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  The shovelware PC OEMs ship on their hardware is definitionally terrible; the handful of exceptions to this only serve to prove the rule. In early 2015, however, news broke that Lenovo hadn’t simply shipped poor bundled software, but had fundamentally destroyed internet security on its products in the process. …

  Google’s car-mounted Street View cameras have been traversing the globe for a decade, offering users the opportunity to stroll down a street from the comfort of their computer screen. However, the cameras used to gather this data haven’t improved in eight years. Google is in the midst of revamping …

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  Over the past few years, the rate of hard drive density improvements has dropped significantly. While Seagate and Western Digital have both pushed ahead with larger hard drives (often thanks to more platters and the use of helium), the actual rate of areal density increase has slowed these last …

  For the past 11 years, the Tor Project has focused on offering a secure browser that prevents websites or censors from determining what content you browse or how you use the internet. The system has never been perfect (no form of computer security is), but it’s still a critical …

  Earlier this year, Intel launched its Optane memory storage accelerators. The new drives, based on 3D XPoint technology, aren’t really faster than the SSD cache drives we’ve written about in the past, but the standard is relatively new and the technology is still under development. Now, Intel is hoping …

  Back in 2014, a fledging new startup with a song in its heart and highly dubious nutritional science in its soul, received an estimated $120 million in VC funding. Juicero was founded by Doug Evans, a man with a passion for organic groceries (see above regarding dubious nutritional science) …

Since before Threadripper launched, we’ve known that AMD had an eight-core variant of the chip waiting in the wings. The new CPU has hit the market as the Ryzen Threadripper 1900X, with eight cores, 16 threads, and support for AMD’s X399 motherboard platform. The Threadripper 1900X has a 3.8GHz base …

The advent of cloud computing, deep learning, and AI could revolutionize modern computing, but they’ve also created scaling problems. The vast majority of databases use a similar architecture: DRAM cache servers are used to store the most common queries. These cache servers are backed up by an SSD storage array …

The majority of US consumers still use 1080p TVs or below; 4K screens currently account for an estimated 15-20 percent of the US consumer market. With 4K content still ramping up, it might seem premature to focus on a future standard people won’t be able to take advantage of for …