As the weather warms up, you might find yourself staring out an office window, daydreaming about what you'd rather be doing: lazing outdoors, perhaps, on a large blanket with a picnic bounty spread before you. In fact, people have been fantasizing about picnics as a return to a simpler life pretty much since the dawn of urban living, says Walter Levy, author of The Picnic: A History. "Picknicking coincides with modern history — the shift from pastoral to urban living, the decline ...
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Earlier this year, ARM announced its Cortex-A72 — a new custom microarchitecture from the CPU designer that builds on and refines the 64-bit Cortex-A57. Ordinarily it takes up to 24 months for new ARM cores to come to market, after the company announces a new CPU design. But Qualcomm has*told us to expect Cortex-A72 cores by the end of the year. If true, that would make this one of the company’s fastest ...
= As the pace of Moore’s Law has slowed and shifted, every process node has become more difficult and complicated to achieve. The old days, where a simple die shrink automatically brought faster chips and lower power consumption, are now gone. Today, companies perform a die shrink (which makes most aspects of the chip perform worse, not better), and then find supplementary technologies ...
Jackson Pollock cooks with his wife, the artist Lee Krasner, and his mother, Stella Pollock, in the kitchen of his home in Springs, in East Hampton, N.Y., 1950. Courtesy Pollock More...
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