The nation’s energy policies appear to be ready to change drastically under President Donald Trump’s administration. The President’s “America First Energy Plan,” published yesterday, appeared to focus almost exclusively on increasing fossil fuel production and rejuvenating the coal industry. The plan called for accessing “the estimated $50 trillion in untapped shale, oil, and natural gas…
An AMD Athlon or Sempron chip may not drum as much excitement as Ryzen, but loyalty has helped those brands stick around for more than a decade. So what happens to those and other PC processors, like the A-series and FX, when AMD’s new Ryzen chips start flooding the market in March? AMD has said the…
AMD won’t be providing Windows 7 drivers for its upcoming Ryzen processors, the company said, contradicting recent reports that indicated AMD would support Microsoft’s older operating system. AMD confirmed that it has tested and validated Ryzen on Windows 7, but that it won’t officially support the OS. It puts to rest the suggestion of a recent translated…
Microsoft yesterday released a refreshed beta of Office 2016 for Mac that includes support for Apple’s latest hardware innovation, the Touch Bar that debuted in October on new MacBook Pro notebooks. On those laptops, Apple replaced the static row of function keys at the top of the keyboard with an OLED (organic light-emitting diode) display…
Some big players in security and the internet of things, including AT&T and Nokia, are joining forces to solve problems that they say make IoT vulnerable in many areas. The IoT Cybersecurity Alliance, formed Wednesday, also includes IBM, Symantec, Palo Alto Networks, and mobile security company Trustonic. The group said it won’t set standards but…
Intel CEO Brian Krzanich’s meeting with new U.S. president Donald Trump was followed by a big announcement: The company will invest US$7 billion over the next three to four years to complete a factory to make 7-nanometer chips. The completion of Fab 42 — where the chips will be made — will create about 3,000…
In case you haven’t heard, Android Wear 2.0 is here. Well, almost here. The first two watches to run it will be released on February 10, and within weeks, a whole assortment of new and old watches will be able to take advantage of the new features, which are nearly nine months in the making.…
Microsoft will stop all support for Windows Vista in two months, ending the problem-plagued operating system’s usefulness when it issues final patches on April 11. The OS won’t be missed: According to analytics vendor Net Applications, which estimated user share by counting unique visitors to tens of thousands of websites, Vista ran on less than…
Accenture wants to help businesses use blockchain technologies more securely by locking away the encryption keys they use to sign transactions. It’s built a system that blockchain developers can use to store credentials in specialized cryptoprocessors called hardware security modules (HSMs). HSMs are typically used by banks to store the PINs associated with payment cards…
Evernote decided last year that it wanted to move away from running its own data centers and start using the public cloud to operate its popular note-taking service. On Wednesday, it announced that the lion’s share of the work is done, save for some last user attachments. The company signed up to work with Google,…