Technology

Recent visitors to Showtime’s website got more than competently produced, premium cable series streamed on-demand. They also got a spike in CPU usage, as Showtime used their systems to mine cryptocurrency. So, was this malware? Perhaps a bad ad infiltrated Showtime’s site? Nope, Showtime apparently intended to do this by …

Android co-founder Andy Rubin has is trying to get back into smartphones with his startup, known as Essential. The company made waves with the announcement of its nearly bezel-free smartphone earlier this year, but a new report suggests this experiment may be a flop. According to third-party data, Essential may …

When Apple announced the iPhone 8 and 8 Plus, it moved away from using metal for the back of its phones in favor of all-glass construction. The company promised that this would have no impact on device strength, claiming its metal backs were more resilient than ever. Multiple reviewers reported …

There’s been a huge surge of interest in topics like AI, machine learning, and deep learning over the last few years. Thus far, we’ve seen much of the market flow towards either GPUs (almost entirely Nvidia, though AMD might be tipping a toe into those waters), or to specialized architectures …

Nvidia and Tesla have worked together since the Model S first went on sale. Nvidia’s Tegra 3 powered the Model S’s console, and the two companies worked together on self-driving vehicles. Nvidia crowed about Tesla’s test-runs last year, declaring that its own Drive PX2 represented a “supercomputer” that would accelerate …

One of the trickiest parts of flying a drone is trying to look in two directions at once. Looking up at the drone gives you a good sense of where it is. But you need to look down to see either its location on the map or a view from …

For the last fourteen years, AMD and Nvidia have both supported multi-GPU configurations. Initially, these types of systems were limited to two GPUs using either Nvidia’s SLI technology (the acronym dates back to 3dfx) or AMD’s Crossfire. When Windows Vista launched, the supported number of video cards grew to encompass …

Microsoft, Facebook, and Telxius have finished their joint effort to run a massive bandwidth pipe 4,100 miles across the Atlantic Ocean. The new cable can transmit 160 terabits per second (20TBps). That’s rather a lot. The Marea cable is 17,000 feet below the surface of the ocean, at pressures that …

Scientists around the world have been dabbling in quantum computing for years, but most of the work has been focused on creating a reliable medium for running quantum calculations. The programming languages used in quantum computing have been of secondary importance. However, Microsoft is planning ahead with the upcoming release …

Apple just released the latest version of macOS, dubbed High Sierra, but the OS has a critical flaw zero-day flaw that allows rogue applications to export passwords in plaintext. Worse, the issue isn’t limited to High Sierra (10.13) either, but appears to affect multiple previous versions of the operating system. …