Although touch screens have been an incredible innovation for facilitating speedy computing and other creative works, our fingers haven’t evolved to be quite so delicate. As such, many people prefer to use a stylus when working with tablets and other touch screens. If you’re looking for a better, more facile …
Read More »Raptor Lake Performance Boost
Even though a lot of us are galavanting around and enjoying summer, Intel is hard at work prepping Raptor Lake for its impending launch. This means more CPUs are getting into the hands of system builders, allowing for more benchmarks to “leak” to the public. The latest numbers to appear …
Read More »IBM’s New System Z CPU
IBM shared new details on its upcoming Telum CPU at Hot Chips, and the new microarchitecture looks to be a significant advance over the older z15. This will be IBM’s first 7nm CPU built using Samsung’s EUV and a huge step forward for Samsung as far as demonstrating its EUV …
Read More »iPhone 12 Mini Production
Apple released a new generation of iPhones late last year, and the says of just one or two new iPhones are dead and gone — there are five members of the iPhone 12 family, including the iPhone 12 Mini. You probably heard a lot of banter about the tiny …
Read More »Chip Demand Outstrips
Last year, a lot of semiconductor companies promised they’d be exiting the current supply crunch by the end of Q1 2021. In January, we started hearing companies say they thought the shortages could last until the end of Q2. Now, analysts are predicting they could actually persist for the …
Read More »Apple’s New M1 SoC
Yesterday, Apple announced its new M1 SoC. It’s an impressive piece of work — I’ll share some thoughts on it here — but I want to get one thing out of the way upfront. Apple made a lot of claims about the M1’s performance relative to x86 that I …
Read More »Firefox Mozilla Employee
Mozilla, the non-profit organization behind the development of the Firefox web browser, has announced it is firing 250 people or roughly one-quarter of its workforce. The company’s blog post announcing these changes reads like some kind of utopian fan fiction. It declares “Changing World, Changing Mozilla” before opening with: …
Read More »IAB: Paid search was 48 percent of total digital spend in 2016
Paid search advertising accounted for roughly $35 billion in 2016, split almost evenly between the desktop and mobile. That’s according to the IAB’s 2016 revenue report, released yesterday. On a percentage basis, desktop paid search declined by 10 points and was down by a little under $3 billion in real …
Read More »Google says it cuts JPEG size by 35 percent with new Guetzli algorithm, but our tests don’t back that up
Google has announced a new and improved JPEG implementation that it claims can shrink file sizes by as much as 35% with better image quality than you’d see in an equivalent standard JPEG file. That kind of improvement would be significantly useful, if true — repeated studies have shown a …
Read More »iProspect: 2017 mobile CPCs up 26 percent, Shopping spend up 41 percent
In its quarterly Paid Search Trends report, digital marketing agency, iProspect, says 2016 was “the year of efficient growth” for paid search. It was a year in which click volume rose and cost per click (CPC) went down. Overall, impressions rose 19 percent, clicks were up 15 percent in 2016 among …
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