Twice, Intel’s top executive, Navin Shenoy, had to come out and practice the promised transparency by addressing the reboots that an unknown number of users were suffering when applying the company’s patches against Meltdown and Specter. Although at first it was pointed out that they affected Broadwell and Haswell processors, the story was repeatedon Kaby Lake, Skylake, Ivy Bridge and Sandy Bridge chips, more modern generations.

Firefox Quantum made many Chrome users and other browsers jump to the new Mozilla proposal. The company continues to make progress to improve the experience, and Tab Warming is the best proof of that.

Normally, users complain about the large amount of resources that a browser uses. Pages are increasingly sophisticated and having multiple tabs open causes consumption to skyrocket. For this reason, developers have been looking for ways to improve the experience for years without reducing the number of pages that you may have open simultaneously.

Images filters have dominated many applications since a platform, Instagram, put them in fashion. They are on Twitter, Facebook and other social networks, in conventional graphics editors, in photo retouching applications and, now also, in PC games thanks to a new beta feature of the GeForce Experience software.

The Government of Canada has partnered with a company specialized in artificial intelligence, Advanced Symbolics, to analyze messages from 160,000 social media profiles looking for suicidal tendencies. The objective of the Canadian administration is to predict increases in the risk of suicide in the different territories and provinces of the country.

Earlier this month, the European Union made it clear that extremist content should be eliminated in one or two hours, asking companies such as Facebook, Google or Twitter to improve the moderation process.

The problem comes when you have a platform with 2 billion active users, since moderating all the generated content becomes a titanic task. The company’s 7,500 moderators do not seem to deal with the amount of work they have.

iA Writer is one of the most popular applications to write on iOS, MacOS and Android, the three systems for which it is currently available. Its so successful minimalism, how much it helps concentration, the added functions it offers and its markdown support make it almost unique. And this 2018, we are assured from iA , will finally be available for Windows.

Have you seen too many photos of a family member’s new pet? Is a friendship tempting you too much by posting pictures of everything you ate during your last vacation? According to Facebook account, “it turns out that you are not alone”. That’s why he presents Snooze, a new feature that will be available this week.

The idea is simple: if the publications of a friendship, a group or even a page are overwhelming you, but you do not want to eliminate them or stop them from continuing indefinitely, thanks to this option you will stop seeing your publications for 30 days. At the end of that period of time everything will return to normal, although if we wish we can finish the temporary silencing first.

Firefox Quantum has already landed among us, and to the delight of many it is an exceptionally striking browser version due to its great speed and commitment to new technologies.

One of these new technologies is precisely the change of the development model of the add-ons for the browser, which will now use the WebExtensions calls. This is good and bad at the same time. On the one hand we will have more powerful extensions and easier to develop, and on the other, many of the old supplements have stopped working.

For years, smart mobile phones have conquered the day to day of the majority. Spain, without going any further, is one of the most important smartphone territories in the world. That’s why the figures of mobile navigation are increasing and users consider this class of devices as their main window to the network . The mobile, then, continues to rise.

The use of crypto miners like Coinhive, one that was born as an interesting proposal to monetize websites asking users a small percentage of use of their CPU to mine cryptocurrencies like Monero, is increasingly leaning towards the worrying side.

We already talked about how The Pirate Bay had started using it without asking users, or how some extensions for Chrome were abusing the same thing. But the problem is not limited to the browser, but it has also reached the Android applications.