Technology

  Woof. The run-up to launching 7nm Ryzen and Navi has been the most aggressive period of hardware testing I’ve done in a long time — maybe ever. We made the decision to focus on pushing out as robust a data set as we possibly could for both CPUs and …

  New speed test data from Ookla shows that both Verizon and ATT have boosted mobile network performance in the past 12 months, though our absolute world ranking compared with other nations remains mired in the middle of the pack. In Q1 2019, the United States ranked 40th in the …

  App store spending is continuing to grow, although not as quickly as in years past. According to a new report from Sensor Tower, the iOS App Store and Google Play combined brought in $39.7 billion in worldwide app revenue in the first half of 2019 — that’s up 15.4% …

  SpaceX launched its first full batch of Starlink internet satellites in May aboard a Falcon 9 rocket. These spacecraft will eventually become part of a massive swarm that beams broadband data down to the masses, but the reliability of SpaceX’s hardware isn’t perfect just yet. The company reports that …

  Rockets and space travel are both fascinating topics, but few people really hold a firm understanding of just how rockets work or how space travel is possible. Udemy’s Rocket Engineering and Interstellar Space Propulsion course ($12.99) provides a considerable amount of information on both topics crammed into a short …

  If you intend to upgrade the RAM on any of your computers and said machines are powered by DDR4, it’s time to bite the bullet and do the upgrade. While we can’t literally guarantee that RAM prices won’t continue to decline, they’ve fallen far enough to qualify as an …

  You might be the type to dig around in the Windows settings to make tweaks, but that’s just the tip of the iceberg. The Windows registry contains a plethora of low-level settings that control various aspects of the OS. Microsoft used to perform regular backups of the registry, but …

  A few years ago, AMD announced a major joint venture with a newly created Chinese subsidiary company. That venture, called THATIC, has helped fund some of AMD’s activities over the last few years (at the time the venture was announced, AMD declared a value of $293M). Last week, we …

  The wait is almost over for phone buyers who look at the Galaxy S10 and wish it had more features. Samsung will unveil the Galaxy Note 10 on August 7th. As usual, the teaser invitation doesn’t provide all the details, but we can confirm it’s a Note phone with …

  China has famously invasive security and surveillance operations, but activists report at least one region of the country has gotten even more Orwellian. Multiple news agencies have joined forces to analyze a new piece of malware, which Chinese border agents are forcing tourists to install on their phones. The …