Microsoft just released preview versions of its Chromium-powered Edge browser today. If you’ve downloaded it to test it, you’ve probably noticed it’s very stable and performs surprisingly well. It even performs better than Google’s own Chrome browser on Windows 10, despite being built on the same Chromium open-source project. While it’s early days for Microsoft’s […]
Now that AMD has unveiled second-gen Ryzen chips for everyday laptops, it’s turning its attention to the pro crowd. It’s releasing a new wave of Ryzen Pro processors aimed at “premium” (but still highly portable) work machines. The four-core Ryzen 3 Pro 3300U, Ryzen 5 Pro 3500U and Ryzen 7 Pro 3700U all take advantage […]
Android Q Beta 2 is now available, and it adds a new batch of features for beta testers to try out. Most of Google’s major changes affect the Android UI in this version. These include new gesture controls, app management options, new notifications, and changes to the general design, but there are a few system-level changes […]
The Singularity Is Here Unfortunately for our new AI overlords, the crusade to take over the world has been stopped in its tracks by an unlikely hurdle: a 16-year-old’s math test. Faced with the same level of exam that a 16-year-old in the U.K. would take, according to a new paper by Google’s DeepMind, its cutting-edge AI flunked. Artificial Mathlete […]
To safely remove or not to safely remove? That is the question… although another one might reasonably be, “well, what difference does it really make?”. Since the arrival of USB drives, we have been warned that they need to be “safely removed” using the correct method in Windows, rather than just being yanked out — […]
Recent news of significant corporate investments in artificial intelligence (AI) suggests this technology is moving toward mainstream use. Evidence for this includes DocuSign injecting $15 million into an AI contract discovery startup, Apple absorbing an AI camera developer, and CIO reporting that banks are expected to spend $5.6 billion on AI solutions in 2019, “ushering […]
Preliminary info for AMD’s upcoming 7nm Zen 2 based, 3rd Gen Ryzen Threadripper ‘Castle Peak’ high-end desktop and EPYC Rome server processors has been added in the latest version of AIDA64. The new processors are expected to debut in the second half of 2019, offering more cores and better performance than their predecessors. AMD Ryzen […]
China has quite the reputation for monitoring its citizens, and it feels like various parts of the country are constantly figuring out new ways to use gadgets to that end — RFID chips in cars, facial recognition sunglasses, and location-tracking uniforms for students each made headlines in the past year. Now, you can add sanitation […]
The Global Positioning System time epoch is ending and another one is beginning, an event that could affect your devices or any equipment or legacy system that relies on GPS for time and location. Most clocks obtain their time from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). But the atomic clocks on satellites are set to GPS time. […]
Last year, Microsoft won a $479-million-plus contract with the U.S. Army to build Integrated Visual Augmentation System (IVAS) prototypes that a government document described as intended to “accelerate lethal defensive and offensive capabilities utilizing innovative components.” This weekend, CNBC got a look at what Microsoft has been cooking up in the form of a modified […]
New and improved answer styles are rolling out for Google Assistant, including more visual and interactive elements. The update comes with one change that’s not an improvement, though: depending on your query, the Assistant might answer with ads like the ones you see in normal Google searches. The announcement post for the more feature-rich Assistant results touched on […]
The ongoing, tiresome feud between Apple and Amazon continues. According to a Thursday report from Bloomberg, Amazon is looking to kick this competition into high gear with Alexa-linked earbuds it hopes will rival AirPods. Not only will these earbuds aim for higher quality audio than AirPods, according to Bloomberg’s sources familiar with the matter, they […]
