Technology

Game streaming may not have conquered the world the way some pundits thought it might, but we’ve seen real improvements in the capability across the last few years. Nintendo’s Wii U was an early iteration on the concept, Sony added the ability to stream some games to the Vita from …

Yesterday, at I/O 2018, Google showed off a new digital assistant capability that’s meant to improve your life by making simple boring phone calls on your behalf. The new Google Duplex feature is designed to pretend to be human, with enough human-like functionality to schedule appointments or make similarly inane …

Qualcomm supposedly plans to exit the server business, just a few years after prominently positioning itself as the only ARM vendor with the chops to take on Intel in servers and data centers across the world. Back in 2015, Qualcomm announced that it would launch CPUs into this space. By …

For the past few years, Google has been building its own TPU (Tensor Processing Units) to handle various processing tasks related to artificial intelligence and machine learning. Google first announced the existence of TPUs in 2016, but said it had been using them internally for more than a year. The …

Last week, Facebook released the Oculus Go, a $200 virtual reality headset. Outside of the initial setup that’s handled with your phone’s Bluetooth connection, this is an entirely standalone device. It doesn’t connect to your PC like the Oculus Rift, and you don’t snap in your phone like you would …

Nvidia is promoting their own high-end performance in major AI and machine learning benchmarks, as apparently some kind of floodgate has popped open on companies talking about performance metrics for their own hardware solution (This isn’t literally true, but we’ve been seeing a lot of artificial intelligence, machine learning, and …

Two weeks ago, Samsung launched its new 970 EVO and 970 Pro SSDs. The new drives use 64-layer 3D NAND, offer MLC (970 Pro) and TLC (970 EVO) NAND, and are expected to outperform the 2016 960 EVO and 960 Pro SSDs. The launch prices, however, were a bit steep …

Most of the time, when we talk about machine learning, artificial intelligence, or similar workloads, we’re discussing either Nvidia GPUs or custom silicon from companies like Google. Companies like AMD and Intel have been smaller players, though Intel still has its Knights Mill and other Xeon Phi products, as well …

Microsoft may have retreated from the smartphone operating system wars but that doesn’t mean it has given up on trying to get a foothold on other platforms. Today, at its Build developer conference, the company announced three new services that bring its overall cross-platform strategy into focus. On Android, the …

When Apple redesigned the MacBook Pro, it debuted a new type of keyboard based on a butterfly switch design that was supposed to provide better tactile characteristics in a fraction of the travel depth of the previous scissor mechanism. Apple’s goal was to shave a fraction of a millimeter off …