Intel Xeon Scalable processors are 1.65X faster than previous server chips

Intel is launching a series of server processors that it says are 1.65 times faster than its previous generation of chips. The Intel Xeon Scalable chips range from 8 cores, or processing brains, to 28, and they represent the chip giant’s biggest effort to stay ahead of rival Advanced Micro Devices, which recently launched its […]

Employers can pay women less based on previous salaries, US court rules

A ruling from a traditionally left-leaning federal appeals court allows employers to pay women less than men for the same job, as long as a man was paid more at his previous job and the employer’s policies justify using past salaries to determine pay. On Thursday, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in the […]

Pregnant women under more scrutiny than any previous generation

Researchers from Cardiff University interviewed mother and grandmother pairs and found that community surveillance of pregnant women and infant feeding had significantly increased between the generations.  Many of the mothers reported feeling watched and evaluated by family, friends and strangers and some spoke of being questioned by strangers about their choices during pregnancy and when […]

Instagram nabs 400 million daily active users less than a year since its previous milestone

Instagram now has 400 million daily active users. The photo-sharing app’s unabated growth has seen it add an extra 100 million new daily users to its already impressive tally in just over seven months. The new data was casually dropped by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg during his company’s fourth quarter earnings call on Wednesday. Facebook […]