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Today’s topics include Intel acquiring longtime partner eASIC to add structured ASICs to its product lineup, and Microsoft challenging Slack with a free version of its Teams collaboration tool. Intel is acquiring longtime partner eASIC, a maker of structured ASICs, which are chips that combine the performance and power efficiency found in standard-cell ASICs with […]

Today’s topics include Google introducing a Cost Forecast feature to its cloud billing tool, and SonicWall reporting a spike in ransomware attacks in the first half of 2018. Google has introduced a new cloud-billing feature that lets administrators see much they are likely to spend on cloud usage in a particular month. Cost Forecast for Cloud […]

Today’s topics include Chinese chip maker Hygon building x86 chips modeled on AMD’s Epyc design, and Microsoft introducing the Surface Go two-in-one tablet for $399. Advanced Micro Devices in 2016 announced a joint venture deal with Chinese chip maker Hygon to produce x86 processors based closely on AMD’s Epyc server chips. Two years later, the […]

Today’s topics include facial recognition showing promise in corporate security, and Seagate releasing a fast 2TB solid-state disk for laptops and desktops. It only took a matter of minutes for investigators to identify the man they had in custody for the Capital Gazette newspaper shootings thanks to Maryland’s new facial recognition system. This is one […]

Today’s topics include Google clarifying app developer access to Gmail content, and Microsoft adding Visio support to its Teams app. The Wall Street Journal last week published a lengthy report on the practice by Google and some other email providers of allowing third-party software developers to access the contents of email messages.  On July 3, […]

Today’s topics include Google cutting off a cloud platform customer without warning, and Dell going public after five years as a private company.  On July 2, Google engineering support regional lead Brian Bender apologized for suspending services on a large customer account and outlined several measures Google plans on taking to ensure the same thing […]

Today’s topics include the EU Parliament voting against adopting a strong copyright law, and HPE releasing the SimpliVity 2600 hyperconverged system. The European Parliament voted on July 5 against a proposal from the European Commission to adopt a strong copyright law that would have required websites and other internet services accessible to EU residents to […]

Hey there, here are your top news stories from eWEEK. Today’s topics include California passing a new data privacy law, and MongoDB launching new features for its NoSQL platform. California passed a new data privacy law on June 28 in an attempt to rectify the excesses revealed by Cambridge Analytica and other organizations lately in […]

Today’s topics include the federal government beginning work on the proposed T-Mobile-Sprint merger, and Gentoo Linux reporting a GitHub hack. Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai has named David Lawrence, a former Justice Department antitrust lawyer, to head the task force that will coordinate the agency’s review of T-Mobile’s and Sprint’s plans to merge. The […]

Today’s topics include Microsoft introducing Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2, and the U.S. taking the fastest supercomputer title with IBM’s Summit. On June 27, Microsoft unveiled new cloud capabilities that further lower the barriers to big data analytics. One new service is Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2, which, according to Tad Brockway, general manager of […]