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Microsoft slashes prices to compete with Chromebooks: The second coming of the netbook July 15, 2014 at 1:49 pm
The behemoth flails wildly. At its Worldwide Partner Conference, Microsoft has finally decided to compete with Chromebooks at the very lowest end of the PC market. Come fall, you’ll be able to get your hands on an HP Stream laptop running Windows 8 for just $200 — a Windows price point that we haven’t seen since the last time the PC market scraped the barrel (netbooks). With Chromebooks quickly gobbling up market share, and Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 failing to gain a significant foothold, Microsoft has clearly decided it’s time to resort to desperate measures.US government asserts unilateral right to access private data, even if it’s stored outside the US July 15, 2014 at 8:47 am
The US government is attempting to pry data out of Microsoft regarding a foreign national by claiming that it has a unilateral right to access information because Microsoft is a US company. Will such tactics fly in the post-Snowden era?Microsoft wants to be part of Judgment Day, too: Introducing the Project Adam artificial intelligence July 15, 2014 at 7:50 am
Microsoft has unveiled Project Adam, its new artificial intelligence that it claims is 50 times faster than comparable state-of-the-art systems deployed by the likes of Google. Adam can look at an image of almost anything and tell you exactly what it is; it can even differentiate between a Pembroke and Cardigan corgi. Notably, while similar AIs are moving to massively parallel GPU computing, Adam uses plain old CPUs in Microsoft’s Azure cloud — an impressive feat that is only possible thanks to Microsoft’s use of lock-free Hogwild! computing.Raspberry Pi 2 targeted for 2017, current model gets much-needed upgrade to Model B+ July 14, 2014 at 4:07 pm
The little computer that could, the Raspberry Pi, has been due for a hardware upgrade for quit some time, but the manufacturers have revealed that the anticipated day likely won’t come until 2017.Intel’s 14nm puzzle: As Skylake details leak, everybody asks – is the chip coming in 2015 or not? July 14, 2014 at 2:15 pm
Now, fresh rumors have leaked on Intel’s Skylake chipset plans, all still pointing at a 2015 release. Will Intel pull an upset and launch two new processors inside 12 months?Forget Moore’s law: Hot and slow DRAM is a major roadblock to exascale and beyond July 14, 2014 at 11:10 am
Any attempt to truly push the future of computing means fundamentally redesigning memory — but after 40 years, can DRAM be easily swept aside?Leaked build of Windows 9 shows reborn Start menu, Metro apps running on the Desktop July 14, 2014 at 7:17 am
Over the last couple of days, screenshots that purport to be from an early build of Windows 9 (Threshold) have leaked online. Most notably, one of these screenshots includes the new, resurrected Start menu that Microsoft first showed off at its Build conference in April. Another screenshot shows Metro apps running in a window on the Desktop.Acer launches the first useful Chromebook with an Intel Core i3 CPU July 11, 2014 at 4:37 pm
Acer recently announced that it will be shipping the first Chromebook featuring an Intel Core i3 processor, and it will only cost about $350. As Chrome OS and Chromebook hardware both become more capable, the more Microsoft and Apple need to worry. Combined with Intel’s dogged support for Chromebooks, this latest push by Acer shows that Chromebooks can be much more than just cheap laptops for kids.How to use your PS4 as a media streamer without DLNA July 11, 2014 at 12:44 pm
As it stands, the PS4 doesn’t ship with DLNA streaming capability. It’s certainly possible that we’ll see support for the standard patched in eventually, but how are we supposed to play our media library on the PS4 right now? Thankfully, there is a way — and it’s legal.
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