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2020 Olympics in Tokyo will use facial recognition technology

Hundreds of terminals from Intel and NEC will scan the faces of athletes, sponsors, volunteers and other accredited people at the next summer Olympics.

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<p>Sri Santhanam, vice president of silicon engineering, shows off Apple's new A13 smartphone chip.</p>

Apple's A13 chip in the iPhone 11 phones are 20% faster

The new chip is built with a more power-efficient transistor technology, too, to save battery life.

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The best food processors you can buy today

From shredded cheese to almond butter, we put these processors through their paces to find the best.

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<p>Intel chip engineer Wilfred Gomes holds a prototype of the company's Lakefield processor for ultrathin laptops at the Hot Chips conference.</p>

Intel's low-power Lakefield chip will show up in weird new PCs

Intel's innovative Foveros chip-stacking technology will debut in unusual new laptops with dual screens.

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<p>Moore's Law and other aspects of chip progress are alive and well, TSMC research leader Philip Wong says.</p>

Moore's Law is 'well and alive,' iPhone chip builder says

TSMC's research chief challenges pessimists with a bullish view on memory, 3D chip stacking and faster processor ingredients.

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<p>Two big, square AI processors power Tesla's third-generation full self-driving car computer. Tesla showed the computer at the Hot Chips conference.</p>

Meet Tesla's full self-driving car computer and its AI brains

Tesla's in-house chip is 21 times faster than the older Nvidia model Tesla used. And each car's computer has two for safety.

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9 great reads from CNET this week

How Craigslist's founder wants to change the world, what the moon will look like 50 years from now, and why some see Facebook's $5 billion FTC settlement as a bargain.

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<p>Intel fits 16 neuromorphic Loihi chips on its Nahuku board. It uses 64 of the research chips to make its 8-million neuron Pohoiki Beach computer.</p>

Intel packs 8 million digital neurons onto its brain-like computer

Using 64 Loihi processors, the company takes a notable step toward a digital brain.

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<p>Support for high-speed Thunderbolt connections accounts for a sizable fraction of the circuitry on Intel's new 10nm Ice Lake processors.</p>

High-speed Thunderbolt ports are getting better -- but so is USB

But USB is good enough for most of us -- and getting better.

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<p>Intel's Project Athena aims to improve a wide range of PC abilities at the same time.</p>

Intel's Project Athena aims for laptops with both power and battery life

Maybe you'll reach for your PC instead of your phone.

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<p>Intel's 10nm Ice Lake processors</p>

Intel promises faster laptops with Ice Lake chips this year

How does an 18% speed boost sound to you?

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Meet Intel's Ice Lake processor, due to speed up PCs in 2019

Intel's quad-core chip should speed up PCs in 2019.

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