Computing
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PNG Co-Creator Glenn Randers-Pehrson Passes Away After ‘Long And Painful Illness’
Still images on the internet come primarily in three formats: JPEG, GIF or PNG. If you want transparency, then PNG is king (having long dethroned the ancient GIF). In sad news, one of the co-creators and maintainer of the format, Glenn Randers-Pehrson, passed away last week from “a long and painful illness”.
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Samsung Is Planning Foldable Laptop Displays Now Too
Samsung really has a thing for foldable hardware. First, we heard word of a foldable phone. Then, a foldable tablet (that’s also a phone). And now, Samsung wants origami screens in its laptops too, according to the company’s VP of PC marketing, Lee Min-cheol.
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Upcoming Windows 10 Update Will Boost Performance Of Spectre V2 Fix
OK, so Spectre — and its associated vulnerability Meltdown — were identified and some aspects of dealt with by CPU microcode and OS patches. Unfortunately, in the case of Spectre, these fixes resulted in a loss of system performance. The good news is for Windows 10 users, an upcoming update will reduce the impact to…
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How Quantum Memory Could Change Computing
In a hot tub in 2012, physicist Seth Lloyd pitched a quantum internet application to Google’s Sergey Brin and Larry Page. He called it Quoogle: a search engine that, using mathematics based on the physics of subatomic particles, returns results without ever actually knowing the query. Such an advance would require an entirely new kind…