Monthly Archives: January 2018
HP Recalls 50,000 Laptop Models After Battery Fires, Melting Incidents
HP Inc. is voluntarily recalling about 50,000 laptops, notebooks and mobile workstations due to eight incidents of fires, overheating and melting of the lithium-ion...
Google Removes Nearly Two Dozen Malware-Laden Android Apps From Play
In a routine that has played out numerous times over the past year, Google recently had to remove nearly two dozen applications from its...
Samsung Displaces Intel Atop Semiconductor Market
In what has already been a particularly bad week for Intel, Gartner analysts said the company for the first time since 1992 is not...
Operating System Vendors Rushing Out Fixes for Intel Chip Flaw
Today’s topics include operating system vendors' efforts to issue a fix for an Intel chip flaw; Microsoft's acquisition of Avere Systems for its cloud...
Opera 50 Web Browser Features Crypto-Currency Mining Protection
Opera 50 Web Browser Features Cryptocurrency Mining Protection
Unauthorized browser-based cryptocurrency mining has become a big problem in recent months, and it is a problem...
WP Engine Raises $250M to Grow WordPress Platform
The open-source WordPress content management system has grown significantly over the last eight years and along with that growth, one of its leading backers,...
Lenovo Introducing Multiple ThinkPad Notebooks at CES 2018
Lenovo Introducing Multiple ThinkPad Notebooks at CES 2018
Lenovo on Jan. 4 announced updates to a variety of its ThinkPad notebook models, including the T-Series,...
Why Cloud Services Became the ‘New Normal’ in 2017
New IT market data released Jan. 4 by Synergy Research Group shows that across six key cloud services and infrastructure market segments, operator and...
Google Introduces Preemptible GPU Compute Option for Cloud Customers
Organizations that are using Google's cloud infrastructure to run large compute-intensive workloads now have a relatively cheaper option for this service.The company this week...
Microsoft, Adaptive Biotechnologies Work on AI-Enabled Immunology
Microsoft and Seattle-based immuno-sequencing company Adaptive Biotechnologies announced on Jan. 4 the formation of partnership that will bring artificial intelligence to bear on early...