Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, digital photography, AI, quantum computing, computer science, materials science, supercomputers, drones, browsers, 3D ...

As wireless technology evolves and grows ever more seamlessly into the fabric of our daily lives, there remain significant problems to solve. Discrepancies in connection speed, known as latency, may ...

Imagine this 5G use case: A building collapses. It’s too dangerous to send in the human rescuers, but there may still be survivors under the rubble. You send in a robot—but it needs super-sensitive ...

It may sound inevitable that a summer of streaming live sports and festivals will put more demand on the home network. Whether watching Wimbledon tennis matches, Euros football finals, or live music, ...

Obsidian Research Corporation, the leader in InfiniBand range extension, helps NASA bring the power of its top-rated Columbia supercomputer to SC06 by using the Obsidian Longbow XR to transparently ...

While data center managers have long used heat maps to help determine where to best position racks of servers and cooling units, this mode of visualization can also be handy for better understanding ...

Google researchers have warned that large language model (LLM) inference is hitting a wall amid fundamental problems with memory and networking problems, not compute. In a paper authored by ...