The coronavirus outbreak could result in at least a 3.3% drop — and as high as a 9% dip — in the volume of PCs that will ship globally this year, research firm Canalys reported Thursday evening in its revised projections to clients. From a report: PC shipments will be down between 10.1% to 20.6% in Q1 2020, the firm estimated….
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Warning: Microsoft Pulls Windows 10 Security Update After Reports of Serious Bugs
Slashdot reader golden_donkey quotes Forbes:
Are you booting up your Windows 10 machine and discovering you can’t log in to your profile? It appears you’re not alone. Reports are increasing across Twitter and Microsoft forums that following the most recent Patch Tuesday update (KB4532693), users are complaining that their profiles and desktop files are missing, and that custom icons and wallpaper have…
Apple’s Mac Computers Now Outpace Windows In Malware
According to cybersecurity software company Malwarebytes’ latest State of Malware report, the amount of malware on Macs is outpacing PCs for the first time ever. Recode reports: Windows machines still dominate the market share and tend to have more security vulnerabilities, which has for years made them the bigger and easier target for hackers. But as Apple’s computers have grown in…
Nvidia’s GeForce Now Is Losing All Activision Blizzard Games
Nvidia’s GeForce Now is a cloud gaming service that lets you play games stored on dedicated GeForce graphics-enabled PCs across a wide array of devices. While it lets you play PC games you already own, the game publisher must allow it on the service. “Today, Nvidia is revealing that Activision Blizzard is no longer playing ball, pulling down its catalog of…
iPad Launch Blindsided Windows Team, Reveals Former Microsoft Executive
The launch of the iPad ten years ago was a big surprise to everyone in the industry — including to Microsoft executives. Steven Sinofsky, the former President of the Windows Division at Microsoft, shares Microsoft’s perspective as well as those of the other industry figures and press on the iPad: The announcement 10 years ago today of the “magical” iPad was…
Devon police once chased a UFO at 90mph
One of Britain’s strangest UFO cases began when two policemen spotted something very unusual in the sky. On the morning of October 24th, 1967, PCs Rog… Source: https://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/news/334059/devon-police-once-chased-a-ufo-at-90mph…
Toshiba Touts Algorithm That’s Faster Than a Supercomputer
It’s a tantalizing prospect for traders whose success often hinges on microseconds: a desktop PC algorithm that crunches market data faster than today’s most advanced supercomputers. Japan’s Toshiba says it has the technology to make such rapid-fire calculations a reality — not quite quantum computing, but perhaps the next best thing. From a report: The claim is being met with a…
The End of Windows 7 ‘Marks the End of the PC Era Too’
ZDNet’s UK editor-in-chief Steve Ranger argues the end of Windows 7 “marks the end of the PC era, too.” When Windows 7 launched, the iPhone and its app store were around but were still novelties, while the iPad hadn’t arrived yet. If you wanted to get work — or pretty much anything — done on a computer, you needed a PC….
Thunderbolt 4 Arrives In 2020, But USB Will Remain the King of PC Ports
Intel announced Thunderbolt 4 this week at CES, saying it will arrive in PCs later this year with Intel’s new Tiger Lake processor. But, as CNET reports, “the all-purpose port won’t be any faster at transferring data than the 4-year-old Thunderbolt 3.” From the report: The chipmaker promised it would be four times faster than today’s USB, then clarified it was…
Tony Brooker, Pioneer of Computer Programming, Dies At 94
Cade Metz from The New York Times pays tribute to Tony Brooker, the mathematician and computer scientist who designed the programming language for the world’s first commercial computer. Brooker died on Nov. 20 at the age of 94. From the report: Mr. Brooker had been immersed in early computer research at the University of Cambridge when one day, on his way…