Technology

Digital transformation has been positioned as a cure-all to many of the challenges today’s enterprises face. But to fully reap the benefits of a digital transformation, businesses need to do more than just adopt the latest tools and apps. They also have to change their attitudes, practices and processes around …

Speaker: Qingshan Lin (Longji) (Co-Founder of Apache RocketMQ, Senior Technical Expert of Alibaba Cloud, and Head of Alibaba Cloud’s Message Product Line) is an expert in the international messaging field, committed to the research and exploration of messaging, real-time computing, and event-driven architecture, promoting the evolution of RocketMQ cloud-native architecture …

(Photo: Apple headset render via Antonio DeRosa)Apple seems to be getting close to the launch of its much-hyped AR/VR headset, as it’s reportedly settled on a name for the operating system. Noted Apple soothsayer Mark Gurman is reporting it’s going to be xrOS. This is shorthand for “extended reality,” as …

Qualcomm announced its next flagship mobile processor just a few days ago, and Vivo is wasting no time while the new chip is still top of mind. The Chinese smartphone giant has announced the new X90 Pro Plus, the first smartphone to ship with the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2. It …

Cerebras unveiled its new AI supercomputer Andromeda at SC22. With 13.5 million cores across 16 Cerebras CS-2 systems, Andromeda boasts an exaflop of AI compute and 120 petaflops of dense compute. Its computing workhorse is Cerebras’ wafer-scale, manycore processor, WSE-2. Each WSE-2 wafer has three physical planes, which handle arithmetic, …

(Image: Microsoft)We’re a couple years into the remote work revolution now, and video meetings’ novelty is long gone. Though some people have returned to the office (by force or by choice), others are still working from home at least some of the time, which means they’re probably continuing to endure …

(Photo: Nina Filippova/Wikimedia Commons)Printed circuit boards, or PCBs, serve as the heart of many devices by connecting a network of electrical components together. But despite PCBs’ omnipresence, few of us think about what happens to this internal hardware once it reaches the end of its life. The plastic used to …

Apple unveiled the iPhone 14 a few months ago, and even by the standards of Apple, this is at best an iterative improvement for the iPhone line. There is one new and potentially important feature though: Emergency SOS. This feature, exclusive to the iPhone 14, can communicate with satellites to …

(Photo: Schaffer-Nishimura Lab)Enter the Schaffer-Nishimura Lab at Cornell University, and you might stumble upon a mouse experiencing virtual reality (VR) for the very first time. They’re not having an immersive game night, but they are a part of the next best thing: neuroscience research. Dr. Chris Schaffer and Dr. Nozomi …

(Photo: Air.0)Remote work and education opportunities are more prevalent now than ever before, and with them comes a slew of new hardware options that aim to meet the moment. Among today’s travel options is the Air.o mouse, a wireless mouse that folds up like a piece of origami to be …