Technology

Prior to the launch of Windows 10, Microsoft had a relatively simple update process. For the first five years of the OS’ lifespan, it received both security and feature updates. After this period ended, the OS still received security updates for another five years. (Windows 8.0 was an exception to …

EUV (Extreme Ultraviolet Lithography) has been a very long time coming to market. Initially predicted to be ready by 2004 (if not sooner), we’ve been waiting 13 years for the technology to arrive. Manufacturers like Intel, TSMC, GlobalFoundries, and Samsung have continued to advance 193nm lithography in the absence of …

For the past few years, the battle over AI, deep learning, and other HPC (High-Performance Computing) workloads has been mostly a two-horse race. It’s between Nvidia, the first company to launch a GPGPU architecture that could theoretically handle such workloads, and Intel, who has continued to focus on increasing the …

Google last year introduced an app called Motion Stills that aimed to help iOS users do more with their Live Photos – including being able to crop out blurry frames, stabilize images, and even turn Apple’s Live Photos format into more sharable GIFs. Today, Google says it’s bringing Motion Stills …

Google launched Google Now just over five years ago as part of Android 4.1 Jelly Bean. It has evolved over the years to be smarter and more useful, but Google’s energies are now focused elsewhere. After the flop of Google Now on Tap, the company pulled back on the “Google …

Computers aren’t just getting faster these days–they’re getting smarter. That’s thanks largely to artificial neural networks, which consist of multiple nodes of processing designed to interpret and understand data more like a biological brain. Neural networks are behind modern software features like voice recognition, computer vision, and even beating humans at …

There’s a new “unofficial” project to bring back classic WoW gaming — just not in quite the same form as the game’s original launch code. The new, unofficial (read: Blizzard un-approved) Felmyst server will target The Burning Crusade expansion as its setting rather than the original, vanilla, World of Warcraft. …

Intel and AMD have been locked in combat ever since Ryzen 7 debuted and put AMD back in the CPU race for the first time in six years. Both companies are prepping to release higher core count processors, but Intel is playing this game fairly conservatively, if recent rumors can …

Last week, Chinese literary critic, writer, poet, Nobel Peace Prize winner, and long-time civil rights activist Liu Xiaobo died of terminal liver cancer. Ever since then, China’s web of censorship and online suppression is reportedly working around the clock to prevent any sort of discussion or movement that could build …

For the last few months, Intel and AMD have been playing a bit of one-sided chicken. With AMD’s Ryzen and Epyc initial launch cycles nearly complete, we’ve seen the smaller CPU company aggressively take the fight to Intel in CPU pricing. And the market has responded — the Ryzen 7 …