• COMPUTERS
    AMD CEO Says Expects to Return to Operating Profit in H2 2016

    US semiconductor maker Advanced Micro Device Inc expects to return to operating profitability in the second half of this year, Chief Executive Lisa Su said Wednesday. “I expect our revenue to grow for the full year,” said Su, speaking on the sidelines of the Computex technology trade show in Taipei. In mid-April, AMD reported first-quarter […]

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    Microsoft CEO Visiting China as Anti-Trust Probe Nears Third Year

    HIGHLIGHTS Nadella is expected to meet government officials to discuss the probe. Investigation relates to compatibility issues with Windows. Microsoft is one of several firms to have come under scrutiny in China. Microsoft Corp chief executive Satya Nadella is in Beijing this week, a company spokesman said on Tuesday, as China’s anti-trust investigation of the […]

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    Intel Launches Its First 10-Core Desktop CPU With Broadwell-E

    HIGHLIGHTS The Core i7-6950X Extreme Edition is Intel’s newest flagship. Broadwell-E lineup of processors is based on the 14nm process. The 7th generation ‘Kaby Lake’ Core processors are in production. Intel at Computex 2016 has introduced its latest lineup of enthusiast processors, the Broadwell-E series of Core i7 offerings. The entire series is unlocked for […]

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    Researchers Probe How Humans Recognise Images Better Than Computers

    What makes computers and a human brain different when it comes to recognising images? The presence of an “atomic” unit of recognition – a minimum amount of information an image must contain for the recognition to occur – in human brain, researchers report. Scientists from the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel and the Massachusetts […]

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    Cybercriminals Snap Up Expired Domains to Serve Malicious Ads: Report

    Expired domain names are becoming the latest route for cybercriminals to find their way into the computers of unsuspecting users. Cybercriminals launched a malicious advertising campaign this week targeting visitors of popular news and entertainment websites after gaining ownership of an expired web domain of an advertising company. Users visiting the websites of the New […]

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    India Fourth-Most Affected Country by Downadup Malware: F-Secure

    India is the fourth country that has most number of attacks by the Downadup malware family, a report by Finland-based online security and privacy company F-Secure, said. It added that besides India, this threat was most frequently detected in Finland, France, Germany, Italy and Norway. F-Secure Threat Round up Report 2015 details the trends and […]

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    Adobe Issues Emergency Update to Flash After Ransomware Attacks

    Adobe Systems Inc issued an emergency update on Thursday to its widely used Flash software for Internet browsers after researchers discovered a security flaw that was being exploited to deliver ransomware to Windows PCs. The software maker urged the more than 1 billion users of Flash on Windows, Mac, Chrome and Linux computers to update […]