Technology

  Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) will be purchasing Cray to the tune of $1.3B. The deal represents a 17 percent premium over Cray’s current stock price. Cray, of course, is Cray — one of the leading companies in supercomputing, though its own role in that process has transformed over the …

  Whenever I’m teaching Adobe’s Lightroom to photographers in a workshop or on safari, the most common question I get isn’t about some missing feature. It’s about getting a good understanding of the tools that are available and how best to use them. For 2019, Adobe has put that concern …

  Trying to work out where 5G service actually exists is a tricky proposition right now, and malvertising efforts like ATT’s fake 5G “E” service aren’t helping. Ookla, the developers of the popular Speedtest application and website, have rolled out a new 5G coverage map service worldwide to illustrate where …

  Once upon a time, motherboard chipset updates were major news — mostly because we were impatiently waiting for circuit engineers to fix whatever they’d broken in the previous hardware release. There’s a lot less of that these days, happily, but the flip side of that equation is that motherboards …

  Intel may move its Optane production to Fab 68 in China after its deal with Micron unwinds — and, of course, likely assuming that the ongoing Chinese trade war is resolved by then. For years, Micron and Intel have operated a joint flash foundry, IM Flash, in Lehi, Utah. …

  OnePlus started as a scrappy (and annoying) upstart company that promised to “kill” flagship phones and invited buyers to “Never Settle.” It began by offering phones that cut a lot of corners but cost hundreds less than the competition. Little by little, OnePlus has improved its hardware and software, …

  Facebook-owned WhatsApp is the most popular messaging platform in the world with more than 1.5 billion active users. That makes it a big target for hackers, and one group reportedly discovered a vulnerability that allowed them to inject malware into phones. All they had to do was place a …

  Most laptops have a single display for obvious reasons, but you could make the argument that Apple’s Touch Bar is a second display. It can adjust to show useful buttons and even run various tools and apps. The newest HP gaming laptop has what is essentially a Touch Bar …

  All the wireless services we now enjoy require careful licensing and regulation to prevent interference. That’s why the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and similar agencies in other countries carve up the electromagnetic spectrum into blocks and auction them to companies. The FCC began a new round of auctions …

  The incredible success of Windows XP has been something of a double-edged sword for Microsoft. On one hand, it dominated the desktop PC space for years with that OS, but it also struggled to move beyond XP. After trying for years to end update support, Microsoft finally retired XP …