Kaby Lake is Intel's generation of processors, and it's starting to appear in all sorts of laptops. Here's everything you need to know. Contributions from David Ludlow The below information is only about laptop hardware: desktop chips ...
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Naked Labs, a Silicon Valley fitness tech startup, will take a stab at the fitness tracking space in a way the industry has not yet seen. Instead of going wearable, the company designed a full-length body scanning mirror, a scale that ...
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Lenovo has announced several new desktop PCs at CES, and in a move that’s sure to give Microsoft heartburn, one of these new machines is an all-in-one that runs the Android operating system, not Windows. Here is a rundown of what it ...
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With Microsoft losing its controversial CEO, Apple launching new iPads and iPhones and the rise of wearable devices all making headlines, it's been another huge year for technology. That's before you look at the gobbling up of Nokia, ...
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The latest generation of Intel's lineup of Core processors, known as fourth-generation (or Haswell), is performing as expected, with our first batch of tests turning up laptops with notably long battery life and generally excellent ...
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A row is brewing over benchmarks used to assess the performance of smartphone semiconductors after one of the tools had to be revised following claims of discrepancies over its results. The AnTuTu benchmark, which is used on Android ...
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The supercomputing arms race is heating up again between the United States and China, as China retakes the top spot in the 41st Top500 listing of the world's most powerful supercomputers with Tianhe-2, an updated system that was able to ...
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Intel this year plans to sell a set-top box and Internet-based streaming media service that will bundle TV channels for subscribers, but its plans will likely face hurdles from the 800-pound gorillas of the streaming media market. In ...
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Intel expects tablets containing its upcoming Atom processor code-named Bay Trail will cost under $200, a company executive said Wednesday. "We believe we can push it well below the $199 price point," said Hermann Eul, vice president and ...
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Microsoft and Apple last week kicked off promotions that may signal inventory clearing as they prepare their next generations of hardware. On Friday, Microsoft debuted a deal that hands a free keyboard-cover to buyers of its Surface RT ...
Microsoft's update of its Windows 8 operating system, code-named Windows Blue, will be available later this year, supporting a variety of form factors and display sizes, and providing more options for both businesses and consumers. "The ...
The low-power capabilities of ARM-based processors have created high expectations for their use in servers, but one of Dell's top engineers said they are unlikely to take off until 64-bit versions hit the market. "I don't think you'll see ...
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Hewlett-Packard in the future will offer customized Moonshot servers at different prices and also offer configurations with ARM and Intel Xeon processors. HP on Monday started shipping the first offering in its new class of hyperscale ...
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When Intel's move into the TV service arena was first announced last year, there was a lot of speculation that it would be the first TV service to offer a la carte pricing, finally "unbundling" TV programming by letting viewers subscribe ...
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Microsoft's new version of Windows written for ARM processors may not be an unqualified success, but ARM CEO Warren East said the software maker will learn from its mistakes with Windows RT and come back with a better product. "I'm well ...
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