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Rumor Points to New Foldable Moto Razr With 5G This Year Motorola was one of the first major smartphone makers to jump on the foldable phone bandwagon by reviving its long-dead Razr brand. The foldable Razr earned points for its slick design, but the specs and durability left something to …

AMD’s Upcoming Ryzen Refresh, Big Navi Debut Allegedly Leaked Thus far, AMD has been quiet about its plans for any Ryzen refresh cycle in 2020, though the ongoing coronavirus pandemic has undoubtedly scrogged up some of the company’s plans. We’ve seen a pair of leaks surface online claiming to share …

Level Up: Nvidia’s GameGAN AI Creates Pac-Man Without an Underlying Game Engine Nvidia has created the first generative network capable of creating a fully functional video game without an underlying game engine. The project was begun to test a theory: Could an AI learn how to imitate a game well …

Killer Move: Intel Acquires Rivet Networks Rivet Networks, the company behind Killer Networking products, has been acquired by Intel for an undisclosed sum. Rivet Networks began life as Bigfoot Networks, with a dramatic “Killer NIC” card that sold for $250 before pivoting to building software solutions to prioritize and classify …

Review: Comet Lake Paints a Target on AMD’s Matisse Today, after no small amount of speculation as to its overall performance and power consumption, the Intel Core i9-10900K and associated rest of the 10th Generation desktop family are up for review. It’s a significant moment for Intel, given the dominant …

Microsoft Built One of the Most Powerful Supercomputers in the World to Develop Human-Like AI Microsoft and OpenAI announced a partnership last year to develop new artificial intelligence technologies, and Microsoft just revealed the first product of this deal: a massively powerful supercomputer. The system is one of the top …

Ryzen 4000 CPUs on X470, B450 Motherboards Last week, we covered the news that AMD’s upcoming Zen 3 CPUs (presumably to debut under the Ryzen 4000 brand) would be incompatible with the company’s previous X470 and B450 motherboards. AMD has since decided to reverse course, citing end-user unhappiness with the …

Google May Ditch ‘Motion Sense’ Radar Feature on Pixel 5 The Google Pixel 4 and 4 XL finally made good on a technology demo from 2015 with the introduction of Motion Sense gestures. The Soli radar chip technology lets you control some aspects of the phone simply by waving your …

Microsoft: We Were on ‘The Wrong Side of History’ With Open Source   If you had to pick two groups of people unlikely to be sending each other Christmas cards in the tech industry, you could do worse than picking Microsoft and the open-source community (we’ll assume you’re on some …

TSMC Will Build 5nm Chip Foundry in Arizona TSMC has announced it will build a cutting-edge semiconductor foundry in Arizona, with plans to bring the fab online at the 5nm node. There are questions about just how big the factory will be and how central it is to the company’s …