The Chromium team, which is behind the development of Google Chrome, and other popular browsers, claims to have saved users 10,000 years thanks to all the performance improvements it has made.
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Legendary game developer John Carmack (Doom, Wolfenstein 3D, Quake) has resigned from his role of "Consulting CTO" at Meta. The former executive was leading the Oculus VR team at the company.
Google has launched a Simplicity Sprint where it will attempt to boost productivity. The bad economy means that sales have dampened, and now it needs to be more productive with its resources.
Nokia has announced that it will halve the power usage of its base stations by 2023. It will do this by refining the software to be more efficient and by adopting the latest power-efficient SoCs.
Microsoft has quietly run battery tests with its Edge browser in Windows 10 October 2018 Update, once again finding it to be more power efficient than Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox.
Samsung has announced the mass production of its second generation DDR4 DRAM. The new chip has been manufactured to provide performance and energy efficiency increases over the first gen chip.
In the context of projections that nearly 70% of the population will live in cities by 2050, Microsoft has presented some of the steps it is taking to help increase the efficiency of urban centers.
Google has kicked off its celebration of Earth Day 2017 by announcing a few small tweaks to the search experience. The firm also points out it's on track to be 100% powered by renewable energy.
Microsoft has introduced EdgeHTML 14, its most significant update to its Edge browser with the launch of Windows 10 Anniversary Update, which brings improved performance, efficiency, and security.
Microsoft says that lab testing and real-world telemetry from millions of PCs prove that "you can simply browse longer with Edge than with Chrome, Firefox or Opera on Windows 10 devices".
Samsung has announced the start of mass production of what it calls the "industry's first" 10 nanometre-class DRAM. Samsung will likely use the technology in its flagship device next year.
Microsoft's senior researcher for mobility and networking says that the company is working on extending smartphone battery life to a full week, in research that will also be used for wearable devices.
Samsung has now finally grasped the manufacturing process, and stated that in partnership with Sungkyunkwan University, SAID has become the first to harness the benefits of graphene in manufacturing.
A leaked image seems to suggest that Intel's latest Silvermont Atom processor can easily outperform Qualcomm's quad-core 800 CPU, all while keeping power usage to a minimum.
Google is relatively quiet when it comes to the way it operates, but a recent conference on Wednesday has had the company reveal the data servers they use, and how they are put together. This...
The University of Delaware has inched up the record for solar cell efficiency with a new device that can convert 42.8 percent of the light that strikes it into electricity. That beats the old record...
At the CTIA, the Bluetooth Special Interest Group announced a new version of its wireless specification, Version 2.1 + Enhanced Data Rate. The new Bluetooth Core specification will make the initial connection of Bluetooth devices...
