Technology

  Upgrading a computer’s boot drive from a traditional hard drive to an SSD is one of the single best performance upgrades ever. But, if you’re like many of us, when you did it SSDs were expensive, and NVMe models even more so. So you bought a not-that-huge SATA version. …

  It’s getting to be the time of year we expect to see leaks of the upcoming Google Pixel phones. Although, we traditionally don’t expect those leaks to come from Google itself. Following a handful of blurry spy shots, Google has tweeted an image of the upcoming Pixel 4 on …

  For a good while, you’d rarely find a computer without an Intel CPU. But with the rise of GPU-centric processing in blockchain and AI, as well as ARM’s dominance in mobile computing, Intel has struggled greatly to keep up in recent years. With a renewed necessity to innovate, Intel’s …

  With the launch date of AMD’s upcoming Zen 2 architecture fast approaching, the company has pulled back the curtain and given us a view into the capabilities and improvements of its new uarch. These new chips include a number of improvements and benefits to drive both higher instructions per …

  At first glance, Velocity Micro’s Raptor Z55 (starts at $1,249; $2,999 as tested) could easily be mistaken for your everyday home computer. Slap a Dell logo on the front and many people would accept it as just another office PC. But underneath its almost entirely black aluminum exterior rests …

  US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has confirmed that a data breach has exposed the personal information of travelers into and out of the US. The data reportedly includes photos and travel documents, but the real problem here is the data wasn’t even being stored on a CBP network. …

  When AMD announced 7nm Ryzen was coming at CES 2019, sharp-eyed readers immediately noticed that there was room on the die for two 7nm chiplets, not just one. The possibility of a 16-core Ryzen 7 built on 7nm instantly became the worst-kept secret of the product family. When AMD …

This year’s edition of Mary Meeker’s Internet Trends report, released earlier today, once again included a section on China prepared by Hillhouse Capital. There are now 3.8 billion Internet users globally, more than half of the world’s population, but growth is slowing (as demonstrated by declining smartphone shipments). Internet leaders …

Mobile gaming continues to hold its own, accounting for 10% of the time users spend in apps — a percentage that has remained steady over the years, even though our time in apps overall has grown by 50% over the past two years. In addition, games are continuing to grow …

Goodwill and mobile marketplace app OfferUp have announced a new partnership focused on bringing Goodwill’s secondhand inventory to the millions of OfferUp shoppers, for both local pickup and delivery. The deal sees more than 100 Goodwill stores listing their inventory in OfferUp in New York, New Jersey, San Francisco, San …