The US now can claim the top two machines on a list of the 500 fastest supercomputers, as Sierra, an IBM machine for nuclear weapons research at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, edged out a Chinese system that last year was the very fastest. The Top500 list ranks supercomputers based on how quickly they perform a …
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Amazon has signed a deal to expand the selection of Apple products on its sites worldwide. The world’s largest e-commerce company said Friday it’ll soon start selling more Apple products directly and have access to Apple’s latest devices, including the new iPad Pro, iPhone XR, iPhone XS, and Apple Watch Series 4, as well as Apple’s lineup of Beats headphones. The Amazon-Apple …
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The criticisms started piling up as soon as Flickr said it would end its free terabyte of photo storage and delete all but a member’s 1,000 most recent photos unless the member upgraded to a $50 annual pro subscription. “Internet say goodbye” to “11,000 photos that were hosted on #flickr,” said one tweet. “I’m sad to lose all the comments …
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When the iPhone X was released last year, it ushered in a new look and feel for Apple’s handsets. The company got rid of the home button, offered a new Face ID unlock feature in return, and used a bigger and richer new type of screen called OLED for the display. It turns out some of the new displays Apple …
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Samsung’s much-hyped foldable smartphone is indeed real. We all got a brief (and dimly lit) glimpse of it earlier this week. Sometime next year, Samsung says, it’ll hit the market. So now what? Smartphones with foldable displays could represent the next big leap in mobile technology, an innovation that’ll finally get us excited about the category again. (Need something soon? …
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There are certainly some good reasons to pay for Spotify Premium other than the obvious one about removing the ads. That’s not to say that the free version of Spotify is an ad-filled, shuffle-only affair. Far from it. Here’s a handful of tips on how to get the most out of Spotify for free. On-demand playlists One of the biggest …
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Giphy wants you to start watching movies. Really short movies. On Friday the company behind the popular website for animated GIFs — where people go to find the perfect expression of their current mood — rolled out a new page on the site for videos of 30 seconds or less. “Giphy is now looking to the future — the future …
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A Chinese principal lost his job after hidden cryptocurrency mining machines were found sucking up his school’s electricity. The Ethereum-mining devices were discovered after teachers at the school in southeastern Hunan province got suspicious about a whirring noise they were hearing all day and night, the BBC reported Friday, citing local media. Cryptocurrency mining becomes more lucrative as you add …
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This year, Black Friday will get started early. Like, on Thursday. You may want to experiment with a Thanksgiving lunch instead of Thanksgiving dinner on Nov. 22. Best Buy and Walmart have both announced that their in-store Black Friday sales will kick off on the evening of Thanksgiving Day. Best Buy will open its stores from 5 p.m. local time on …
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Mark Zuckerberg, are you betting we all have a short memory? Do you and your team at Facebook really think people will look past all the controversies that have happened this year — TL;DR: 87 million Facebook users’ personal data co-opted by Cambridge Analytica — and buy a $200 internet-connected video camera and microphone from you, of all people, and …
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