By: Aaron Souppouris It’s not been impossible to get a MacBook Air with 8GB before now: since 2012 you’ve been able to upgrade for an additional $100. But that’s a 10% surcharge for something that’s almost essential for modern computing —… Continue Reading
By: Ian King Intel Corp. Chief Executive Officer Brian Krzanich is eliminating 12,000 jobs — the chipmaker’s deepest cutbacks in a decade — taking his most radical step yet to move Intel into new businesses and ease its dependence on the… Continue Reading
By: Evan Perez Senior cybersecurity officials from the U.S. and Russia are holding meetings this week on cybersecurity, renewing efforts to prevent the countries from mistakenly getting into a cyber war, U.S. officials say. [Read more…] Source: CNN
By: Danny Palmer Plans to remove support for Windows XP, Windows Vista, OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, OS X 10.7 Lion, and OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion were revealed in November 2015. Google justified the decision by citing how “these platforms… Continue Reading
By: Mark Hachman For only the second time in its history, the semiconductor market is expected to decline, as demand for PCs and mobile devices falls in 2016. Gartner reported that global semiconductor sales are expected to fall slightly, by 0.6… Continue Reading
Apple launched its first major customer service social media account, @AppleSupport, earlier this year, and it already has 282,000 Twitter followers. One of the main people behind it is 22-year-old Tai Tran. Apple offered him a full-time job running social media before… Continue Reading
By: Jon Hamilton Ian Burkhart, now 24, was paralyzed in 2010 after diving into a wave in shallow water. The accident left him with some arm movement but no use of his hands. Then, about two years ago, scientists in… Continue Reading
By: David Jones The U.S. Department of Homeland Security on Thursday issued a warning to remove Apple’s QuickTime for Windows. The alert came in response to Trend Micro’s report of two security flaws in the software, which will never be patched… Continue Reading
By: Annalee Newitz Facebook has become a social network for cyborgs. It happened yesterday at Facebook developer conference F8 while everyone was busy eye-rolling over Mark Zuckerberg’s keynote about saving the world. The company has launched a bot revolution, and ironically (or not), these bots… Continue Reading
By: Catalin Cimpanu A new ransomware variant called Jigsaw has come to light today, and it threatens and then deletes the user’s files if the ransom note is not paid in due time, or when the victim reboots their computer. [Read more…] Source:… Continue Reading