On the same day as the new Mac mini and MacBook Air were unveiled last month, Blackmagic Design announced a new eGPU Pro destined for release in November. Apple today, however, has updated its webpage for the product to indicate the release has been pushed to December. The Blackmagic eGPU Pro features the powerful Radeon RX Vega 64 inside, […]
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Microsoft’s redesigned Office icons reflect its move to the cloud
Microsoft’s Office icons on Windows and the web have been conservative, to put it mildly. They’ve been functional things you click while you scramble to finish a business spreadsheet or school report. The company would like you to sit up and take notice this time around, though. It just unveiled redesigned Office icons that will […]
nCorium Startup joins LANL’s Efficient Mission Centric Computing Consortium for Ultra-scale Efficiency
The San Jose-based startup company nCorium has joined Los Alamos National Laboratory’s Efficient Mission Centric Computing Consortium (EMC3) in the quest for efficient, ultra-scale computing. Los Alamos and nCorium are co-sponsoring, along with other partners in EMC3, components in a laboratory, at the Ultra-Scale Systems Research (USRC) center associated with EMC3, to explore and evaluate […]
NIST atomic clocks now keep time well enough to improve models of Earth
Experimental atomic clocks at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have achieved three new performance records, now ticking precisely enough to not only improve timekeeping and navigation, but also detect faint signals from gravity, the early universe and perhaps even dark matter. The clocks each trap a thousand ytterbium atoms in optical lattices, […]
Google’s cheap and super-simple cellphone service will now work with iPhones
Google’s super-simple and cheap cellphone service will now work with a broader selection of devices, including iPhones from arch-rival Apple. Google Fi (formerly known as Project Fi) is a mobile virtual network operator (MVNO), which means that instead of just using one of the “big four” carriers, it automatically jumps between several cellular networks depending […]
Computing faces an energy crunch unless new technologies are found
There’s little doubt the information technology revolution has improved our lives. But unless we find a new form of electronic technology that uses less energy, computing will become limited by an “energy crunch” within decades. Even the most common events in our daily life – making a phone call, sending a text message or checking […]
A.I. will equalize health care in China, NovaVision CEO says
Artificial intelligence (A.I.) will level out the quality of health care in China in the coming decades, particularly closing the gap between rural and urban parts of the country, according to a CEO in the medical industry. Speaking at CNBC’s East Tech West conference in the Nansha district of Guangzhou, China, Jim Wang, CEO of […]
Chromebooks and Chrome tablets will get an option to show the tablet-optimized version of a website
Viewing the full web is one of the great parts of using a Chromebook, but sometimes the full web doesn’t feel quite so full – especially if you’re exploring it with a touchscreen. Much of the internet remains poorly-optimized for touch, and desktop websites are still, first and foremost, designed for point-and-click experiences. With the […]
YouTube will remove all pop-up annotations on January 15th
Back in March 2017, YouTube announced that it would be retiring annotations, those boxes that pop up during a video with links and additional information. It discontinued the annotations editor in May of last year and soon all existing annotations will be going away as well. The company added an update to the help page […]
Microsoft patches several versions of Windows 10
It’s not Patch Tuesday, but that doesn’t mean Microsoft can’t deliver a boatload of patches for various flavors of Windows 10 via Cumulative Updates (CUs). On November 27, Microsoft made available for download CUs for several of its older variants of Windows 10. By “older,” I don’t mean ancient. Microsoft rolled out today updates for […]
A CIO’s guide to AI dashboards
The presence of artificial intelligence-powered IT is growing in healthcare. More and more CIOs and caregivers are finding new uses for powerful AI to help its human users in the delivery of care, both behind the scenes and at the point of care. Dashboards are popular tools for healthcare executives and caregivers to use to […]
Apple launches app development program for female entrepreneurs
Apple is looking to better support female-identifying founders through its new Entrepreneur Camp, a technology lab focused on app development. The free two-week camp, which kicks off in January, will give female founders the opportunity to receive one-on-one coding assistance from Apple engineers, as well as attend sessions on design, technology and App Store marketing. […]