The U.S. market has no real frontrunner poised to claim TikTok’s throne if the app is banned in the country. According to Trump’s executive order, TikTok’s owner ByteDance has to divest of TikTok’s U.S. operations or the app will be banned from the U.S. market on November 12. A number …
Read More »Microsoft Deploys AI
Microsoft is deploying Nvidia’s new A100 Ampere GPUs across its data centers, and giving customers a massive AI processing boost in the process. Get it? In the– (a sharply hooked cane enters, stage right) Ahem. As I was saying. The ND A100 v4 VM family starts with a single …
Read More »Adobe Lightroom App
Lightroom is the de facto standard for photo processing and management across most computing platforms. Sure, there are alternatives but they’re not as good, and comparatively few people use them. That’s why it’s a big deal when Adobe produces a Lightroom update that deletes photos, which is what it …
Read More »Popular Fertility App?
Premom, one of the top pregnancy apps on both Android and Google Play, bills itself as a method of helping you “get pregnant quickly and naturally.” It offers fertility and ovulation tracking and asks individuals to upload detailed information about their sexual health in order to provide advice on …
Read More »Pixel 5 Leaks Better
Google teased the upcoming Pixel 5 and 4a 5G a few weeks back when it finally launched the long-delayed Pixel 4a. We only got to see a tiny sliver of the device at the time, but now we have the first reliable leak of the design. The new render …
Read More »BlackBerry Keyboard
BlackBerry used to dominate the “smartphone” market back when those devices were not really very smart. The Canadian company never adapted to a post-iPhone world, and even switching to Android didn’t help. Earlier this year, TCL announced it was ending its agreement to build BlackBerry Android phones. It’s not …
Read More »GeForce Chromebooks
Cloud gaming is just starting to become a viable technology with new platforms like Stadia and xCloud gearing up to offer next-gen titles. Nvidia, however, has been toiling on GeForce Now for years — it first debuted the technology as “Grid” in 2013. Today, GeForce Now is a service …
Read More »SSD Prices Drop Q4 2020
2019 was a fabulous year to be in the market for a NAND SSD, with prices falling due to a supply glut. This isn’t at all unusual for the NAND flash industry, which typically alternates between boom and bust cycles as manufacturers first add capacity to respond to new …
Read More »Epic Games App Policies
Epic Games’ beef with Apple and Google has escalated quickly in the last 24 hours. The events of yesterday led to Fortnite’s removal from both the App Store and the Play Store, lawsuits against both Google and Apple, and lots of Twitter hashtags. Things started to snowball when Epic …
Read More »Intel’s Architecture Day
One of the areas Intel focused on during its Architecture Day 2020 event was its ongoing work to improve interconnect technology in both 2.5D and stacked 3D chip configurations. We’ve talked about these technologies in the past — they range from EMIB (used for Kaby Lake-G) and Foveros (Lakefield) …
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