The streaming industry believes it has a serious problem: Password sharing. The solution? Various draconian measures meant to ensure that the only people watching a stream are people who have paid for the privilege, up to and including mandatory biometric authentication. Imagine Microsoft announcing that in order to prevent Windows …

Paleontologists in Switzerland have unearthed an exceptionally rare fossil jaw of an ancient creature known as a pliosaur. Life reconstruction of the Arisdorf pliosaur with a diver for scale. Image credit: Joschua Knüppe. Pliosaurs were a type of short-necked plesiosaur: marine reptiles built for speed compared to their long-necked cousins. …

One of the primary selling points for Google’s Pixel phones is that they get monthly security updates and new Android versions for three years. The original Pixel phones launched in 2016, and that means they’ve hit their end of life. Google released new monthly patches for its phones yesterday, and …

iOS 13 has been problematic since launch. Apple pushed iOS 13.1 out in record time, but the problems haven’t been resolved, even with the release of iOS 13.2. As fast as Apple has quashed old bugs, new ones have been introduced. According to multiple sources, iOS 13.2 has introduced what’s …

As Adobe continues to broaden its Creative Cloud offering it’s hard to keep track of all the new applications, let alone all the new features. This week at MAX, updates arrived for just about every piece of Adobe’s creator ecosystem. We’ll take you through some of the most significant for …

Silicon Lottery, a website that specializes in selling overclocked Intel and AMD parts, has some 9900KS chips available for sale. The company is offering a 9900KS verified at 5.1GHz for $749 and a 9900KS verified at 5.2GHz for $1199. What’s more interesting to us are the number of chips that …

It is not a secret that US companies assemble towering mountains of data on their customers. Over the years that we’ve covered the intersection of privacy and the internet, it’s been openly acknowledged that there are vast data brokers operating behind the scenes, selling information about us to other companies …

Whether Nvidia’s bold claim that its new Xavier NX ($399) is “the world’s smallest supercomputer for AI at the Edge” is true or not, there is no doubt it will be an impressive accomplishment when it ships in March. Packing similar power to the current Xavier into the tiny form …

AI is everywhere these days. SoC vendors are falling over themselves to bake these capabilities into their products. From Intel and Nvidia at the top of the market to Qualcomm, Google, and Tesla, everyone is talking about building new chips to handle various workloads related to artificial intelligence and machine …

AMD has had a great 2019, but the year isn’t over yet. Team Red will deliver a pair of upgrades for the desktop CPU market in a few weeks with the launch of its 16-core Ryzen 9 3950X (first teased last summer) and the upcoming 32-core Threadripper 3970X and 24-core …