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AMD hasn't truly said goodbye to mobile devices.

The company is open to making a graphics processor for mobile devices based on its Radeon product line, but only in select circumstances, said Raja Koduri, senior vice president and chief architect of AMD's Radeon Technologies Group.

AMD could make a mobile GPU as part of a partnership or a licensing deal, but otherwise has no active plans to build an end product for mobile devices, Koduri said this week.

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General Motors today announced the launch of a short-term vehicle rental program exclusive to the Lyft ride-sharing service.

Uncle Sam wants your brain power, technical expertise and imagination to help defend the U.S. No enlistment required.

HTTPS is widely considered one of the keys to a safer Internet, but only if it's broadly implemented. Aiming to shed some light on how much progress has been made so far, Google on Tuesday launched a new section of its transparency report dedicated to encryption.

Imagine having to go to a retail store or use a thumb drive just to upgrade the software on your smartphone or tablet. Soon, consumers may consider it just as outrageous to do the same when updating the software in their vehicles.

Millions of people will buy VR headsets in the coming years to play games and view 3D content, and those sales could spark a real-world war among chip makers.

Some Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 users have begun to howl over Microsoft's practice of automatically upgrading their PCs to Windows 10, saying that they were never given a chance to decline the upgrade before it installed itself.

In a rare confluence of events, all three branches of the federal government are weighing changes that would affect when and how personal data is accessed.

Everywhere we look, machines are getting smarter and more connected to our lives. Starting from simple activity-tracking wearables such as Fitbit, all the way to airlines tracking fuel efficiencies, the Internet of Things, or IoT as we often call it, offers enormous potential for the way we live, travel, and operate businesses.

It was challenging enough for marketers to try to understand their customers back in the desktop era, but today's multidevice world makes it even more difficult. Enter Google, which just launched a new suite of tools designed specifically to make that process easier.

Don't tell anyone I told you this, but I'm starting to think Google's got it out for me.

A war in low-cost computers may be in the making as a new $15 board computer that could challenge Raspberry Pi 3 finally ships.

Smartsheet is a difficult product to categorize. Part office productivity, part project management, part document sharing, Smartsheet -- despite its spreadsheet-like interface -- is trying to be the central hub for how people work.

Like many people, I have a WordPress blog, and I ask my readers to identify themselves when they post comments by authorizing WordPress to access their Facebook or Twitter profiles. This helps me filter out anonymous trolls and spammers. 

Microsoft announced Tuesday that it is on track to land a series of key certifications in its continuing effort to provide cloud services to the U.S. government.

Manufacturers are slowly warming up to the idea of putting portions of their complex ERP systems in the cloud, according a report by Technology Evaluation Centers (TEC).

To say the tech job market is competitive is an understatement. Companies are looking for any advantage when it comes to recruiting and retaining talent. Some of the smarter companies are actively creating communities of alumni, hoping that many top performers will choose to return to their organization.

IT security consulting is an excellent way to grow as a security professional. In contrast to an corporate role, consultants are exposed to a variety of business situations and industries. Those who succeed in the consulting world find themselves equipped with greater skills and knowledge of cutting-edge technologies.

It looks like I've missed Pi Day by some fraction of a day, but I can't help but get a little excited when this special day rolls around -- especially if pi turns into pie. And, while I can't remember much past 3.14159 in my head, I know that calculating pi to some outrageous number of digits can be pretty exciting and that we can do that fairly easily on Unix systems.

Dropbox moves 90% of its data off Amazon AWS, in favor of its own private cloud. Dropbox built its own, custom storage servers, to store half an exabyte or more, mirrored across three regions.

AMD's Raja Koduri is a soft-spoken and mild-mannered man, but bring up the topic of virtual reality, and he's unstoppable.

Google DeepMind’s AlphaGo artificial-intelligence program won the last round in a five-game contest against top Go player Lee Se-dol, despite making a bad mistake during play.

Visions of the future clashed during South By Southwest (SXSW) Interactive in Austin, as some experts saw an uncertain future, some saw an unbounded future and some were frustrated by the present.

The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration's drone registration system is about to hit the 400,000 mark, three months after it was launched.

Big paper-products company is bought out, and that means it's time to go into major cost-cutting mode, reports a contractor pilot fish on the scene.