Remember Intel Broadwell? You know, the CPU architecture that hasn’t even appeared in new PCs yet? That was so last week.
At IDF 2014, Intel talked up Skylake, which is the chip-maker’s next processor architecture after Broadwell, PCWorld reports.
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Though both Broadwell and Skylake are based on Intel’s 14nm manufacturing process, Skylake will feature newly-designed CPUs that could pave the way for truly wireless computing.
Think about the cables you need to set up a PC or even a laptop, including video and USB wires. Computers with Skylake-based chips in them could eventually eliminate the need for such cables, allowing you to hook up a computer to a display, link up with peripherals, and transmit data between multiple devices without them. Wireless charging is also in the cards.
Of course, a new fleet of Skylake-based processors would also come with performance and endurance improvements, according to Intel.
“You should expect a significant increase in performance, battery life and power efficiency,” Intel exec Kirk Skaugen said during a presentation.
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Intel Broadwell chips were supposed to launch by now, but the company has ran into problems with manufacturing. It will be interesting to see whether Skylake CPUs run into similar roadblocks. Intel says that Skylake-based systems will launch sometime by the end of 2015.
In the interim, you can read up on the Core M and Broadwell, which is Intel’s latest CPU designed for laptops and tablets. It will start appearing in multiple new devices, including the Lenovo ThinkPad Helix, beginning this fall.
Did you think hitting delete on your AI chatbot conversation actually makes it disappear? Georgia Tech researchers just proved that's not entirely true. They have built a forensic tool called ORISA that can dig deleted conversations from your phone and even rebuild them into a working chatbot session you can keep talking to.
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Touchscreen laptops have been around for years. You can get them in all sizes and shapes. Just not from Apple. For years, the Cupertino giant has treated the idea of a touchscreen MacBook the way I treat a meeting that could have been an email: with open contempt. However, Wednesday looks like the day the company could finally change its mind.
The latest Apple invite puts the “Pro and Tell” showcase in Los Angeles at 10 a.m. PT (1 p.m. ET) on October 28, 2026. Instead of a regular live-streamed keynote, it is an invitation-only, hands-on event for a handful of press and creators (similar to what the company did for the MacBook Neo earlier this year).
Two residents of Chicago have filed a lawsuit in the US over claims that robots run by Coco Robotics and Serve Robotics captured their facial and hand measurements without consent, bringing renewed attention to the food delivery robots. The cases raise a troubling question: If a robot delivers food to your door, can it also be gathering sensitive information about you?
According to a report by The Associated Press, the proposed class-action lawsuits were filed in Cook County on Oct. 9 and allege violations of Illinois’ Biometric Information Privacy Act. The complaints claim that the robots’ cameras and LiDAR sensors captured information on customers’ faces and hands as they approached the machines to pick up their orders. Both have denied the allegations.