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Google released the first code for its mysterious Fuchsia operating system in 2016, but its plans for the platform are still unknown. After getting an interesting but strange user interface last year, Fuchsia now has a hint of Android app support. New updates to the Android Open Source Project (AOSP) …

Earlier this week, we listed out the top 5 features Samsung stole from Apple. Since this sort of thing often goes both ways, we’ve also compiled a list of features that Apple shamelessly stole from Samsung. To qualify for our Wall of Shame, a feature needed to be significant, or …

Whether it’s stealing our jobs or helping us diagnose disease, artificial intelligence is going to have a huge impact on the future of humanity. Research on how to make machines learn and think like people is one of the hottest areas of technology right now, but some companies are clearly …

AMD disclosed its Q1 2018 earnings figures Wednesday, with remarkably strong sales that bucked seasonal trends and emphasized that Ryzen is driving AMD’s newfound profitability. During the conference call, Lisa Su announced that 7nm GPU production was on track, and that AMD still expects to ship a 7nm Vega in …

The buzz or chime of a push notification on your phone is, at best, a distraction, and at worst, a source of stress and anxiety. A new app called Aloe Bud wants to make those push notifications into something more welcome: gentle reminders to take care of yourself and your …

Over the last few years, Samsung has quietly taken over the SSD industry, and now fields some of the highest-performing NAND silicon you can buy today. Samsung’s 960 Pro and 960 Evo drives won accolades in 2016, and the company is hoping to repeat that hat trick again with the …

AMD’s Ryzen-fueled recovery handed the company its first full-year profits in years in 2017, and 2018 appears to be off to a very strong start. The company posted revenue of $1.65B for Q1 2018, up 1.4x from the same period in 2017. According to AMD CEO Lisa Su, Ryzen processor …

A California man by the name of Eric Lundgren is headed to prison for 15 months after being convicted of illegally producing 28,000 Microsoft Windows restore discs. On the surface, that sounds rather cut and dry, but many have pointed out the software on those discs was already freely available. …

Over the past few years, Nvidia has established itself as a major leader in machine learning and artificial intelligence processing. The GPU designer dove into the HPC market over a decade ago when it launched the G80 and its parallel compute platform API, CUDA. Early leadership has paid off for …

It’s very rare these days that a hotel will give you a real key when you check in. Instead, most chain hotels and mid-sized establishments have switched over to electronic locks with a keycard system. As researchers from F-Secure have discovered, these electronic locks may not be very secure. Researchers …