Technology

  YouTube’s comments section has a bad reputation. It’s even been called “the worst on the internet,” and a reflection of YouTube’s overall toxic culture, where creators are rewarded for outrageous behavior — whether that’s tormenting and exploiting their children, filming footage of a suicide victim, promoting dangerous “miracle cures” …

  Google has a long and complicated history with tablets stretching all the way back to the Motorola Xoom, the first officially sanctioned Android slate. It released a few tablets under the Nexus and Pixel line, including the new Pixel Slate. However, Google’s hardware team is throwing in the towel …

  Ever since the Trump Administration kicked off a trade war with China, there have been questions about what kinds of impact this could have on the consumer electronics market. The Consumer Technology Association has released its own report estimating the potential impact if the Trump Administration’s latest round of …

  For the last decade, our sister site PCMag.com has performed an annual driving survey of wireless network performance across the United States, called Fastest Mobile Networks. Every year, staff members crisscross the country, testing download and upload speeds, as well as signal strength and latency. For the last few …

  Intel has released a new automatic overclocking tool that might actually be worth using, provided you meet the rather stringent requirements for doing so. Historically, automatic overclocking options offered by manufacturers have never been worth using in my own opinion. These types of solutions tend to offer little to …

  Kano PC, a company apparently dedicated to building low-cost computing blocks to introduce kids to both hardware and coding, has teamed up with Microsoft to offer a buildable Windows 10 laptop that kids can assemble themselves.   Historically, building a PC was a difficult endeavor. Back when I was …

  Whoops. The Eurasian Economic Commission has accidentally leaked AMD’s entire upcoming Rome product stack. While we don’t know the CPUs clock speeds yet, the data revealed shows model numbers, core counts, and TDPs. If true, AMD plans to expand the total number of SKUs it offers. Currently, the company …

  Mozilla switched to a Chrome-like release schedule years back and has kept up a consistent release cycle ever since. It doesn’t usually deviate unless there’s a serious issue. Well, there’s a serious issue. Mozilla advises all Firefox users to update to the latest version of the browser as soon …

  Google is in the process of bringing more Nest operations in-house, and it can’t happen too soon. Nest has been hit with several security and privacy glitches lately, and the latest one might be the most severe yet. Users of the Nest Cam report that factory resetting the camera …

  The damage to Huawei keeps on spreading. Last week, Western Digital CEO Steve Milligan announced his company had stopped doing business with the embattled Chinese manufacturer. It’s the latest blow to Huawei’s business after the US announced sanctions against the company last month. While Huawei accounts for less than …