Ever since the cryptocurrency market heated up again, the video card market has been terrible. Consumers who wanted to buy a GPU have been stuck choosing between paying a 1.5x – 2x cost premium over standard MSRP or simply going without. Investors have been jittery about the end of the …
Read More »AMD’s Epyc Wins New Business With Yahoo Japan
Ever since it launched Ryzen a year ago, AMD’s investors have been pushing for the company to pick up more server customers. It’s not hard to see why — cloud computing, edge computing, data centers, HPC, AI, machine learning, and similar topics are generating most of the buzz and growth …
Read More »Apple Hires Away Google’s Head of AI
Apple was one of the first big technology companies to launch a digital assistant when Siri debuted on the iPhone 4S in 2011. Despite this early lead, Apple has focused more on hardware, allowing both Google and Amazon to lap it with their own digital assistant AI. Now, Apple …
Read More »Burst breaks you out of your filter bubble on Reddit
One of the many accusations about the trouble with Facebook – amid its data privacy concerns and enabling of Russian trolls – is that it keeps people locked into echo chambers where access to other viewpoints are limited. This is a common problem across social media, people are beginning to …
Read More »App Store shrank for first time in 2017 thanks to crackdowns on spam, clones and more
The App Store shrank for the first time in 2017, according to a new report from Appfigures. The report found the App Store lost 5 percent of its total apps over the course of the year, dropping from 2.2 million iOS apps in the beginning of the year, to 2.1 …
Read More »Intel Unleashes New Mobile Core i9 Processors at Nearly 5GHz
When Intel launched Coffee Lake last summer, it led with a relatively anemic lineup of desktop and mobile parts. The company is changing that today, and with a vengeance. Starting today, if you like Coffee Lake, there’s a great deal more of Coffee Lake to like, including new Core i9 …
Read More »In Lightroom and Photoshop, Adobe Puts Profiles and Presets Front and Center
Besides the rapid rise of smartphones, no other trend has been as hot in photography as one-click filters to quickly give photos a particular look. Made popular initially by mobile apps like Instagram and Snapseed, now they have spread to just about every photo app and sharing service. For users …
Read More »With GDDR6 Memory Production Scaling Up, New GPUs Won’t Be Far Behind
It’s been almost two years since Nvidia launched its Pascal architecture and the gaming community has been hungry to hear what’s coming next. It has stayed hungry, for the most part, because Nvidia hasn’t had much to say. Rumors from several months ago predicted a launch at GDC or GTC, …
Read More »Google Bans Cryptocurrency Mining Extensions from Chrome Store
One of 2017’s least helpful trends, for pretty much any definition of helpful, was the rise of so-called “cryptojacking” extensions and scripts. There was some hope, early on, that mining a cryptocurrency in one’s web browser while surfing a site could represent a better method of generating income than the …
Read More »Self-care startup Shine raises $5 million Series A
Shine, an early arrival in a market now teeming with self-care apps and services, has closed on $5 million in Series A funding, the company announced today, alongside the milestone of hitting 2 million active users. The round was led by existing investor by Comcast Ventures with betaworks, Felix Capital, …
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