Technology

In increasing interest (and value) of cryptocurrencies has led some previously rational people to come up with some wacky schemes to get rich quick. Case in point: Several Russian scientists working in one of the country’s most secure research facilities thought they could use the in-house supercomputer to mine some …

Ever since AMD launched its first APU family, it’s been clear that faster RAM had a significant impact on performance. With the Ryzen 5 2400G, the potential impact of faster DDR4 could be even more significant. The CPU-GPU interconnect system uses AMD’s Infinity Fabric as well, and Infinity Fabric’s clock …

Apple is planning to change how it rolls out new features for iOS and macOS going forward, with the goal of improving the company’s overall scheduling and addressing certain concerns about the bugs and flaws in its ongoing products. iOS 11 has been criticized since launch for its problems, even …

Google has been working on its Tensor Processing Units, or TPUs, for several years now, and has released several papers on the performance of its customized architecture in inferencing workloads compared with more traditional models built around CPUs or GPUs. Now the company is opening these parts up for public …

The future of cardiovascular disease prevention and treatment will not be discovered in your medication cabinet, rather in your kitchen cabinet or in your back yard growing on a tree. Pomegranate Found To Prevent Coronary Artery Disease Development A research study released in the journal Atherosclerosis validates that pomegranate extract …

Verizon was forced to accept a deal it didn’t like 10 years ago when it acquired a license for the 700MHz “Block C” spectrum. That’s one of the main chunks of spectrum for Verizon’s LTE network, and it’s been forced to sell all its LTE devices carrier-unlocked ever since. Now, …

Some of the most interesting projects in computing are the “Just for fun,” builds that individuals dream up. A year and a half ago, we met the Megaprocessor, a room-scale CPU implementation with each and every component visible, clocked at a blistering 20KHz. Now we’ve got another from-scratch CPU implementation …

For the past 11 months, AMD has steadily pushed its Ryzen family of CPUs into the market, beginning with the Ryzen 7 1800X. Up until now, all of AMD’s Ryzen CPUs have lacked the integrated graphics component that defined the company’s midrange consumer products from the 2011 launch of Llano …

As 5G network deployments approach, mobile developers and telecoms are starting to spin into gear. 5G is a major advance over the 4G/LTE networks that debuted earlier this decade, and multiple companies are talking about 10 gigabit wireless performance and new, seamless connectivity options. There’s good reason to take all …

Microsoft’s upcoming Redstone 4 build of Windows 10 (aka Windows 10 Spring Creators Update) is still adding features, including several new capabilities of interest to enthusiasts — and a few puzzling changes unique to Windows 10 S. Let’s take a look at what’s in the pipeline. Nvidia and AMD have …