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The rumor mill pegged Apple as working on a smartwatch for several years before the Apple Watch finally launched. The long development timeline gave everyone else a chance to launch their wearable platforms, but wearables haven’t been the explosive success technology firms had hoped. Even Apple’s eventual Apple Watch launch …

The phone industry may officially have many players, but in the United States its nearly a duopoly between Samsung and Apple. Worldwide, those two companies extract virtually all the profit from the phone market, but that’s a different topic. It can be difficult for other companies to stand out in …

Last month, we covered Red’s announcement of its upcoming phone. Not only did the announcement drop out of the blue from a company known for making high-end cameras and projectors, it was staggeringly priced, at $1,195 for the aluminum version and $1,595 if you wanted it in titanium. That’s before we …

The forthcoming Fall Creators Update for Windows 10 will do a great many things, including asking you to review your privacy settings every 15 minutes until it comes out later this year. As part of the update, Microsoft will be rolling some functions into different ones, and wholly eliminating others. Some …

There’s a new iOS update out, 10.3.3, and if you use Wi-Fi on your iPhone and are still running OS X, you’ll want to grab it immediately. There are a number of other security patches and bug fixes within this version of the OS. But the Wi-Fi problem is grabbing …

The specifics of Apple leaks can be all over the map, but one thing is certain this year: Apple is planning something big to celebrate the iPhone’s tenth year of existence. The “iPhone 8” is expected to have a larger edge-to-edge OLED display, similar to the Samsung Galaxy S8 and …

For the past few years, Qualcomm has been the undisputed king of premium smartphone SoCs. While not every company uses Qualcomm’s Snapdragon processors, its LTE modems have been extremely successful. Other companies have begun to take more market share, but for several years, Qualcomm virtually owned the entire LTE market. …

Earlier this April, Imagination Technologies announced that it would no longer provide key graphics IP to Apple within 15 to 24 months (July 2018 to April 2019). The announcement sent the company’s stock plunging, and Imagination soon announced that it would seek to sell off at least two business segments: …

Apple’s autonomous car project has morphed yet again. This time, it’s being described as a massive exercise in artificial intelligence that concentrates on self-driving. It appears Apple may be leaving the hardware part — the steel, glass, and rubber car — to others. The latest information comes from a reliable …

One of the concerns people expressed way back when the first iPhone launched was, “Aren’t glass phones going to break?” Well, yeah they are. In fact, Apple has been making a surprising amount of cash repairing broken iPhone screens over the years. It hasn’t exactly made it easy for third-party …