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Gigabyte Now Baking 32GB of Optane Directly Into Z370 Motherboards
Gigabyte is now bundling Optane drives directly with Z370 motherboards.

Apple to Block Police iPhone Hacking Tools in Future Update
Apple reportedly started looking into the GrayKey exploit after news of the device surfaced last year. Rather than play a cat and mouse game with the company to patch exploits, Apple just opted to restrict data on the USB port.

Does AMD’s Graphics Division Have an Identity Problem?
Has AMD's PC graphics business suffered as the company has turned its attention elsewhere?

Researchers Create Robot That Can Draw and Test Your Blood
Many of us have had chance encounters with medical professionals who aren't yet adept at drawing blood. After just one of these unpleasant experiences, you'll understand the appeal of the new venipuncture robot from Rutgers University.

EA on the Battlefield V Backlash: ‘Accept It or Don’t Buy the Game’
Angry about Battlefield 5? EA suggests voting with your wallet.

Byton Reveals Sleek New Self-Driving Electric Car Concept
The so-called K-Byte features a large lithium-ion battery like the Teslas, but it has more advanced self-driving hardware that could potentially surpass everything else on the road.

Stanford Researchers Plan to Replace Progressive Lenses With ‘Autofocals’
Death, taxes, and vision problems are all unavoidable, eventually. A team at Stanford is paving the way for a much better solution to the universal problem of a decrease in our eyes' ability to refocus as we age.

Fortnite on the Switch Lacks PS4 Cross-Play Because Sony Is Stubborn
This isn't the fault of Nintendo or Epic (the Fortnite developer). You can blame Sony's increasingly aggravating opposition to cross-platform play.

IBM Aims To Reduce Power Needed For Neural Net Training By 100x
Custom silicon for speeding up AI inferencing is here, but IBM wants to go further and use a hybrid computing architecture and elements of resistive computing to also improve the efficiency of training neural networks.

Apple Might Finally Dump Its Proprietary Lightning Connector in 2019
Leaked information suggests Apple might finally be willing to move away from its Lightning standard come 2019.

Sony’s E3 2018: Last of Us 2, Death Stranding, Kingdom Hearts 3, and More
Sony, as the reigning champ of this console generation, has both more and less to prove at a show like E3 than companies like Microsoft and Nintendo.

Microsoft’s Next-Generation Xbox ‘Scarlett’ Reportedly Arriving in 2020
The next-generation Xbox is coming in 2020 according to various sources, setting up the stage for the next major generation in the console wars.