaymate goes so far as to call it “visually indistinguishable from perfect.” That’s …

It’s been years since Nvidia has launched a new GPU architecture, but the company is finally ready to formally announce the next-generation follow-up to its Volta GPU family. For decades, Nvidia pursued a strategy of using one GPU architecture across its entire product lineup, with variations in RAM loadout or …