Microsoft has broken into the top five PC OEMs in the US thanks to the overarching success of the Surface family and the collapse of Acer’s business over the same time period. While Acer remains a major worldwide vendor, with some 6.1 percent of the worldwide market and over 4 …

The foundry business was shaken earlier this year when GlobalFoundries announced it would leave the leading edge and no longer planned to offer a 7nm process. TSMC, on the other hand, is eager to tell its customers that new node ramps, including the introduction of uncertain technologies like EUV, are …

There are a lot of great reasons to install solar panels. We’re not going to cover all the pros and cons in this article, but if you have decided to go forward or are looking for tools to help you make that decision, we offer some hard-earned lessons from our …

There have been rumors for months that Google was planning a gaming platform that would stream over the internet, and then Google just announced Project Stream last week with no fanfare whatsoever. This invite-only test of Google’s game streaming technology comes with free access to the new Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey …

Basking in the sun can be a great way to spend an afternoon while replenishing your vitamin D. However, too much time in the sun can lead to a nasty sunburn and an increased risk of skin cancer. Why are we so vulnerable to sunlight when it’s all around us? …

This last week has been a rough one for space news, to say the least. The iconic Hubble Space Telescope has been placed in safe mode following a hardware failure, and a Soyuz booster failure resulted caused NASA Nick Hague and cosmonaut Aleksey Ovchinin to abort their trip to the …

Half of all devices are now running the latest version of the iOS mobile operating system, iOS 12, according to figures shared by Apple . On devices introduced in the last four years, that number is as high as 53 percent. And iOS 12 adoption is taking place more quickly …

This summer, Facebook launched Fb.gg, its online gaming hub and Twitch competitor, designed to attract game streamers and their fans to watch videos on Facebook instead of on rival sites. The destination shows videos based on which games and streaming celebrities users follow, plus Liked Pages and Groups, and other …

A new study, published in the journal Icarus, reveals Ganymede — the largest and most massive moon of Jupiter and in the Solar System — appears to have undergone complex periods of geologic activity, specifically strike-slip tectonism, as is seen in the San Andreas Fault on Earth. Ganymede, larger than …

The Mobile Asteroid Surface Scout (MASCOT), a lander carried by JAXA’s Hayabusa-2 spacecraft, successfully completed its historic exploration of the near-Earth asteroid Ryugu on October 3, 2018, as its battery ran out. An artist’s impression of MASCOT during landing. Image credit: DLR. MASCOT was developed by the German Aerospace Center …