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Summary: Google's focus on core features puts Nougat ahead of iOS 10 as Apple fumbles about trying to freshen up the user interface and revitalize stale apps. Android 7.0 Nougat is now out, and while only owners of recent Nexus device such as the Nexus 6, Nexus 6P, Nexus 5X, Pixel C, or Nexus 9 tablet currently get the benefit of this release, it's clear that Google is moving in the right direction. All this while iOS 10 -- still in the beta stage -- feels like it's in the doldrums. Nougat seems to have been a smooth release for Google, with no reports of any widespread issues, which you'd expect from the fact that Google keeps a tight grip over the Nexus hardware ecosystem. However, given that Apple has an equally tight control over its hardware ecosystem, and yet still manages to fumble, I think a problem-free release is noteworthy. Nougat also contains some rather nice features that I'm sure iOS users would like to see come to the iPhone and iPa...

Summary:  AMD wants to get into high-end desktop CPUs once again. "Our focus is on high-performance CPUs and GPUs." This is what AMD CEO Dr. Lisa Su told journalists gathered at an event on 18th August night in the San Francisco, a stone's throw away from the Intel Developer Forum gathering.And AMD has been putting the time and effort into powerful silicon lately. AMD makes the processors for both the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, including the One S and the upcoming Project Scorpio, and it also released a very capable $200 graphics card in the form of the Radeon RX480. Now AMD is once again setting its sights on the desktop PC. At the event, the company officially delayed new CPUs based on its Zen architecture until "early 2017." But AMD was keen to fire a shot of Intel's bow at the event by showing a rendering demo where an 8-core/16-thread engineering sample Zen CPU outperformed an Intel 8-core/16-thread Broadwell-E CPU - Intel's $1,100 hi...

Summar y: Seagate has taken the wraps off its whopping 60TB solid-state drive for the enterprise. Seagate says its SSD has twice the density and four times the capacity of Samsung's 15TB PM1633a. Image: Seagate/Twitter Seagate has been showing off its monster 60TB solid-state drive (SSD) this week, which breezes past the 15TB SSD that Samsung launched in March. But don't expect to see Seagate's SSD in a consumer device any time soon, with the new drive set to join the high-performance end of its datacenter portfolio. Samsung's   PM1633a has a 2.5-inch form factor   and holds 15.36TB of data. For now, it remains the largest commercially available SSD and   reportedly costs $10,000 per unit . Seagate's 60TB Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) SSD on the other hand opts for the familiar HDD 3.5-inch form factor. The company says that its drive has "twice the density and four times the capacity" of Samsung's PM1633a, and is capable of holding up to...

Summary: Microsoft has acknowledged officially that the Windows 10 Anniversary Update will be its only feature upgrade to Windows 10 this year. Two new feature refreshes are coming in 2017, however.   While a number of us Microsoft watchers have been saying for a while that the Windows 10 Anniversary Update would be Microsoft's only feature update to Windows 10 in 2016, now Microsoft officials are acknowledging the same. In a recent   TechNet article itemizing new IT pro features for the Anniversary Update   (codenamed "Redstone 1"), Microsoft officials included this line: "Windows 10, version 1607 is our third Windows 10 feature update released. Based on feedback from organizations moving to Windows 10, this will be our last feature update for 2016, with two additional feature updates expected in 2017." (I saw the line above in   a post by The Verge's Tom Warren , who saw it on   Windows Central .) The first Windows 10 feature release by Mi...