Technology

  Mobile World Congress this past February included the unveiling of several notable smartphones like the Nokia 9 PureView and LG G8. However, one device got an inordinate amount of attention — the Energizer Power Max P18K Pop. Hiding behind that clunky name was a phone with a gigantic 18,000 …

  Samsung really doesn’t want you to know that the Galaxy Fold is a badly designed product. Two days after iFixit posted the results of a teardown in which they referred to the Galaxy Fold as both “alarmingly fragile” and “overwhelmingly fragile,” the Korean company intervened to get the article …

  On Wednesday, May 1, AMD will celebrate the 50th Anniversary of its own founding. While we lobbied the company to release life-sized cutouts of Jerry Sanders, AMD has opted to actually build products instead. Unlike Intel’s 8086K “Anniversary Edition” from last year, however, the new Ryzen 7 2700X Gold …

  Earlier this year, Microsoft announced that it would begin using ~7GB of user hard drive space for the application of future updates. The advantage of this system is intended to be that it doesn’t break the update process halfway through by a system running out of space. The disadvantage …

  This year is looking like a remarkably good time to be in the market for a NAND SSD, with drive prices cratering across the board. It’s not, however, a very good time to be a NAND manufacturer. As prices have fallen, multiple companies have announced plans to draw down …

  Since we last did a roundup of the best outdoor security cameras and strategies for deploying your own video surveillance system, there have been some exciting changes. First and foremost, 4K has become a popular and affordable option. While 4K doesn’t really matter for simply discovering someone is on …

  Last week, Samsung shipped out the first Galaxy Fold units to reviewers. This week, it recalled those units and announced it would hold off on shipping the phone until it performed failure analysis on the four known devices to have already broken. We don’t know what the formal results …

  In the middle of working on an update to our articles on home video surveillance systems, I bought one of Nvidia’s new Jetson Nanos. While playing with the $99 board and using it to do object recognition using a variety of cameras, it suddenly occurred to me that it would …

  Ever since Intel announced that its 10nm process node would be delayed once more, there have been questions about exactly when the process would be introduced. Chipzilla has committed publicly to having 10nm hardware on shelves by the holiday season of 2019. A new roadmap leak would put the …

  We knew the Samsung Galaxy S10 5G was going to be expensive, given that the Galaxy S10e, S10, and S10+ start at $750, $900, and $1000, respectively. Now that Verizon has announced its pricing for the Galaxy S10 5G, we know exactly how expensive it’s going to be. Spoiler …