When HMD took over the Nokia smartphone brand, it started by focusing on Europe and Asia. The company has slowly expanded more into North America with devices like the mid-range Nokia 6.1, and now there’s an even cheaper Nokia phone headed to American shores. The Nokia 3.1 launches on July …

A few years ago, every phone manufacturer was racing to offer the highest megapixel count in its cameras. Now, it’s increasingly about how many cameras you can cram into a phone. It’s common to have two on the back now, but LG is reportedly going a bit crazy with the …

Intel’s decision to fire CEO Brian Krzanich for his decision to engage in a consensual violation of company policy has sparked a raft of think pieces on the topic, including those revisiting Intel’s current market position and its relative strength against companies like Qualcomm and AMD. One argument making the …

Micron announced it’s begun mass production of GDDR6, the next-generation memory standard for video cards that’s expected to take over for GDDR5 in the larger market. Micron’s announcement notes in particular that the company has begun production of its 8Gb (1GB) GDDR6 memory ICs. Micron recently achieved throughput up to …

Over the last few years, as Intel has launched one successive generation of Core after the other, the meaning of the word “generation” has begun to slip. With gains often being marginal from one generation to the next, the relative impact of each upgrade has been fairly small. PCWorld has …

For several years Adobe has touted its Sensei framework for incorporating AI into its image editing tools for more realistic noise reduction, cloning, and object removal. Unfortunately, that effort is also one more reason it’s become harder to detect image fakery. So Adobe Research, along with the University of Maryland, …

A team of paleontologists from the University of California, Riverside and the South Australian Museum has discovered the fossils of two soft-bodied animals that lived in the shallow oceans about 550 million years ago (Ediacaran period). Obamus coronatus. Image credit: University of California, Riverside. Named Obamus coronatus and Attenborites janeae, …

New research reveals that a well-preserved 52-million-year-old bird fossil specimen from the early Eocene of Wyoming, the United States, is from a previously unknown relative of turacos, a group of birds that is presently endemic to sub-Saharan Africa. Modern turacos, like these Knysna turacos (Tauraco corythaix), are tree-dwelling and live …

The Best Temperature To Set My Thermostat In The Summer Posted on June 26, 2018 by Mike Strayer Summer is here—and with that, its scorching heat makes us want to turn up our air conditioning and avoid the outdoors. But doing so can put quite the strain on your energy …

Caffeine consumption has been associated with lower risks for multiple diseases, including type 2 diabetes, heart disease, and stroke, but the mechanism underlying these protective effects has been unclear. A new study, published in the journal PLoS Biology, shows that a caffeine concentration equivalent to four cups of coffee promotes …