Archaeologists in Greece have unearthed what they believe are the remnants of the long-lost ancient city of Tenea. An aerial view of the archaeological excavation site near Chiliomodi, Greece. Image credit: Greek Culture Ministry. Tenea was an ancient Greek (then Roman) city founded in the 12th or 13th century BC. …

In the ARM ecosystem, Apple has emerged as one of the only companies building its own high-performance custom CPUs. Other onetime rivals, like Qualcomm, have taken to licensing parts from ARM instead of building their own architectures. The field, however, isn’t empty — Samsung also has a custom CPU designed …

For most of human history, people wondered if there were other planets out there in the unfathomable reaches of space. It turns out there are some very close to Earth, though. A team of astronomers has revived interest in Barnard’s Star, which hangs in space just six light years away. …

Le Bron passes Wilt Chamberlain on all-time scoring list; Jimmy Butler loses in 76ers debut The big news was Le Bron James, who put up a monster game, and passed Wilt Chamberlain on the all-time scoring list in the process. The 33-year-old superstar passed Wilt for fifth on the all-time …

Google’s Project Fi mobile service sells people on its inexpensive pay-as-you-go data service and access to multiple networks. However, that setup also means its harder for Google to make any claims about the fate of your data as you roam from network to network. Google is doing the next best …

Google’s smartphones used to have some of the worst cameras in the Android ecosystem, but it started to catch up with the final Nexus phones in 2015. Then in 2016, Google suddenly jumped to the head of the pack with the computational photography features of the first-generation Pixels. Google has continued …

Just over a week ago, we covered news from Asia Nikkei Review suggesting that Apple might have significantly cut its orders for new iPhones, specifically the iPhone XR. At the time, I suggested taking the news with a grain of salt, noting that there were many reports of low iPhone …

Intel has launched its new line-up of Core X microprocessors at substantially higher clock speeds compared with the chips it launched a year ago. At the top of the stack, there’s the new Core i9-9980XE with a base clock of 3GHz and a boost clock of 4.4GHz (4.5GHz if Intel’s …

Microsoft has re-released the October 2018 update six weeks after pulling it for a file deletion bug that wiped the Documents directory of a small number of users. The delay was then further extended by the discovery of additional bugs that had also slipped past the company’s detection methods. As …

Intel has been working hard to gain acceptance of its depth-sensing RealSense camera for quite a few years now. It has demoed them in all sorts of devices, but most people only know about them if they have a laptop with one. With its new D435i model, Intel is trying …