Console gamers will spend the bulk of E3 drooling over new console updates. The PS4K and Xbox One Scorpio, as they’re currently known, are supposedly intended as mid-generation updates with 4K video playback, and improved performance. PC gamers have no such new hardware, or blockbuster announcements to froth over. The new video cards and processors were announced in the months leading up to E3.

Pioneering virtual playspaces encouraged openness and creativity, which would later become foundational values of the web.

The future of computing may be in its past. The silicon transistor, the tiny switch that is the building block of modern microelectronics, replaced the vacuum tube in many consumer products in the 1970s. Now as shrinking transistors to even more Lilliputian dimensions is becoming vastly more challenging, the vacuum tube may be on the verge of a comeback.

Mounting a large heat sink on a Raspberry Pi 3 using a copper plate spacer, thermal compound, and a custom mount. Then running some CPU temperature tests using a bash script.

Some of today's top techies and scientists are very publicly expressing their concerns over apocalyptic scenarios that are likely to arise as a result of machines with motives. Among the fearful are intellectual heavyweights like Stephen Hawking, Elon Musk, and Bill Gates, who all believe that advances in the field of machine learning will soon yield self-aware A.I.s that seek to destroy us—or perhaps just apathetically dispose of us, much like scum getting obliterated by a windshield wiper. In fact, Dr. Hawking told the BBC...

By far the best moment of Recode's annual Code Conference was when Elon Musk took the stage and explained that though we think we're flesh-and-blood participants in a physical world, we are almost certainly computer-generated entities living inside a more advanced civilization's video game. Don't believe me? Here's Musk's argument in full...

A computer cracks the Boolean Pythagorean triples problem — but is it really maths? By Michael Greshko. (May 26, ’16)

HP is getting back into the gaming world with a new line of products called Omen. The Omen series will feature laptops, desktops, and accessories targeted across different price ranges, from cheaper notebooks up to higher-end towers for serious gamers with a lot of disposable income. The line is kicking off today with the announcement of four products: two laptops, a tower, and a display. For the most part, these first products are starting toward the higher end of the market.

Alphabet’s Google said it will increase the size of ads that run atop search results and expand ads on Google Maps in an effort to avert slowing revenue growth.

Linux has come out of oblivion, forcing itself onto the realms of digital climate. This article brings us closer to Linux in five ways.

It’s a mind-bending concept with the potential to change the world, and Canadian tech company D-Wave claims to have cracked the code.

Chromebooks are already outselling Macs. So Linus Torvalds is wondering if this really might be the year of the Linux desktop. With the addition of Android apps to the Chromebook, maybe it really will be.

New from Sysdig, Falco alerts you to unwanted behaviors, not just in Docker apps, but throughout the system

Forget the CPU, GPU, and FPGA, Google says its Tensor Processing Unit, or TPU, advances machine learning capability by a factor of three generations. “TPUs deliver an order of magnitude higher performance per watt than all commercially available GPUs and FPGA,” said Google CEO Sundar Pichai during the company’s I/O developer conference on Wednesday.

Your brain does not process information, retrieve knowledge or store memories. In short: your brain is not a computer.

Welcome to the new world of artificial intelligence. Soon, we won't program computers. We'll train them. Like dolphins. Or dogs. Or humans. Before the invention of the computer, most experimental psychologists thought the brain was an unknowable black box. You could analyze a subject’s behavior—ring bell, dog salivates—but thoughts, memories, emotions? That stuff was obscure and inscrutable, beyond the reach of science. So these behaviorists, as they called themselves...

Greg Kroah-Hartman discusses the inner workings of the massive development project that is Linux.

Using a simple quantum circuit, constructed on a 2-qubit photonics quantum processor, the researchers were able to outperform classical computers in certain highly specialised problems.

“We become what we behold. We shape our tools and then our tools shape us.” - John Culkin (based on Marshall McLuhan’s ideas) Something big is happening in design and engineering...

As Microsoft continues its trend of converting Windows into an operating system of spyware, more and more computer users are discovering the security, privacy, and liberty of Linux. by C. Mitchell Shaw