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I've just finished a series of CES previews by the PC vendors, and I can easily say that of the products I looked at, Lenovo will likely win at CES this year. I can't tell you why or what they are announcing, but this got me thinking about why CES could be far more important than I thought it was if used like Lenovo is using it I've not been a fan ...
'Tis the giving season when it's also fun to imagine things that, at least from a distance, look like they'd be cool to have for yourself For instance, imagine showing up for your high school reunion and stealing the show because of the car you arrive in, getting into your personal submarine at a business beach event, or having a home that both ref...
It's the season for gift-giving. I usually choose the easy path by giving gift cards, but I've discovered there can be problems along the easy path. Two Amazon gift cards I purchased didn't reach their intended recipients. Amazon replaced one rapidly, but the other had been stolen and used. I'm still waiting for a resolution on that one This year w...
Thanks largely to Nvidia, GPUs have nearly eclipsed CPUs as the technology driving advancement. When it comes to AI, particularly on the training side, GPUs reign supreme. Generally, GPUs make our games and most advanced photo and video editing tools work better as well -- and with social media, many folks are becoming creation experts But while AM...
Qualcomm last week announced its Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 processor. The significant improvement is enhanced AI that will operate behind the scenes to improve the user experience significantly on phones due to launch in a few weeks This AI implementation should significantly improve most functions, from how well the modem works to optimize both voice and...
For those of you who haven't traveled lately, things have changed over the last couple of years. For example, most airlines don't take cash anymore, and an increasing number don't accept credit cards Airlines are almost all short-staffed, and at this time of year, there are a lot of mechanical delays and weather events. Depending on the airport, th...
We are approaching a major technological pivot where much of the processing we do personally happens not on our local PC but in the connected cloud At the forefront of this charge is Qualcomm, which uses Arm technology to complete its PC solution. Microsoft has followed Apple toward Arm, but unlike Apple, it partnered with Qualcomm to get there. To...
Last week, I was in New York for two events: one for Lenovo's Advisory Council, which I cannot talk about, and another for BlackBerry's Security Conference, which I can and will discuss At the BlackBerry event, instead of doing his customary entertaining keynote, Blackberry CEO John Chen interviewed Victor Zhora, who shares responsibility for Ukrai...
Like many of you, I was enthralled with the holodeck concept when "Star Trek: The Next Generation" (TNG) came out. For many of us, that became the bar for the coming metaverse or 3D web implementation The holodeck was a photorealistic virtual environment built on the concept of hard light, which could render solid objects out of light (it is a thin...
Elon Musk has gone on record saying that environmental, social, and governance (ESG) efforts are "a scam" that has "been weaponized by phony social justice warriors." Were we back in the early 2000s, he'd have been right. Back then, Dell's ESG plan of record was to plant a tree for every complying sale. The entities doing ecology-based social justi...
Will this be the deal that breaks Elon Musk? He's a risk-taker which has proven to be a good thing in many ways. Businesses like Tesla, SpaceX, and Starlink would have either failed or failed to launch successfully without him However, most of his businesses are also at risk, often because of Musk's moves. For instance, Tesla sales appeared to drop...
There is a lot of work going into creating the next generation of the web. Most of it is focused on the concept that rather than traditional web pages, we'll have a very different experience that is far more immersive. Let's call it "Web 3D." I had a chance to talk with Nvidia's CEO Jensen Huang who shared his view of Web 3D. While it blends elemen...
A TED Talk by Graham Conway, principal engineer at Southwest Research Institute, asserts that electric vehicles are less green than ICE cars, and it is well-argued. While I don't agree with all of Conway's metrics, the point he makes is valid, which is that the things we need to do to make an electric vehicle green truly have not been done yet We a...
I was in Israel last week to tour Intel's impressive facilities there. While most of the trip was focused on Intel's Israel Development Center (IDC), there was also a presentation on Intel's Mobileye facility in Israel. This division, which will eventually spin into an IPO (a move that will have to wait until the market recovers), is the group that drove Intel's autonomous car efforts...
Last week Apple launched new iPhones with several interesting new features. One feature reports if you have been in an accident (assuming your phone can connect), and another connects the phone to a satellite in a very limited way for those times when a cellular tower is out of range Starlink and T-Mobile are publicizing a yet non-existent service ...
Intel needed AMD in the early days of the personal computer because IBM, and others, wouldn't buy a technology that was single sourced From Intel's perspective, Intel should always be the predominant seller of the technology given it was the source. Apparently, no one told AMD because AMD wasn't satisfied. I doubt Intel would have been satisfied ei...
I was an early adopter of the current generation of solar technology when I put panels on our San Jose house in the early 2000s, only to watch the yield from those panels drop sharply over the following 20 years On our latest home, we use current-generation LG panels, which promise to hold over 90% of their generating capacity for that same time. H...
The video game market is divided into five segments: legacy PC and console, evolving mobile devices -- mostly phones but some tablets, and the emerging cloud. That's four, I'll get to the fifth segment in a minute Observing these segments, Qualcomm is present mostly in evolving mobile devices. At the same time, that has an interesting connection to...
While Netscape didn't invent the internet or HTML, it was the company that made the internet real. Netscape advanced with Tim Berners-Lee's creation of HTML and was instrumental in turning it into something that changed the world Last week at Siggraph, Nvidia's opening keynote identified Universal Scene Description (USD), developed by Pixar, which ...
This week is Siggraph 2022, where Nvidia will be doing one of the keynotes While the metaverse on the consumer side is industrial use, outside of gaming which has effectively consisted of metaverse instances for years, Nvidia at Siggraph will be talking about its leadership in integrating AI into the technology, the creation and application of digi...
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