Month: February 2020
Trump’s budget continues to boost nuclear energy
Donald Trump’s budget proposal for 2021 earmarks $1.2 billion for nuclear energy research and development and related programs. That’s significantly more than the $824 million Trump proposed in his budget the previous year. Even with the sizable increase in requested funds, the amount is less than the $1.5 billion that…
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Amazon is still crushing Google and Apple in the smart speaker market
Apple and Google are still struggling to come close to Amazon’s enormous share of the home smart speaker market, and that trend will continue through 2021, a new eMarketer report predicts. Some 70 percent of US smart speaker users will use an Amazon Echo in 2020, close to last year’s…
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Intel could be coming for Nvidia with a monster 500W graphics card
We already have a good idea of what Intel Xe will look like with the DG1 graphics card. We even played Destiny 2 on the Intel Xe DG1 back at CES 2020. But we might have just seen what a more powerful Intel flagship graphics card will look like. The…
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SaaS kicks off 2020 with an extra billion in VC funding as round count halves
More capital and fewer deals means larger venture-backed investments Alex Wilhelm 8 hours The venture capital world is investing more capital into software-as-a-service companies (SaaS), despite cutting the number of deals it executes within the startup category, according to Crunchbase data. The results echo other venture data we’ve explored recently,…
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A US House candidate says she was hacked — now she’s warning others
“I cannot think of a reason not to share this with the public,” Brianna Wu tweeted. “Two of my non-campaign Google accounts were compromised by someone in Russia,” she said. Wu isn’t just any other target. As a Democratic candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives in Massachusetts’ 8th District,…
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Samsung Galaxy S history: from iPhone copycat to dazzling design
When the Galaxy S8 arrived, we said “wow”. 2018’s Galaxy S9 family caused a more measured response. The Galaxy S9 and Galaxy S9 Plus are good, great even, but also familiar. They look a lot like their predecessors, and improvements are subtle tweaks rather than revolutions. The rear camera can…
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