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Although many people are currently away on vacation, aside from tech journalists obviously, AMD engineers are apparently hard at work in their labs testing next-generation APUs. The distributed computing platform [email protected] recently posted a listing for a contributor with all the markings of a Zen 5 APU, which the company …

Rolls-Royce, the company best known for its fancy cars, also has an electric airplane. Recently, it took the aircraft called the Spirit of Innovation for a spin, breaking a couple of world records in the process — and by a large margin. According to Rolls-Royce, Spirit of Innovation has set …

After 10 months since the last update to the Search Quality Raters guidelines (PDF), Google has pushed out another update. The update came out Wednesday night. The Search Quality Raters guidelines document is now 175 pages, up from 168 at the last update on December 5, 2019. What is new? …

  Credit: Igor Golovniov/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Smartphones are, unfortunately, disposable pieces of technology. They’re hard to repair, have limited software support, and carriers constantly push upgrades. However, ATT has taken things to the extreme with its latest email to customers. Using clumsy and profoundly misleading language, ATT has …

Qualcomm Breaks 3GHz Barrier With Slightly Faster Snapdragon 865 Plus ARM Chip Most of the fancy new 5G phones on the market run on the Snapdragon 865, but that’s old news. Qualcomm has announced a new mobile chip, the Snapdragon 865 Plus. What’s “plus” about it? Well, not as much …

NASA’s Curiosity rover will have been on Mars for five years come this summer, and it’s held up surprisingly well. The rover’s mission has been extended essentially indefinitely. As long as Curiosity can do science, NASA will make use of it. The harsh Martian terrain has not been kind to …

With Windows-as-a-service, you never need to worry about installing a patch because every Microsoft patch is guaranteed, 100%, to always work, never cause problems, and certainly never break previous functionality. That, at least, is the official corporate line. Microsoft’s ability to deliver on that promise is highly questionable to nonexistent, …

Records are made to be broken, and last night La La Land proved the old adage true as it broke an almost forty year old tie between Midnight Express and One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by winning 7 Golden Globe Awards. Not only did it break the record, but …

On Friday of last week Jeremy Clarkson, James May and Richard Hammond returned to our screen in The Grand Tour on Amazon Prime Video. Amazon has now announced that the first show in the series has broken their previous viewing records. The debut episode of the highly anticipated new Amazon …