Apple’s 1m USB-C to Lightning Cable, which allows faster charging for compatible iPhones and iPads, has been reduced in price. When the cable debuted, the original price was $25 for the 1m version, and $35 for the 2m version. It appears that last month, Apple quietly dropped the price of the 1m USB-C to Lighting Cable by $6, going from $25 to $19. This change comes amid rumors that new iPhones will drop the USB-A-equipped Lightning to USB Cables in favor of USB-C cables that are able to facilitate faster charging.

Welcome to the future transparency of today as quantum computers reveal all currently encrypted secrets -- a viable scenario within just a few years.

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A technique to manipulate electrons with light could bring quantum computing up to room temperature. A team of researchers in Germany and at the University of Michigan have demonstrated how infrared laser pulses can shift electrons between two different states, the classic 1 and 0, in a thin sheet of semiconductor.

Shortwave Trading, Part I. By Alexandre Laumonier.

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS is now available to download. Read our comprehensive rundown of everything new in Ubuntu 18.04 LTS to see why we think this is the BEST release yet!

Microsoft kicked off its annual developer conference, Build 2018, on May 7 with the announcement of a new program designed to invest in accessibility technologies built using artificial intelligence and machine learning -- with a $25 million endowment and a five-year mission.

China is reportedly set to announce a new 300 billion yuan ($47.4 billion) investment fund for its semiconductor industry. The fund will be used to develop the sector as Beijing tries to narrow the gap between U.S. chipset manufacturers and its own players, the Wall Street Journal (paywall) reported, citing sources familiar with the plans.

Researchers have found eight new flaws in computer central processing units that resemble the Meltdown and Spectre bugs revealed in January, a German computing magazine reported on Thursday.

Researchers have built a proof-of-concept processor that uses secretly stored electrical charge to trigger an ultra-stealthy backdoor. By Andy Greenberg.

So much of what an IT department does is invisible, especially when everything is working as it should. But CIOs and other IT leaders need to make sure that the C-suite values and rewards IT, whether the tech accomplishments are behind the scenes or in the cloud.

I spent two years trying to get someone to tamper with my laptop, so I could then detect it. Somewhere along the way, I realized this might never happen.

According to law firm Hagens Berman, competition between between Samsung, Micron and Hynix were forcing prices to drop on RAM, despite record demand for the memory. Starting the first calendar quarter of 2016 and through the third quarter of 2017, Hagens Berman alleges that the trio's revenues from global DRAM sales more than doubled as a result of the production decrease and price-fixing scheme.

Chip giant Intel (NASDAQ:INTC) currently dominates the market for processors that go into notebook and desktop computers, but its last attempt to become a key vendor of applications processors for smartphones and tablets failed miserably. Intel also tried to enter the wearable computing market by buying smartwatch maker Basis, but that didn't seem to end well, either, as the company laid off most of the members of its wearable computing group.

Which brand of laptop is best? Laptop Mag ranks the biggest laptop brands on performance, design, support and value. See the scorecard.

A laptop is more than just a video playback machine. I’ve been thinking about aspect ratios. After years of phones, laptops, tablets, and TV screens converging on 16:9 as the “right” display shape — allowing video playback without distracting black bars — smartphones have disturbed the universality recently by moving to even more elongated formats like 18:9, 19:9, or even 19.5:9 in the iPhone X’s case. That’s prompted me to consider where else the default widescreen proportions might be a poor fit, and I’ve realized that laptops are the worst offenders.

In 1965 Gordon Moore, co-founder of Intel, predicted that the number of transistors in a circuit would double every two years. This is the premise of Moore's law, and it's why we carry around pocket-sized smartphones that are more powerful than 1980s supercomputers. But with technology moving so quickly, it can be easy to lose sight of just how far computers have come in a few decades.

Graphics processors are on a supercharged development path that eclipses Moore’s Law, says Nvidia’s Jensen Huang

Apple Inc. is planning to use its own chips in Mac computers beginning as early as 2020, replacing processors from Intel Corp., according to people familiar with the plans.

Quantum computing going mainstream. It may sound impossible, but IBM thinks it might be the future in the next five years. That is one of the five technological innovations that IBM predicts will change lives everywhere. The computers sold today, also known as classical computers, are limited in their capabilities to solve certain issues, generally when it comes to large-scale computations.