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07.02.2019 1,627 2
What’s memcached and why do you need to use it
Having a properly working website or app can make a big difference in your overall online presence. People will rarely wait for your site or service to load and caching is a vital part of optimizing y ...
05.02.2019 3,411 4
So what is a Tensor processing unit (TPU) and why will it be the future of Machine Learning?
So, for sure you know that a CPU is. GPU is probably something that you know too. But have you ever heard of a TPU? TPU stands for a tensor processing unit. Google produces these processors. They are ...
29.01.2019 1,486 2
Top tech of 2018
2018 is gone! Yep, it is over, but was there anything that we should remember from it? On the surface, nothing new – Intel kept manufacturing 14nm processors; Apple kept producing more of the sa ...
22.01.2019 1,580 3
6 Reasons why Laravel is getting really popular
There are many PHP web frameworks out there. Symfony, CodeIgniter, Zend, Yii 2, Phalcon and more. In this sea of options, there is one that is clearly developers’ favorite – Laravel. Laravel is an ope ...
17.01.2019 1,745 12
The Biggest Tech Flops in 2018
Ah, 2018. The IT industry will certainly not remember that year fondly. It started off rather well, but ended in a bad way. Lots of privacy scandals, political pressure, slowdown in major markets such ...
15.01.2019 1,754 0
Project Stream and xCloud. Is this the future or is it a failure?
Millennials have changed plenty of industries. Thanks to them we are moving from owning to just using items. Console gaming is the next “victim.” We used to have a real console at home, connected to a ...
08.01.2019 2,083 7
Windows 10 on ARM, can it make it this time?
Do you remember Windows RT? No?! OK, to be fair, not many people do. It was introduced in 2012 alongside the original Surface tablet. It was a Windows port for ARM processors that looked like Windows ...
03.01.2019 1,867 2
Satellite trends in 2019
Over the past few years the satellite industry has grown quite a lot. But it’s nothing compared to the growth which many analysts expect over the next two decades. For example, Goldman Sachs predicts ...
18.12.2018 1,525 1
Are there alternatives to the lithium-ion batteries?
The lithium-ion batteries have been around for ages. The first commercial product came back in 1991 thanks to Sony and Asahi Kasei. At that time, they were competing with NiCd (Nickel-cadmium), NiMH ( ...