Technology

  Over the past couple of weeks, FaceApp—the AI-driven photo augmentation tool for smartphones—became the source of a major data privacy controversy that appears to have been greatly overstated. Nevertheless, it points to a clear and common issue about the rights we may give up with potentially any app we …

  Consumer home security cameras continue to proliferate, and Amazon-owned Ring has been under fire for the way it cooperates with police to share video footage. A newly leaked document indicates the company’s “Law Enforcement Neighborhood Portal” comes with some strings attached. Ring reportedly required at least one police department …

  Apple debuted its custom butterfly keyboard mechanism in the 2015 MacBook before expanding it to the MacBook Pro in 2016. At the time, the company claimed the butterfly switches were a revolution because they made keyboards so much thinner. However, MacBook users have had no end of problems with …

  Samsung wanted to launch the fantastically expensive Galaxy Fold back in April, but the first batch of review units failed left and right. Samsung recalled the units to rework the foldable display, and now it says the phone’s redesign is complete. The Galaxy Fold will ship in September for …

  Microsoft has changed its approach to developing Windows in recent years. Instead of launching major new revisions of the OS that require paid updates, it just keeps rolling out changes to Windows 10. It has, on occasion, released features before they were ready. Today, Microsoft accidentally released an internal …

  Corsair, the PC gaming peripheral manufacturer, has bought Origin, the boutique gaming PC builder company. The purchase price has not been disclosed. According to Corsair’s CEO and founder, Andy Paul, the decision to buy Origin was made as a way to extend Corsair’s reach into the PC space. “With …

  One of the most puzzling data points of the past few years has been AMD’s complete failure to gain market share according to the Steam Hardware Survey. We’ve always warned readers that the SHS might not be accurate, based on problems we’ve observed in the data set in the …

  Camera maker RED got the internet in an uproar when it announced it would release an Android phone. However, the Hydrogen One turned out to be an overpriced and underperforming mess in spite of the “revolutionary” 3D screen. RED founder Jim Jannard has posted an update on the company’s …

  One of the dubious gifts of modernity has been the rise of so-called “blackouts,” or periods when content isn’t available on the pay-TV service you, erm, pay for, due to payment disagreements between the companies that make TV content and the companies that broadcast TV content. According to the …

  Asus has never been a major part of the smartphone world, but the company’s gaming-focused ROG (Republic of Gamers) brand attracted some attention last year with the original ROG Phone. Now, a follow up known as the ROG Phone II is on the way. It still has a funky …