What’s new
Intel wants to move beyond the PC
The commitment of Intel to PCs is staying but the company announced it is working on a whole lot of other stuff too from drones to virtual reality to machine learning. Regarding the last one Intel is pushing the idea of a single architecture and programming model for machine learning using Xeon Phi for training the models and either Xeon, for best performance per dollar, or Xeon and Altera FPGAs, for the best performance per watt.
More about Intel’s announcements at Computex 2016 here.
Facebook will introduce an AI that will understand everything we post
The latest artificial intelligence system is known as “DeepText, and it will help analyse thousands of posts per second across 20 different languages, all with near-human accuracy. This feature will enable Facebook to identify what we’re saying in posts, messages and other content available via our profile and other pages to better offer suggestions and other helpful options.
More about this technology here.
There is a new big lawsuit, now between Oracle and HP
HP Enterprise demands $3 billion in damages for Oracle’s lack of support for the Itanium chip.
More about the feud and the Itanium chip here.
New products
OnePlus 3 will officially be unveiled on June 14th
The OnePlus 3 is expected to pack a 5.5-inch 1080p AMOLED display, a Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 SoC, a 16-megapixel rear camera, up to 6 GB of RAM, 64 GB of storage, and a 3,000 mAh battery.
You can read more about the launching details here.
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There is a new API that will help open-source developers ‘become license-aware’
Considering all the copyright and license legal battles going on nowadays, and how expensive they can be, the Open Source Initiative (OSI), the steward of the Open Source Definition (OSD), announced today it has created a machine readable publication of OSI approved licenses.
The API can be found at api.opensource.org. The entire source of the machine readable data is stored in a git, available on this link, and the Open Source Initiative says pull requests are “highly encouraged”. Some “very basic” API wrappers have already been published for Python, Go and Ruby.
More about this subject here.
Fun stuff
The most excessive PC mod at Computex 2016 is a cotton candy machine
The MSI “Cotton Candy,” made to coincide with the company’s 30th anniversary, paired the state fair diabetes trap with the PC producers’ own GFX (GTX780Ti), with camouflage motherboard and white liquid cooling system.
More about this sweet treat here.
