Canonical killing Unity for Ubuntu Linux, will switch to the superior GNOME
Ubuntu was never going to succeed on phones and tablets, and Unity just fragmented an already crowded and confusing Linux community.
Google says its AI chips outperform CPUs, GPUs in performance tests
The TPUs are faster at neural net inference, and excel at performance per watt
Blue Origin rockets lift off on $1B a year from Jeff Bezos
Space isn’t cheap. That has Bezos digging deep into his Amazon riches.
Facebook makes it easier to find groups that brands care about
The social network tells it’s testing new features that let brands call attention to specific groups, or just link Pages and groups.
Nvidia Titan Xp gets an update
The company squeezes out a bit more juice for every-frame-counts gamers. Plus, it delivers Mac drivers for Pascal-based cards.
Xbox One Project Scorpio specs: 12GB GDDR5, 6 teraflops, native 4K at 60FPS
Release date and pricing yet to be announced—but expect it to be expensive.
Adobe designing app that can make image processing simpler
Adobe Sensei is the company’s artificial intelligence and machine learning framework that’s already powering part of its online photo-matching services, but it wants it to help simplify image processing, too. Similar technologies, like Google’s Deep Dream, have already melted our brains with over-processed imagery reminiscent of a bad drug trip, but as a new teaser …
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YouTube TV has promise, but needs to grow before it’s worth $35
With its limited geographic availability, Swiss-cheese channel lineup and Chromecast-centric TV support, YouTube TV is a boy among live TV streaming men.
Apple is upgrading millions of iOS devices to a new modern file system today
Apple has been using its 31-year-old Hierarchical File System (HFS) for iOS devices so far.
New AI Algorithm Beats Even the World’s Worst Traffic
Computer scientists at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore have developed a new intelligent routing algorithm that attempts to minimize the occurrence of spontaneous traffic jams—those sudden snarls caused by greedy merges and other isolated disruptions—throughout a roadway network. It’s both computationally distributed and fast, requirements for any real-world traffic management system. “We assume that the traffic …
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