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The Web Security

Amazon was just granted a patent for tracking Bitcoin transactions and selling the data to the government

Patent is for a Streaming Data Marketplace

By William Gayde, April 20, 2018, 7:05 AM 5 comments

Mobile Google

Google wants to replace SMS with Chat, an RCS-based messaging service

Development of Allo is being put on pause

By Rob Thubron, April 20, 2018, 5:57 AM 5 comments

Google Mobile

'Grasshopper' is an app that uses puzzles and quizzes to teach you Javascript

The app was launched through Google's Area 120 idea incubator

By Cohen Coberly, April 19, 2018, 6:36 PM 6 comments

Security

Cambridge Analytica planned to offer its own cryptocurrency and offer it in an ICO

The coin would allow people to store their personal data online and then willingly sell it to advertisers

By William Gayde, April 19, 2018, 5:51 PM

Tech Deals Tech Culture

Smarter shopping: What does refurbished mean?

Apple, Samsung, Dell, and Lenovo all offer generous 1-year warranties on refurbished electronics

By Elizabeth Harper, April 19, 2018, 5:08 PM 17 comments

Security

AdGuard reports that 20 million Chrome users have malware infected ad blockers

The extensions are clones of legitimate blockers with malicious code embedded

By Cal Jeffrey, April 19, 2018, 4:24 PM 24 comments

Electronics Apple

Apple unveils 'Daisy' the recycling robot and the 'Apple GiveBack' recycling program

Daisy can dissassemble up to 200 iPhones per hour

By Cohen Coberly, April 19, 2018, 3:34 PM 8 comments

Mobile

Meet the new Moto G6 and Moto E5: Motorola's latest affordable smartphones

Each model has three flavors --- Standard, Plus, and Play

By Cal Jeffrey, April 19, 2018, 2:32 PM 5 comments

Industry

MoviePass parent company Helios & Matheson reports $150.8 million in losses during 2017

The losses are 'primarily due to the acquisition of MoviePass'

By Cohen Coberly, April 19, 2018, 1:34 PM 3 comments

Industry

All Lyft rides from now on will be carbon neutral

Lyft is joining the fight against climate change

By Cohen Coberly, April 19, 2018, 12:52 PM 7 comments

Electronics

Amazon rolls out Alexa Skill Blueprints in the US

Creating a skill is as easy as filling out a form

By Cal Jeffrey, April 19, 2018, 12:21 PM

Car Tech Industry

California regulator launches investigation into Tesla over injury reports

This isn't Tesla's month

By Rob Thubron, April 19, 2018, 11:29 AM 5 comments

Industry Hardware

Facebook is hiring a team to design its own custom microchips

Mentions of AI, compression, and video encoding applications

By Greg Synek, April 19, 2018, 10:46 AM 3 comments

Industry

Qualcomm is cutting 1,500 jobs, most of them in California, as it looks to reduce costs

The company has promised to save $1 billion

By Rob Thubron, April 19, 2018, 10:05 AM 4 comments

Hardware

Intel Stratix chip performs over 10 trillion calculations per second

Over 30 billion transistors required

By Greg Synek, April 19, 2018, 9:18 AM 10 comments

Electronics Tech Culture

Robot assembles Ikea furniture without losing its temper or any pieces

It took just 20 minutes to put together the chair

By Rob Thubron, April 19, 2018, 8:41 AM

AMD Ryzen 7 2700X & Ryzen 5 2600X Review: Zen+ Is Here

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FEATURE By Steven Walton, April 19, 2018, 8:00 AM TechSpot Hardware

It's been great to have more competition in the CPU sector since Ryzen arrived. Based on the refreshed Zen+ architecture, today we're testing AMD's new X processors: the 2700X is an 8-core/16-thread CPU with a 3.7 GHz base and a 4.3 GHz max boost and the 2600X is a 6-core/12-thread CPU operating at 100 MHz lower clocks.