“Today, AMD launched its Rome Second Generation EPYC CPUs, the AMD EPYC 7001 & 7002 series,” writes Slashdot reader SolarAxix. “Was the hype real? According to Anandtech’s review of the top-of-the-line EPYC 7742 with 64 cores and 128 threads (for a total of 128 cores and 256 threads), it seems to be the case.” From the report: …So has AMD done…
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Google Pledges Carbon-Neutral Shipping, Recycled Plastic For All Devices
Alphabet’s Google on Monday announced that it would neutralize carbon emissions from delivering consumer hardware by next year and include recycled plastic in each of its products by 2022. From a report: The new commitments step up the competition among tech companies aiming to show consumers and governments that they are curbing the environmental toll from their widening arrays of gadgets….
It’s 2019, and One Third of Businesses Still Have Active Windows XP Deployments
As end of support for the still-popular Windows 7 draws near, risks of unpatched operating systems are likely to be a significant security concern in the near future. intensivevocoder writes: There is a relatively old — though still fundamentally true — adage about Windows: Microsoft’s biggest competition is Microsoft, as a specific subset of users (and businesses) only upgrade to the…
Teenagers Win Millions At Fortnite World Cup
$30 million in prizes were up for grabs, the largest ever for an esports event, and more than 40 million attempted to qualify for a spot. Now IGN reports:
The grand champion of the Fortnite World Cup finals has been crowned. Kyle “Bugha” Giersdorf, a 16-year-old American boy, took home the trophy and a $3 million prize… “Words can’t even explain [how…
Facebook’s Co-Founder Is Now Lobbying the Government To Break Up The Company
Facebook cofounder Chris Hughes isn’t just idly wondering if regulators might break up the tech behemoth he helped launch. He’s going on a personal tour, meeting with state and federal officials to lay out in detail the way he thinks it could be done. Hughes has met with members of Congress, the Justice Department’s Antitrust Division, the Federal Trade Commission, and…
Why DRAM Chipmakers Need Their Own OPEC
DRAM is just as much a commodity as oil. But manufacturers can only dream about the benefits of negotiating supply together. From a report: You’ve got to feel for the world’s biggest suppliers of DRAM. Makers of these chips, which temporarily store information in PCs, smartphones and services, endured years of boom-bust profit swings and bruising competition long before the trade…
Amazon ‘Destroyed the Retail Industry Across the US’ Says Treasury Secretary Mnuchin
U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said that Amazon “destroyed the retail industry across the United States” and that it’s appropriate for the attorney general to investigate the company alongside other tech giants in the sweeping antitrust review that the Justice Department announced yesterday. “There’s no question they’ve limited competition,” Mnuchin told CNBC’s Squawk Box. From the report: Mnuchin said that “although…
Justice Department To Open Broad, New Antitrust Review of Big Tech Companies
schwit1 shares a report from The Wall Street Journal: The Justice Department is opening a broad antitrust review into whether dominant technology firms are unlawfully stifling competition (Warning: source paywalled; alternative source), according to department officials, adding a new Washington threat for companies such as Facebook, Google, Amazon and Apple. The review is geared toward examining the practices of online platforms…
Elon Musk Promises Longer, Curved Tunnel For Future Hyperloop Contests
Shortly after the 2019 Hyperloop Pod competition ended, Elon Musk announced on Twitter that next year’s Hyperloop competition will be held in a six mile curved vacuum tunnel. Previously, the competition was held in a straight three-quarters of a mile test tunnel which is located at SpaceX’s headquarters in Hawthorne, California. Engadget reports: The Hyperloop competition is a student engineering challenge…
Amazon Offers $10 To Prime Day Shoppers Who Hand Over Their Data
Amazon.com has a promotion for U.S. shoppers on Prime Day, the 48-hour marketing blitz that started Monday: Earn $10 of credit if you let Amazon track the websites you visit. From a report: The deal is for new installations of the Amazon Assistant, a comparison-shopping tool that customers can add to their web browsers. It fetches Amazon’s price for products that…