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Flickr through Ben Scholzen. Click for initial.(Image: © Flickr by means of Ben Scholzen) The reports you might have heard over the weekend about Microsoft getting GitHub in a huge transaction held true. Microsoft validated today that it intends on buying the world’s leading software application advancement platform for $7.5 …

Microsoft simply sent its very first self-dependent, water resistant information center to the bottom of the ocean floor near the Orkney Islands in Scotland, the business revealed on Tuesday. About the size of a shipping container, the tubular data center holds 12 racks filled with 864 servers and is connected …

Forty years ago today, Intel launched the original 8086 microprocessor — the grandfather of every x86 CPU ever built, including the ones we use now. This, it must be noted, is more or less the opposite outcome of what everyone expected at the time, including Intel. According to Stephen P. …

Apple announced at WWDC it would be ending its support for OpenGL and OpenCL. While neither is particularly surprising given Apple’s previous willingness to ignore progression in OpenGL versions, the announcement still kicked off some controversy from game developers who already feel less-than-beloved. To head off some of the blowback, …

To celebrate the 40th anniversary of the 8086 and the debut of the x86 architecture, we’re launching a new retrospective on some of Intel’s most important CPU designs. In this article, we’ve rounded up the first decades of history, from the 4004 in 1971 to the Pentium Pro in 1994. …

PC gamers have traditionally been tethered to their gaming machines, but Valve’s Steam Link app offered a potential escape. Steam Link lets you stream a PC game to your mobile device, and the Android launch went off without a hitch. Things weren’t so peachy on the iOS side, though. Apple …

AMD unveiled its 7nm Vega GPU for machine intelligence workloads at Computex. This revised version of Vega 10 — the high-end solution that AMD debuted at the end of summer back in 2017 — increases total onboard HBM2 to 32GB, along with a raft of unspecified changes that AMD obviously …

At Computex this week, Intel showed off a 28-core CPU running at 5GHz. That kind of clock speed in a 28-core CPU yields tremendous dividends, including a Cinebench-smashing multi-threaded score of 7334, but there were also questions about just how Intel would achieve and hold such tremendous clock speeds. The …

US law enforcement revealed several weeks ago that consumer routers all over the world had been infected with dangerous malware. Owners were advised to rest the devices, but that was only a temporary fix. Now, the news is even worse. The VPNFilter malware affects more device models than previously thought, …

Last year, AMD’s Threadripper blew the doors off Intel’s HEDT business by offering far more CPU cores at a much lower overall price. The Threadripper 1950X proved far more effective at the $1,000 price point than the Core i9-7900X, though Intel was able to retain overall performance leadership with its …