Genetically modified plants have existed for many years, but the processes used to make the modifications are surprisingly inefficient. Researchers at the University of California Berkeley have developed a technique that could make plant genetics considerably more precise. Rather than the “spray and pray” approach, scientists might soon be …

  Microsoft’s Xbox One unveil and initial positioning were, to put it simply, a disaster. The company’s vision of an all-in-one media center box that served as a sort of hub for home entertainment, streaming services, and gaming at a higher price point ultimately didn’t survive contact with Sony’s simpler, …

  Spinning hard drives are no longer the backbone of the average computer thanks to the increasing affordability and capacity of solid-state NAND chips. However, the spinning drive is far from dead — if you need the most bang for your storage buck, traditional hard drives are still king. It …

  Western Digital is launching a refresh for its WD Blue SSD product line, this time with a jump to NVMe. Where the current Blue SSD family is restricted to SATA interfaces, the new SN500 will support transfer rates roughly 3x faster. Sequential transfer rates of 1,700MB read and up …

  If you like seeing the latest and greatest technology the PC industry has to offer, reviewing is a pretty great job. It’s rare that I feel much in the way of jealousy as far as other people’s computers are concerned. Reviewing hardware isn’t the same as owning it but …

  The CPU shortage that constrained Intel CPU sales and sent prices trending higher through the back of 2018 could continue to plague Intel through Q2 of this year. While the firm has taken steps to combat the problem, including launching new “KF” processors without integrated GPUs to improve yields, …

  Intel and a consortium of leading technology companies (Alibaba, Cisco, Dell EMC, Facebook, Google, HPE, Huawei, and Microsoft) announced the release of the Common Express Link (CXL) 1.0 standard today, with the goal of creating a new product ecosystem and hardware standard. While it’s built squarely on PCIe (PCIe …

  We’ve already covered the basics of quantum computing in our article on How Does Quantum Computing Work, so now it’s time to dive into one of its most publicized applications: quantum cryptography. Quantum cryptography holds both promises and threats for our current cryptographic infrastructure. The most obvious threat is …

  Currently, Microsoft only sells its Surface Book with two different flavors of Intel CPU. The bottom-end machine sells with a dual-core mobile CPU from Intel’s Kaby Lake days (the Core i5-7300U), while the high-end system packs a Core i7-8650U. In this case, that gap is quite significant, given that …

  You can’t spend long on the internet without hearing about some piece of malware that’s going to take over every Android phone in the world. The hysteria over Android malware is a bit overblown, but it’s led to the proliferation of anti-malware apps that promise to keep your phone …