Once upon a time, Palm was perhaps the most well-known maker of mobile devices and “smartphones” in the world. However, changes in the smartphone market left Palm in the dust. The brand had a brief resurgence with the Palm Pre, but even that wasn’t enough to carve out a space …

Intel’s 9th Generation Core desktop CPUs may not have been formally announced yet, but at this point, they’re the worst-kept secret in the semiconductor industry. We know these chips will target higher clocks and that at least some of the SKUs will use solder instead of thermal paste. It is …

Intel CPUs are getting harder to find at retail, and prices are increasing across the channel. Intel has previously telegraphed that meeting demand for its chips could be a challenge in the back half of the year, and it looks like those restrictions are beginning to bite. In July, during …

AMD has announced a new low-end desktop CPU based on its updated Zen core. To date, the company’s Ryzen refreshes have focused on CPUs at $100 and up with at least four cores. This time around, AMD is resurrecting the old Athlon brand and slashing the price on its new …

Canon this week made its leap into the arena of full-frame, mirrorless digital cameras, following Nikon by a couple weeks and Sony the better part of a decade. Some of the Canon’s specs are fabulous: The EOS R camera body has a 30.3-megapixel sensor with 5,655 focus points and the …

Google’s Chrome turned 10 yesterday, and Google has major plans for where to take the browser from here — including options that could revamp how we experience the internet at its most fundamental level — the URL. For the past few years, Google has been considering how to transform the …

The dust storm on Mars is over, but Opportunity has yet to wake back up. Earlier this summer, the rover was forced into hibernation mode by an extreme Martian dust storm that darkened the skies of the Red Planet to a level we’ve literally never seen before. Most of the …

By all rights, NASA’s Kepler spacecraft should have stopped working long ago. The observatory launched in 2009 with the aim of finding out how common exoplanets are throughout the universe. It turns out: very common. Mechanical failures forced NASA to change Kepler’s mission profile, but it still kept working until …

So you thought group-buying was dead?! Not in Southeast Asia where Fave, a company that aims to connect local merchants with customers using discount sales, has closed a $20 million Series B round as it explores expansion opportunities. The startup began as fitness subscription service KFit, but it pivoted group-buying and …

Nowadays, those of us who shop for everyday goods online are accustomed to said goods arriving on our doorstep 24 to 48 hours after we click ‘buy.’ That’s because of Amazon; the e-commerce giant’s next-day delivery feature is a sweet, sweet deal, but for smaller e-commerce businesses that are trying …