New $29 Pine64 takes on Raspberry Pi Compute Module 3
Raspberry Pi’s new Compute Module 3 has serious competition coming its way from the maker of the Pine64 board computer.…
After first week, A.I. system is beating human poker players
A third of the way through a 20-day man vs. machine poker tournament, the artificial intelligence system has the hot…
AMD tries to drum up support for 32-core Zen server chip
At CES, AMD launched its first Zen chips for PCs, called Ryzen. Next on deck is the 32-core server chip…
Fraud for online holiday sales spikes by 31%
Fraud attempts on digital retail sales jumped 31% from Thanksgiving to Dec. 31 over the previous year, according to a…
Failure to patch known ImageMagick flaw for months costs Facebook $40k
It’s not common for a security-conscious internet company to leave a well-known vulnerability unpatched for months, but it happens. Facebook…
IDG Contributor Network: Alexa revisited: Reflections on living with Amazon's assistant
Last summer I wrote about my initial experience using Amazon Alexa. Alexa continues to be a hit, and was a…
U.S. alleges systemic employment discrimination at Oracle
The U.S. government says Oracle routinely and systemically pays white men more than women and minorities and that it favors…
At Davos, modern warfare could include death-dealing drones and illegal parking
A cloud of 3D-printed drones big enough to bring down the latest U.S. stealth fighter, the F35, was just one…
'Consumer Reports' retests MacBook Pro, adds it to 'Recommended' list of laptops
Consumer Reports gave Apple’s latest MacBook Pro laptops its envied “Recommended” label last week after retesting the notebooks, ending a…
Snowden allowed to stay in Russia longer
U.S. National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden will be allowed to stay in Russia for “another couple of years,” according…