Technology

  Huawei’s no good, very bad year continues to get worse. The company came into 2019 with a growing market share and some impressive technology. Huawei unveiled a folding phone just a few weeks after Samsung, and most would agree the Huawei mate X looked much sleeker than the Samsung …

  Google publicly disclosed its acquisition of homework helper app Socratic in an announcement this week, detailing the added support for the company’s AI technology and its relaunch on iOS. The acquisition apparently flew under the radar — Google says it bought the app last year. According to one founder’s …

  For years, Amazon has offered a label on certain products denoting that they were “Amazon’s Choice.” For years, it’s been unclear exactly which products are chosen for this heady designation or what sales targets, user ratings, or other qualifications they must achieve to be so labeled. Amazon describes Amazon’s …

  Kaspersky Labs does not enjoy the best reputation. The company has been linked to Russian intelligence, the Department of Homeland Security has banned its use in government computers, and Best Buy will not sell its products. In 2017, news broke that the Israelis had observed Russian intelligence operatives using …

  The Raspberry Pi Foundation’s single-board computers have garnered quite a bit of fanfare over the last decade due to the product’s low price point and versatile features. It’s been three years since the non-profit organization first launched the Raspberry Pi 3, which is just short of an eternity in …

  If you own a Surface Pro 6 or Surface Book 2 and you’ve noticed slower-than-expected performance lately, we’ve got good news: You aren’t imagining it. We’ve also got bad news: Currently, there is no fix, though Microsoft is reportedly working on one. There have been reports on Reddit from …

  Motorola was technically the first company to offer a 5G phone, but it wasn’t actually a new phone. Its 5G Moto Mod on Verizon added 5G capability to the Moto Z3 earlier this year, and it later expanded to the newer Moto Z4. Now, Motorola and Verizon have expanded …

  Motorola essentially invented the cell phone and wowed everyone with the Razr in the early 2000s, but it’s had a harder time innovating in the smartphone era. There have been super-slim Moto phones, customizable phones, and modular phones, but some of the company’s most successful are the safer mid-range …

Today when you search on Google, you can find many different forms of information, from videos and images to tweets and recipes, but there’s always more information out there. There are more than two million podcasts on the web, and we’re now making it easier to find and listen to …

The AI lab gets to throw Microsoft’s supercomputing and cloud computing muscle at its bid to build artificial general intelligence (AGI). The news: Microsoft says OpenAI will help it jointly develop and train new AI technologies for its Azure cloud computing service. It will also work with it to develop new …