Microsoft Surface Studio 2 review: A powerful digital drawing board
With its adjustable 28-inch touchscreen and stylus, the Surface Studio 2 offers designers a versatile platform that simply isn’t available from rival all-in-one desktop PCs. Read More
How Shake Shack is betting on technology on front-end and back-end to hit $700 million in revenue in 2020
The company has multiple digital transformation efforts underway including an ERP overhaul called Project Concrete and efforts to meet customers on whatever screen they use. Read More
Hackers can hijack bare-metal cloud servers by corrupting their BMC firmware
Cloud providers are failing to wipe bare-metal servers clean when re-assigning them to new clients. Read More
Researchers break digital signatures for most desktop PDF viewers
Researchers faked signatures on 21 of 22 desktop PDF viewer apps and 5 out of 7 online PDF digital signing services. Read More
HoloLens 2 puts the future of computing in Microsoft’s hands
The new capabilities of HoloLens 2 reinforce Microsoft’s leadership position in a pillar of computing’s future. The company’s steadfast focus on enterprise productivity, though, may leave it vulnerable as mixed reality becomes more mainstream. Read More
Apple COO: Oh, no, we’re not elitist
Speaking at a North Carolina university, Jeff Williams claims all this talk of elitism comes from those who just don’t understand. Read More
What Linus Torvalds really thinks about ARM processors
In a recent post, Torvalds shared some thoughts about ARM processors and servers, and people thought he was dismissing ARM’s future on servers and the cloud. Here’s what he really meant. Read More
The end of Blu-ray
Thanks to the rise of streaming, Samsung is discontinuing its Blu-ray and 4K Blu-ray player lines. That’s lousy news for people who love older TV shows and movies. Read More
Amazon Echo and Google Home should be able to snitch on owners, says professor
Marija Slavkovik at the University of Bergen, Norway wonders whether your digital assistant needs a moral, ethical dimension. But of course. Read More
Lenovo: New Chromebook, Yoga and ThinkPads with LTE-A, gigabit Wi-Fi and revamped security
New business-focused computers unveiled at MWC in Barcelona, with a mix of premium machines and low-cost offerings for frontline workers. Read More