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<p>Intel announced partnerships with Microsoft and Cisco that will speed up cybersecurity software by making more efficient use of Intel's processors.</p>

Intel: Our chips can make you safer

After addressing the Spectre and Meltdown design flaws, Intel is using its chips to boost cybersecurity software at Microsoft and Cisco.

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<p>Google uses AI for services like search, translation and face detection, but its AI chips, which it calls tensor processing units, run in data centers. Now AI chips are spreading to phones, PCs, cars and more.&nbsp;</p>

AI chips may give you a real reason to upgrade your smartphone

Processors with artificial intelligence will spread from today's top-end phones to cars, PCs, security cameras, smart speakers and mainstream phones.

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AMD Ryzen 2nd-gen is on its way

Boxed versions of the new Ryzen 7 2700 and Ryzen 5 2600 series processors are slated to ship next week.

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Get excited this spring for these PCs and tablets

CES brought computer lovers much to gawk at, from futuristic concepts to machines you'll be able to buy in the coming months.

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Netflix and YouTube streaming video is about to get a lot faster

AV1 compression technology from companies like Google, Microsoft, Amazon and Netflix is here. And it's blowing up the video industry's patent rules, too.

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<p>David Patterson, left, and John Hennessy won the 2017 ACM Turing Award for inventing RISC processors. They're now pushing special-purpose chips such as Google's Tensor Processing Unit, center, for speeding up AI.</p>

RISC reward: Turing Award goes to computer chip inventors

Stanford's John Hennessy and Berkeley's David Patterson win the $1 million prize for unlocking processor power that's key to today's computers and phones.

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<p>Xilinx CEO Victor Peng</p>

New flexible computer chips could rewire an AI near you

Chipmaker Xilinx is betting its new Everest design will accelerate today's computing chores -- and appeal to programmers, not just hardware nerds.

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<p>The Spectre vulnerability in several processors can let an attacker snoop on sensitive data like passwords and encryption keys.&nbsp;</p>

Intel will block Spectre attacks with new chips this year

Cascade Lake processors for servers, coming this year, will fight back against a new class of vulnerabilities, says CEO Brian Krzanich.

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<p>Google's Bristlecone quantum computing chip</p>

Google says Bristlecone chip could ignite quantum computing

Google's quantum computing effort takes a big step forward, and the company thinks a prototype could outdo conventional machines in some tasks.

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Intel halts some chip patches as the fixes cause problems

The chipmaker's updates were meant to fix the Meltdown and Spectre design flaws, but have been causing computers to unexpectedly reboot.

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<p>These three images, each compressed to a size of 28KB, compare JPEG, the HEVC encoder used in Apple's HEIC format, and an experimental photo format based on the forthcoming AV1 video technology.</p>

Photo format from Google and Mozilla could leave JPEG in the dust

Apple's got one idea for next-gen photo technology, but a rival approach based on the new AV1 video compression tech could go a step further.

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<p>Arm Holdings CEO Simon Segars is working to make sure mobile chips are secure.&nbsp;</p>

Bad news: A Spectre-like flaw will probably happen again

Our devices may never truly be secure, says the CEO of the company that designs the heart of most mobile chips.

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Help, my PC with Windows 10 won't shut down properly

Since upgrading to Windows 10 my computer won't shut down properly. I use the menu button shutdown and the screen goes blank, but the system does not fully shut down. The only way to get it to shut down is to hold the physical power button down till it shuts down. Any suggestions?