Technology

  When we attended E3 in June for AMD’s Ryzen launch event, company CEO Lisa Su made a curious reference to the long-rumored 16-core CPU. According to her, AMD hadn’t held off on announcing the chip due to competitive reasons, or to see what Intel had in its own pocket, …

  Many people keep their most important files on a mobile device without ever thinking about backing them up to a computer. That makes their phones a prime target for ransomware, and there’s a new attack spreading to Android phones right now. The new Android Filecoder.C malware uses weird “sex …

  Engineering is a field of study that affects every aspect of our daily lives. The only reason we’re able to get up in the morning and brush our teeth or cook breakfast is someone somewhere engineered devices that make these tasks possible. Yet despite its importance, most people have …

  When Nvidia rolled out its RTX family of GPUs last year it was all about gaming. The new Ray Tracing (RT) cores aimed to create more realistic game experiences, assisted by inferencing (AI) cores that enabled the acceleration of low-noise ray tracing. This year at SIGGRAPH, Nvidia is touting …

  Hobbyist drone flyers must abide by a large and sometimes confusing set of rules about where they can and can’t fly. Applications like Airmap and Kittyhawk have become indispensable tools for planning legal flight paths. However, flying near airports and many other types of infrastructure has required a cumbersome …

  During Intel’s quarterly conference call last week, CEO Bob Swan confirmed that the company is, at long last, moving into volume production on 10nm. If you thought Intel had basically given up on scaling its process technology into the new node, that’s not the case. Swan made a number …

  One of the differences that has long separated the realm of science fiction and reality, at least where prosthetics and artificial human augmentation are concerned, is our ability to smoothly knit synthetic or cybernetic components into the human body. In Star Wars, Star Trek, the Marvel Cinematic Universe, or …

  Origin’s Neuron desktops target the high-end of the boutique gaming computer market. These deceptive systems have a fairly plain appearance, but they come packed with the fastest CPUs and GPUs available and compete with the likes of MSI’s Trident X and Corsair’s One i160 gaming desktops. Although the Neuron …

  Nintendo has long tried to do something different with its game consoles. Rather than compete with Microsoft and Sony on raw power, it designs game systems with distinctive features and gameplay mechanics. For example, the Wii’s revolutionary motion controllers, circa 2007. The Switch is a hybrid console that can …

  The last few Pixel phones have leaked in great detail before launch, and the upcoming Pixel 4 looks like no exception. Google already tried to get ahead of the leaks with a recent tweet, but now it’s providing numerous details on the phone, including the inclusion of face unlock …