Intel’s decision to fire CEO Brian Krzanich for his decision to engage in a consensual violation of company policy has sparked a raft of think pieces on the topic, including those revisiting Intel’s current market position and its relative strength against companies like Qualcomm and AMD. One argument making the …
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Micron announced it’s begun mass production of GDDR6, the next-generation memory standard for video cards that’s expected to take over for GDDR5 in the larger market. Micron’s announcement notes in particular that the company has begun production of its 8Gb (1GB) GDDR6 memory ICs. Micron recently achieved throughput up to …
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Over the last few years, as Intel has launched one successive generation of Core after the other, the meaning of the word “generation” has begun to slip. With gains often being marginal from one generation to the next, the relative impact of each upgrade has been fairly small. PCWorld has …
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For several years Adobe has touted its Sensei framework for incorporating AI into its image editing tools for more realistic noise reduction, cloning, and object removal. Unfortunately, that effort is also one more reason it’s become harder to detect image fakery. So Adobe Research, along with the University of Maryland, …
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Fresh on the heels of Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 850, a new, PC-focused chip that’s intended as a followup to the Snapdragon 835, there’s rumors of the followup to that followup: The Snapdragon 1000. This new SoC is intended for a much larger TDP range, with 16GB of LPDDR4X RAM, 256GB of …
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Google has never used the walled-garden approach to app distribution that Apple uses. If you want to make an Android app and hand out APKs on your own website, that’s totally fine by Google. There’s a story floating around the web today that Google has just gotten around to adding …
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When Apple last redesigned the MacBook Pro keyboard, it attempted to shave roughly one quadrillionth of a millimeter off the keyboard design by shifting to a new type of switch with minimal key travel. Predictably — because literally nothing can be made thinner forever — this relentless pursuit of thinness …
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AMD has launched a new teaser trailer video for Threadripper 2 that feels like something you’d get if you ran Duke Nukem and Doom through a PR generator for a CPU launch. Whether that’s good or not depends on your tolerance for this sort of thing, but the company is …
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An app that has the needs of modern-day parents in mind, Winnie, has now raised $4 million in additional seed funding in a round led by Reach Capital. Other investors in the new round include Rethink Impact, Homebrew, Ludlow Ventures, Afore Capital, and BBG Ventures, among others. With the new funds, Winnie …
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Twitter’s history of being a bit unfriendly to developers building third-party clients hasn’t frightened off Will Bishop. The young Australian developer recently released a version of Twitter for Apple Watch called Chirp, in order to fill the void created by Twitter pulling its official app last fall. (Let’s see how …
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