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SAN JOSE, CA–A first-time attendee to Nvidia’s flagship GTC conference this week could be forgiven for thinking Nvidia was an AI company. CEO Jensen Huang’s 2+ hour keynote included mini-tutorials on various types of machine learning, and a nearly endless number of plugs for AI-based applications hosted on Nvidia GPUs. …

Microsoft has announced that Windows 10 is now used by 500 million devices every month, up from 300 million devices at this point last year. That’s an impressive growth rate year-on-year. And while Microsoft will never hit its original goal of one billion installations within three years (the collapse of …

Deep learning, self-driving cars, and AI are all huge topics these days, with companies like Nvidia, IBM, AMD, and Intel all throwing their hats into the ring. Now Cray, which helped pioneer the very concept of a supercomputer, is also bringing its own solutions to market. Cray announced a pair of …

Windows 10 is now running on 500 million devices. Sure, Microsoft had to pester and annoy many people to upgrade, but now there are that many more users who will get the newly announced Fall Creators Update. That’s the placeholder name for Microsoft’s next big Windows 10 update, which as …

Today, Intel released its last updates to the Itanium family, the Itanium 9700 series. These new cores, codenamed Kittson, will be the last Itanium processors Intel manufacturers. Kittson is the first update to Poulson, which debuted a new Itanium architecture back in 2012, but it includes no additional features or …

Microsoft’s Terry Meyerson raised eyebrows on Thursday when he announced Apple would bring iTunes to the Windows Store. What’s less clear is whether those eyebrows went up in joy or horror — Apple’s iTunes isn’t technically required if you want to use an iPhone any longer, but it still enjoys …

The high-end laptop market for engineering may be shrinking, as more work gets moved to the cloud, but there are still plenty of good options. Just like with gamers, engineers pose one of the toughest design challenges for laptop makers. Engineering applications need plenty of memory, graphics horsepower, and large screens …

The Amazon Echo seemed like a bizarre device when it was announced, but it was just the first home of Amazon’s Alexa voice assistant. Alexa has since expanded to more smart speakers, tablets, and phones. Now, Amazon is preparing to add a visual element to Alexa with the Echo Show ($229), …

Nvidia has another design win for its Drive PX artificial intelligence platform for autonomous driving: Toyota. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang made the announcement this week in the opening keynote of the company’s GPU Technology Conference in San Jose. Coming on the heels of Nvidia hookups with Mercedes-Benz and Audi, it’s …

Last week, news broke of a serious security flaw in Intel business chipsets dating back seven years. The flaw, which doesn’t affect consumer hardware, concerned products with Intel’s Active Management Technology, Intel’s Small Business Technology, and Intel Standard Manageability. Intel’s description of the flaw is as follows: There is an …