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Memory bandwidth is one of the greatest constraints in the advancement of the computing power. With CPUs becoming more powerful, they add more caches and support for faster RAM. Yet, historically Android SoC makers (Qualcomm, Mediatek, Samsung) have been stingy in including big caches in their...

I'm a college student, and I create lots of documents with the Microsoft Office suite, especially Word. Unfortunately, the Office suite will only autosave documents if they're saved to OneDrive. In my relatively extensive experience, OneDrive is significantly inferior to Google Drive; it just...

The AT in the latest version of Google Assistant in Beta is now smart enough to have phone conversations with restaurants and hair salons in order to make reservations. A demo is here...

This one's got me pretty stumped. Years ago I set my dad up with a mini ITX computer that ran Windows 7 64-bit and he never really had any issues with it, ever. More recently, though, he ran into a problem where any web browser would simply crash and I chalked it up to malware. For whatever...

Google's Walmart store is currently selling the Google Home Mini for $29 with a $25 Walmart gift code: https://express.google.com/u/0/product/5069371770764088722_7008326304182003253_8175035 That brings the price down to about $4 plus tax. There is also a $10 coupon out there if you look for it...

Google is offering this "free" one year trial of Google Cloud hosting with a $300 service credit. It reminds me a lot of AWS, but the interface is slightly less complex. I spawned a few CentOS test servers with it, and found it be pretty impressive. Is anyone else using this for anything?

https://cloud.google.com/blog/big-data/2017/05/an-in-depth-look-at-googles-first-tensor-processing-unit-tpu Pretty in depth article, but with all the buzz around GV100 figured you might want to see what's already out there for those specific tasks.

My android phone was on the desk next to me while I was listening to a calculus lecture on my desktop pc.. Suddenly, the phone screen lit up and displayed google chrome providing a search on "chain rule". I don't feel at all comfortable with my phone now. What is happening?

Well, there's already a thread about the Pixel phones, but I was wondering if people here are interested in the other things that will be released next week. http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016/09/google-confirms-october-4th-event-prepare-for-pixel-phones/ Google home will try to take on...

Apparently Jim Cramer is all for Salesforce acquiring Twitter, which probably means it would be the apocalypse. https://techcrunch.com/2016/09/23/salesforce-google-twitter/ http://www.cnbc.com/2016/09/23/cramer-on-why-twitter-would-be-a-good-fit-for-salesforcecom.html