Microsoft is making a series of moves marking the end of the Windows Phone. Last week, the company announced it was ending support for Windows Phone 8.1. This includes laying off their mobile phone staff last year, saying that the company was no longer focusing on phones. With Microsoft’s smartphone platform market share nearing zero, and other operating …
China’s quantum satellite has achieved two new milestones in long-distance quantum communications through space, blowing away the competition. Chinese researchers have already demonstrated, during June 2017, that their satellite ‘Micius’ could send entangled quantum particles to far-flung locations on Earth. Entangled particles have their properties remaining intertwined despite being separated by more than 1,200 kilometers. …
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Traders are warning that the cryptocurrency Bitcoin could crash this week. Anyone holding bitcoin could soon face some unsettling problems—up to and including financial losses, whipsawing prices and delays in processing payments. But wait… It’s also possible that nothing much may change. It all depends on whether the people who maintain bitcoin can agree by …
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Microsoft today released a new Windows 10 preview for PCs with Edge, shell, notification, input, gaming, Task Manager, and Hyper-V improvements. This is the sixth build of the upcoming Windows 10 Fall Creators Update, which is slated to arrive later this year (likely in September). Windows 10 is a service, meaning it was built in a very different way from its …
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As the expected fall debut of Apple’s new phones nears, rumors have taken hold about the new models this week, based on new reports from analysts and leaks from Apple’s supply chain. As with all speculative reports, it’s best to take this information with a grain of salt. Apple did not immediately respond to a …
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Ace physicist Stephen Hawking gives humanity 1,000 years on Earth before it is wiped out—and 100 years to get out and colonize other planets. Such talk, and, of course, the quintessential human yearning for exploration and discovery, has fueled the search for alternative homes. Every now and then, reports of Earth-like conditions in our solar …
Most experts believe the first industry to be upended by autonomous driving will be the trucking sector. What better use case for driverless technology than long-haul trucking where most of the driving is confined to the highway? The Swedish startup Einride certainly buys into this vision. It recently unveiled a prototype of a self-driving truck that completely …
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Samsung Galaxy Note 8 is far from launch, but, thanks to leaks, we’ve already come to know quite a lot about the upcoming flagship. The latest one comes from Weibo user Ice Universe, who has quoted Korean media to disclose specifications of Galaxy Note 8. According to the user, Samsung Galaxy Note 8 will feature a …
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IBM has announced that it has been selected by a consortium of seven of Europe’s largest banks to build and host a new trade finance platform based on IBM Blockchain powered by Hyperledger Fabric. The platform is designed to simplify and facilitate domestic and cross-border trade for small and medium enterprises in Europe, while helping …
IBM and the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) announced recently that they are collaborating on a neural network based supercomputing system, which is powered by a 64-chip array of the IBM TrueNorth Neurosynaptic System. This scalable platform will feature an end-to-end software ecosystem designed to enable deep neural-network learning and information discovery. The system’s …
