New story in Technology from Time: Mark Zuckerberg Takes Leave from Facebook to Focus on His Family

(NEW YORK) — Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg says he’s taking parental leave this month to spend more time with his daughters. Zuckerberg said on Facebook and Instagram over the weekend that “you’ll hear from me a little less” during this time. Facebook offers four months […]

AMD and Qualcomm join forces to power higher-end connected PCs

AMD unveiled its Ryzen mobile chips, which feature integrated Radeon Vega graphics, in October. Ryzen CPUs were designed to provide desktop-class performance while still allowing for a small enough footprint for thin-and-lights. The company has revealed two Ryzen mobile processors so far, both of them […]

Microsoft launches Windows 10 on ARM, with HP and ASUS promising 20+ hours of battery life

Windows laptops and tablets have traditionally run on X86 processors from the likes of Intel and AMD. Microsoft experimented with using ARM-based processors when it launched the Surface RT and Windows RT in 2012 — and it cost the company dearly. The failure of the […]

HP and Asus unleash first Snapdragon 835 laptops with 20-hour battery life

Over at the Snapdragon Technology Summit in Hawaii, Qualcomm has revealed the full details on the much-talked-about (see here, and here) Windows 10 laptops driven by Snapdragon 835 chips, and laid out the specs of the first machines from HP and Asus. These so-called ‘always […]

Shervin Pishevar takes immediate leave of absence from Hyperloop One and Sherpa Capital

Shervin Pishevar, co-founder of Sherpa Capital and co-founder of Hyperloop One, is taking an immediate leave of absence from both companies, as well as from his board responsibilities at Sherpa’s portfolio companies. Pishevar, in his statement via a lawyer, said it was his idea to […]

Boom’s supersonic jets get $10 million boost from Japan Airlines

Notably, Boom said, this is the first time an airline has actually made a financial commitment to supersonic aircraft before they’ve been available. Air France and British Airways technically pre-ordered the Concorde, but they didn’t put any money down and had their costs heavily subsidized […]