AMD Ryzen 4000G Desktop Chips Could Finally Deliver on the Promise of APUs AMD has announced its upcoming Ryzen 4000 G-series desktop chips, with availability expected in Q3. It’s a significant event for the company, given the current strength of its overall product line, and it’s intended to put pressure …
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A Competitive Apple ARM Core Could Finally Break x86’s Long Computing Monopoly Yesterday, reports surfaced claiming Apple will announce its first homegrown ARM CPU intended for desktop and laptop computing at WWDC in just a few weeks. Short-term, the announcement won’t change much, especially since Apple isn’t expected to launch …
Read More »Waymo’s claims of trade secret theft could result in criminal case
When Waymo sued Uber earlier this year, claiming that its former employee stole 14,000 documents containing trade secrets about its self-driving car project and took the documents to Uber, it was a stain on Uber’s reputation. Now, it looks like the damage could be more extensive — the judge in the …
Read More »Melting Moons Could Hold on to Atmospheres and Surface Water Oceans for Billions of Years
Exomoons around migrant hot Jupiters could hold onto life-giving atmospheres and maintain surface oceans for billions and billions of years. This is the conclusion of a paper from the University of Washington modeling the impact of inward migrating gas giants on their frozen moons. According Lehmer et al, moons around …
Read More »New Enceladus findings could have big implications in the search for alien life
Life as we know it requires liquid water, and until recently that seemed to be in short supply outside of Earth. However, recent studies of Mars and several moons have pointed to the presence of water. In fact, some moons may contain subsurface oceans with a larger total volume of …
Read More »Microsoft’s new Project Scorpio Xbox could blow the PS4 Pro out of the water, challenge high-end PCs
Microsoft finally announced some of the specifics of its upcoming Project Scorpio refresh, and the implications for the Xbox One product line are enormous. This isn’t just a refresh or a doubling-up of existing resources, like Sony used with the PS4 Pro. This is something altogether different, and Microsoft doesn’t …
Read More »New advances in directed self-assembly could push silicon below 10nm more efficiently than EUV
For years, Extreme Ultraviolet Lithography (EUV) has been broadly painted as the future of the industry, even as its supposed integration into mainstream manufacturing has been shoved further and further into the future. Now, a group of researchers at MIT have demonstrated compelling evidence that Directed Self-Assembly (DSA) might be …
Read More »Rising Global Temperatures Could Be Contributing to Worldwide Diabetes Epidemic
Growing global temperatures may be playing a part in the rising numbers of people developing type 2 diabetes, suggests new research from the Leiden University Medical Center and the Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands. Map of the United States (including Alaska, Hawaii and Puerto Rico), showing the mean annual …
Read More »7 Hot Button Political Topics that Could Impact Your Retirement Well Being
“All politics is personal,” so the saying goes. And, this year that phrase is especially true for people nearing retirement. There are a lot of hot button topics on the table that have the potential to impact your retirement well being — no matter where you stand on the political …
Read More »Being Parent Could Add Extra Years to Your Life
Parenthood is associated with a longer life than childlessness, particularly in older age, according to a study led by Karolinska Institute researcher Karin Modig. By the age of 60, the difference in life expectancy, which does not seem to be influenced by the sex of the child(ren), may be as …
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