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Intel’s response to Spectre and Meltdown has been, on balance, fairly good. While the company’s initial PR on the subject left much to be desired, it followed up with much clearer reporting on the scope of the problem. The actual rollout of solutions has been slow and fitful, but that’s …

Intelligence-sharing agreements between various countries are nothing new; the United States’ “Five Eyes” agreement between Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the UK, and the US is one well-known top-level alliance for sharing signals intelligence that dates back to the post-WW2 era. It’s just one of many systems, both formal and informal, …

Over the weekend, a rumor surfaced that the Trump Administration might nationalize the United States’ burgeoning 5G network. A plan laying out such options was reportedly presented at the White House. Allowing wireless providers to create their own wireless 5G network was argued to cost more and take longer than …

All the cameras in your life thus far have been entirely under your control — you get to decide what they film and for how long. Google’s upcoming Clips camera is different. It uses machine learning to decide what’s important, then processes or discards the footage accordingly. Google unveiled this …

With 4K TVs now boringly mass-market, it was inevitable vendors at CES would begin casting about for the Next Big Thing. For now, until some other tech advance presents itself, TV manufacturers have settled on 8K. And with 8K sets launching in 2018, that resolution will be available (technically) later …

Intel announced its Q4 2017 and full year 2017 earnings, in what has to be one of the higher-profile earnings calls the company has ever done. For the past three weeks, Intel has taken unrelenting heat for the Spectre and Meltdown flaws. On the one hand, it’s true Intel is …

At first glance, Montana and New York State don’t have much in common. New York has a reputation as an urban blue state, though this is partly the result of the general public’s conflation of New York City with the entirety of New York State. Montana is known for being …

Stealth cryptocurrency mining in one’s browser, without the user’s permission, is one of our least-favorite trends of the past six months. While there were always questions about whether cryptocurrency mining in-browser could serve as an alternate revenue stream for websites, there was at least an idea that some kind of …

Samsung has been riding high on the success of the Galaxy S8 and Note 8, but it’s not resting on its laurels. In just one month, Samsung will unveil the Galaxy S9 . February 25th is the big day, and it’ll take place at the opening of Mobile World Congress …

Spectre and Meltdown are two of the most significant security issues to surface since the beginning of this millennium. Spectre, in particular, is going to be difficult to mitigate. Both AMD and Intel will have to redesign how their CPUs function to fully address the problem. Even if the performance …