Category: System Software

September 14, 2020

Jensen Huang, the chief executive officer of chipmaker Nvidia, has presented his decision to purchase semiconductor design firm Arm from Japan’s SoftBank as all about artificial intelligence. “A.I. is the most powerful technology force of our time,” Huang said in […]

September 14, 2020

In a recent blog post, Microsoft announced two new technologies to combat disinformation: a Video Authenticator tool, and technology to either detect manipulated content or assure people that the media they’re viewing is authentic. In today’s world, disinformation is trending […]

September 9, 2020

Recently Microsoft and VMWare both announced the general availability of Azure Spring Cloud, a fully-managed service for Spring Boot apps. The service allows enterprises to deploy JARs or code to it, and the service automates the process of wiring the […]

September 3, 2020

Can Big Brother identify your face from street-level CCTV surveillance and tell whether you’re happy, sad, or angry? Can that identification lead to your arrest on an outstanding warrant? What are the odds that the identification is incorrect, and really […]

September 1, 2020

Salesforce has been adding artificial intelligence to all parts of its platform for several years now. It calls the underlying artificial intelligence layer on the Salesforce platform Einstein. Today the company announced some enhancements to its field service offering that […]

August 26, 2020

Nvidia on Wednesday published a video in which it explained some of the design philosophies that went into creating the thermal solution for its upcoming Ampere family of GPUs. As Nvidia thermal architect David Haley recounts, the first law of […]

August 21, 2020

Today we’re benchmarking a cargo plane load of graphics cards in the new Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020. The game was released this week, so we pre-ordered it for testing and the second it was available we got to it… only […]

August 18, 2020

The latest release in the popular Microsoft Flight Simulator series is finally available but Steam gamers are already experiencing some turbulence. Several early reviewers are blasting Microsoft and Valve for an issue related to Steam’s refund policy. Per the policy, […]

August 3, 2020

Microsoft recently reminded customers that starting Oct. 13 the company will not support older versions of Office applications connecting to Office 365 and Microsoft 365 services. In a support document dated July 20, Microsoft listed the applications that will be […]

July 31, 2020

Microsoft is continuing its march toward refocusing its Cortana digital assistant on productivity scenarios. Today, July 31, Microsoft is going public with dates for phasing out more consumer-focused entertainment and smart-home features via a new Support Article on upcoming changes […]