Cards Against Humanity built an AI to replace their writers TechSpot

By the sixteenth hour locked in a small room, the humans had devolved into mumbling coffee pots while the AI trundled on, unrelenting. Both came up with some pretty good lines, some of the more appropriate (if that’s possible) including: “Losing a loved one to Fox News” and “Sitting on...





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All of these tech company founders/CEOs stepped away for a stint before later returning to the helm, except... TechSpot

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Intel says it sold its phone modem chip business to Apple at "a multi-billion dollar loss" TechSpot

Earlier this year, Apple poached Intel's lead 5G phone modem developer, which is widely believed to have prompted the latter's exit from that market. In July, news broke that Intel had signed an agreement with the Cupertino giant to hand over its 5G modem division for $1 billion.





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No Man's Sky: Synthesis update adds highly requested starship customization feature TechSpot

Launching the newest version of No Man's Sky on Thanksgiving Day was apropos since, as a thank you to players who have stuck with them, Hello Games gave fans a feature they have been clamoring for almost since release — customizable/upgradable starships.





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Survey: AMD CPUs preferred by 60% of Europeans TechSpot

When asked about the next desktop processor they intended to buy, the 10,000 respondents who take part in the survey expressed a preference for AMD, with 60 percent choosing the company over Intel.





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Master the essentials of CentOS and Red Hat Linux and get certified TechSpot

Linux powers most of the web and every full stack developer should be familiar with the operating system and its various tools. Even if you have zero Linux experience, you can count on this course to get you started with the basics, and move gradually into advanced material.





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Huawei will reportedly sue the FCC over new restrictions TechSpot

Last week saw the FCC approve a measure that would deny subsidies to carriers who use equipment from Huawei, ZTE, or any other “bad actors.” The FCC’s Universal Service Fund has $8.5 billion ready to subsidize carriers in making improvements to the communications infrastructure in the US, but none of...





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Scientists discover tectonic fault zone through undersea fiber-optic cables TechSpot

The idea of using underwater fiber-optic cables to observe earthquakes has been explored in the past by researchers from the UK, Italy, and Malta.





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Amazon's second-gen ARM-based chips are coming to its cloud business TechSpot

Amazon’s cloud computing unit designed the ARM-based processor, which, as noted by Reuters, will be 20 percent faster than Graviton, the company’s first-gen ARM chip that was created as a low-cost option.





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Codemasters acquires Project CARS developer Slightly Mad Studios for $30m TechSpot

Before getting into the official announcements from Codemasters and Slightly Mad Studios, let's take a brief drive through the latter's history.





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The Full Guide to Black Friday Tech Deals: Over 200 deals and counting TechSpot

Black Friday kickstarts the opening of the holiday shopping season and there are tons of deals to be had on tech. We've cut out the fat and the fluff, and created an all-encompassing list with all the relevant tech deals we could find this Thanksgiving weekend. We recommend to shop...





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Jony Ive officially leaves Apple TechSpot

Sir Jonathan Ive, better known as Jony Ive, announced back in June that he would be leaving the company to start LoveFrom, a design firm he started in collaboration with fellow Apple Watch designer Marc Newson. The Englishman joined Apple in 1992 and led its design team since 1996.





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Samsung is reportedly making 14nm CPUs for Intel as supply issues persist TechSpot

Intel may have taken its title back from Samsung as the world's largest chip maker this year, but that doesn't make things any easier for the company, especially now that AMD is on steroids and has managed to deliver 7nm desktop and workstation processors and even GPUs for the mainstream.





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Aiming for Atoms: The Art of Making Chips Smaller TechSpot

In the world of computer chips, bigger numbers are often better. More cores, higher GHz, greater FLOPs, all desired by engineers and users alike. But there is one measure that's hot news right now and the smaller it is, the better. Let's take a journey into the world of process...





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Google Photos is rolling out manual face tagging feature, but there's a catch TechSpot

You can think of the over 1 billion users as living proof of how good Google Photos is (it's also "free" for unlimited photo and video storage).





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What Ever Happened to ICQ? TechSpot

#ThrowBackThursday ICQ, short for the phrase "I Seek You," laid the groundwork for standalone instant messaging clients when it arrived in November 1996. Think about how long ago that was... Windows 95 was barely a year old, Nintendo had just introduced the N64, and those with a reason to have...





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Huawei CFO: don't televise extradition proceedings as it could lead to Trump's intervention TechSpot

It’s been almost one year since Wanzhou, daughter of Huawei founder Ren Zhengfei, was arrested in Canada at the request of the United States. She’s alleged to have tricked banks into carrying out transactions that violated US sanctions against Iran.





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