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AI Chatbots Are Better at Math When They Pretend to Be Star Trek Characters

Researchers told an AI models to start its answers with the phrase "Captain's Log." It gave more accurate responses, and they have no idea why.

The U.S. Wants to Spend $52 Billion on Chips, if Only It Could Pass This Damn Bill

A bipartisan bill would push over $52 billion toward American semiconductors, but it’s seen some opposition from Sanders and the GOP.

The FTC is Desperate to Regulate These Multi-Billion Dollar Tech Buyouts and Mergers

Regulators are on a crusade against enormous corporate mergers, but big tech is getting close to completing some of the biggest acquisitions in U.S. history.

Log4j Vulnerabilities Are Piling Up as Companies Scramble to Patch

Security professionals recently discovered additional log4j vulnerabilities. They're already causing trouble.

Log4j: Just How Screwed Are We?

A vulnerability in a widely used Apache library has caused Internet-wide chaos—and the trouble may just be starting.

The Biggest Hacks of 2021 (So Far)

From Colonia Pipeline to SolarWinds to Twitch, cyberattacks are inflicting historic pain worldwide. Here are the biggest cyberattacks this year.

VMware Updates to Support Windows 10

Want to bring the (surprisingly good) power of Cortana to your MacBook? Well, there’s now two options. https://gizmodo.com/parallels-11-can-put-microsofts-cortana-on-your-mac-1724883769 Parallels and VMware have long been the two options for running Windows programs on OS X, and that isn’t going to change one bit for Windows 10. Parallels announced an updated version for Microsoft’s new OS last…

Google has announced that, in collaboration with VMWare, it’s starting to port Windows software to run in its Chrome OS. Time for Microsoft to worry?

Can VMware Put a Virtual Machine On Your iPhone?

Steve Herrod wants to put a virtual machine on your phone. Even if your phone is an iPhone. Herrod is the chief technology officer at VMware, a company famous for virtual machines – machines that exist only as software. VMware made its name in the data center, helping big businesses save both money and space…

Masochist Runs Windows XP On an iPad

First there was Windows 95 on an iPad. People cringed, but apparently they did not cringe enough, as someone else has managed to get Windows XP up and running on an iPad. Macheads, avert thy eyes! https://gizmodo.com/windows-95-running-on-an-ipad-what-hath-god-wrought-5515146 The “someone” in this case is Dave Soble, CEO of Evolve Technologies. He was crowing about his “accomplishment”…

Parallels Thrashes VMware Fusion When It Comes to Graphics

There are two popular options for virtualization software: VMware Fusion and Parallels. But which is better? MacTech did a detailed comparison and they found out that there was an obvious winner when it came to handling graphics. Sure, if you’re seriously into playing games odds are that you’re not going to rely on either Parallels…

How To: Run Windows in OS X, the Right Way

If you’re anxious about switching from a PC to a Mac, consider this: There are a multitude of ways you can virtualize Windows within OS X, and they all work uniquely well. Here’s how to choose the right one. There are three major virtualization products for Mac, and at their core, they’re all quite similar.…

Iomega v.Clone App Portable-izes Your Entire PC

It’d be easy to get knotted up in jargon describing v.Clone, so let’s stick with the concept for now: It’s a syncable, complete image of your PC, which you can boot run from basically any other PC. And it’s free. To anyone who’s used mainstream backup software, this probably sounds too good to be true.…

VMWare: Your Next Smartphone Might Run Two OSes At Once

In an interview with Computerworld, VMWare’s head of mobile phone virtualization has indicated that the company wants to move beyond dual-boot systems to allow phones to run a private and work operating system at the same time. They’ve already demonstrated the potential on a Nokia N800 running Windows CE and Android concurrently; now they’re looking…

VMWare Fusion 3 Fuses Snow Leopard and Windows 7 With Full 64-Bit Power

VMWare’s Fusion 3—with full support for Snow Leopard and Windows 7—is out today. Besides being natively 64-bit in Snow Leopard, it lets you migrate a PC to your virtual machine, launches Windows apps like native apps, and more. It now supports OpenGL 2.1 and DirectX 9 Shader Model 3.0, giving you some more graphics powah…

Google Loses Guy Who Caused Steve Ballmer To Throw a Chair

Remember the incident back in 2004 where Steve Ballmer threw a chair across the room when he heard an employee was leaving Microsoft to go to Google? That guy, Mark Lucovsky, is leaving Google for VMWare. If Google’s Eric Schmidt doesn’t up the ante and throw a table, maybe Ballmer was right in calling him…

VMWare Fusion vs. Parallels Desktop for Mac: Which Is Faster?

Ironically, it’s one of the biggest decisions you make when you get a Mac: How should I run Windows on it? Parallels or Fusion? An exhaustive battery of benchmarks by MacTech reveals a clear winner. The short story is that in most cases, Parallels runs a solid 14-20 percent faster than Fusion, except in the…

VMWare For Mobile Devices Lets You Run Windows and Android Simultaneously

Ok, this is even cooler than we expected: a Nokia N800, loaded with VMWare’s MVP hypervisor, is seen here running Windows CE and Android, at the same time. This is a big deal! https://gizmodo.com/vmware-pushing-virtual-machines-for-smartphones-will-s-5083023 What you’re watching is, admittedly, virtualization. The MVP hypervisor is a small (20KB) “bare metal” virtual machine which runs beneath the…

VMware Pushing Virtual Machines for Smartphones, Will Support Parallel OSes

VMware, which consumers know mostly for their Fusion desktop virtualization software, is moving into the mobile space, albeit surreptitiously. The company has announced VMware MVP, a thin layer of software that will interface between handsets’ hardware and operating system, allowing for a standardized development platform across any handsets that include it. What does this mean…

VMware Fusion 2.0 for Macs, Virtualization With 100 New Features

To those who’d rather run two OSes at once than dual boot with Boot Camp, VMware has released the 2.0 version of Fusion. It includes over 100 new features, including the option to load Windows programs without a Windows desktop, a Time Machinesque backup utility, and completely mirrored file sharing independent of OS. There’s also…