NVIDIA ups Competition Using Open Source Collaboration

Let’s imagine that you are a company with a very successful if nuanced product. Graphics accelerator chips, for example. Hypothetically speaking, imagine that you find an interesting use for your chip in a rising market defined by a burgeoning technology. If you need an example, just use deep learning AI software. Now, let’s say this proves to be a massive windfall for your company, raising its stock prices tenfold in just three short years. What do you do with this fortunate turn of events? Do you start designing your own AI chips based on your original design and remain one of the top competitors in this new market, or do you go open source and give your chip architecture designs to the public?

Android Leftovers

• Android 8.1 is just weeks away and comes with a Pixel 2 hardware upgrade

• Samsung's Project Ambience will bring Bixby 2.0 to more devices

• The old Android menu button is lurking in the Google Pixel 2's interface

• Android Wear Oreo beta features disable tap-to-wake setting, manual battery saver toggle

• Google Play Music gets a huge redesign on Android TV

• Nokia 7 is officially announced: Will “Bothies” finally become a thing?

• Want a Linux desktop on your Android phone? Samsung's working on it

• How to play YouTube in the background on Android and iOS

Ubuntu 17.10 (Artful Aardvark) Is Now Available to Download

While there's no official announcement published at the moment of writing, Canonical released the final ISO images of the Ubuntu 17.10 (Artful Aardvark) operating systems and its derivatives. Also: Ubuntu 17.10 Ships Today - Arguably Its Most Interesting Release In Years

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