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Rovi, the company that's buying TiVo, isn't very interested in staying in the hardware business.
The combined company will be looking to partner with set-top box makers instead of continuing to sell set-top boxes directly to consumers, Rovi Chief Financial Officer Peter Halt said at an investors conference last week. (See transcript and this Light Reading article.)
Halt noted...
You'll need a little bit more of this. (credit: Pete)
Windows Vista was a shock to many Windows users, as its hardware requirements represented a steep upgrade over those required to run Windows XP: most 32-bit versions required a 1GHz processor, 1GB RAM, DirectX 9 graphics, and 40 GB of mass storage with 15GB free. But...
Amazon’s Echo, the AI-enabled Bluetooth speaker that has been a surprising hardware success, is getting two new siblings, the company announced today.The devices extend the reach of Alexa, the company’s virtual,...
One of the problems with much of science is that it is often a quasi-sedentary profession. Apart from those lucky few who have to trek through muddy fields in Vietnam or scale icy cliffs in Antarctica, the rest of us mostly took the job because it was indoors and required no heavy lifting.
That said, scientists get a lot of exercise. Usually, this involves energetically jumping...
We're still waiting for Microsoft to deliver all its "bridges". Especially the Android one! (credit: Microsoft)
Microsoft's Build developer conference will be in San Francisco once again, on March 30 to April 1. In spite of costing a little more this year, $ 2,195 (~£1,550) to last year's $ 2,095 (~£1,480), the conference sold...
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A few days ago, Facebook open-sourced its artificial intelligence (AI) hardware computing design. Most people don’t know that large companies such as Facebook, Google, and Amazon don’t buy hardware from the usual large computer suppliers like Dell, HP, and IBM but instead design their own hardware based on commodity components. The Facebook website...
