Technology

When Intel launched Skylake-SP (aka the Core X-series) earlier this year, one of the major features of the product family, in addition to a revamped L2 cache structure, was its support for Intel’s latest SIMD instruction set, AVX-512. AVX-512 has previously been reserved for Intel’s HPC (High-Performance Computing) Knights Landing. …

Apple tends to cycle at least some of its laptops through periodic updates, but it’s not uncommon for desktop products to go longer in between product cycles. The current Mac mini is a late-2014 model with a Haswell-based Core i5-4260U, Core i5-4278U, or a Core i5-4308U. An optional Core i7-4578U …

PayPal users in the U.S. will now be able to send and receive person-to-person payments over Facebook Messenger, the company announced this morning. The deeper integration with Messenger’s platform, which will also include PayPal’s first customer service bot for handling customer questions and requests for help, follows a series of …

We’ve said from the beginning Apple could be facing a serious problem with the iPhone 8, 8 Plus, and iPhone X. As demand for the first two has failed to materialize, and with Apple X shipments still far below what the company will need to meet demand, Apple’s decision to …

There’s an old XKCD comic that brilliantly captures the difficulty of creating a single unified standard to control all device interactions or capabilities. It’s not an entirely impossible goal–USB-A has dominated the market for keyboards, mice, thumb drives, and a number of other peripherals for many years–but the larger the …

Google today is announcing a number of changes to its Google Play app store, the most notable being a new way to try apps immediately without having to first install them on your mobile device. The new feature takes advantage of “Android Instant Apps” technology – Google’s attempt at bridging …

Last year, Microsoft demoed a number of ARM-based system running Windows 10 on a Snapdragon 820 processor. The company promised this new breed of machine would be vastly different from the Windows RT debacle that killed its plans for a separate ARM-derived computer market. This week, the company shared additional …

The government of Slovenia has revealed that it aims to place the nation as the leading Digital Slovenia 2020 occasion in mid-October 2017, Prime Minister Miro Cerar mentioned that the country’s regulatory companies and ministries are already studying the innovation and its possible applications. “The regulative bodies and ministries are …

Every now and then–but much more rarely, now that the phone market is generally viewed as being ‘mature’ in the developed world–a phone manufacturer comes out with a device that makes you stop and ask yourself what the designer was thinking. Android manufacturer ZTE, generally viewed as a budget device …

Science-fiction authors and modern technology mega-corporations agree on one thing–artificial intelligence is the future. Everyone from Google to Facebook is designing artificial neural networks to tackle big problems like computer vision and speech synthesis. Most of these projects are using existing computer hardware, but Intel has something big on the …