Technology

  Microsoft launched the Microsoft Store as the “Windows Store” with Windows 8. At the time, it had a plethora of categories like apps, music, video, and ebooks. Now, it has a much narrower focus. After previously ditching music, the Microsoft Store has dropped ebooks. It’s not hard to see …

  Intel’s new Cascade Lake Xeon servers don’t just offer a dramatic increase in core count (up to 56 cores with the latest Cascade Lake-AP CPUs). They also offer a significant increase in total memory capacity, courtesy of Optane DC Persistent Memory. Current conventional DDR4 DIMMs top out at 128GB, …

  Apple isn’t expected to have a 5G phone in-market before 2020, even though the hype-cycle on the new technology will be kicking off in 2019. That’s no big deal, in and of itself. 4G LTE modems took time to mature and early models sucked far more power than later …

  A recent pilot program launched by Google has transformed the launcher on Android TV sets, updating them to include advertisements. This is the very last thing most users want, particularly users who have shucked out top dollar for televisions that don’t display ads. XDA-Developers broke the initial story, with …

  Image credit: Chris McGrath/Getty Images Since the 2016 election, social media companies have faced the beginnings of a reckoning for their complete failure to protect the security or privacy of their users and to protect their platforms from being exploited by foreign actors, scam artists, and conspiracy theorists. Facebook …

  AMD has announced that its CEO, Dr. Lisa Su, will give the 2019 Computex keynote address. The company is expected to unveil its next-generation of high-end products at the event, with launch dates kicking off throughout the summer. According to the Taiwan External Trade Development Council (TAITRA), the topic …

  The Nokia brand returned from its Microsoft-imposed exile a few years back under the stewardship of HMD Global, which repurchased the Nokia name from Microsoft after its phone business imploded. The new generation of Nokia handsets run Android and focus mainly on the midrange. Its latest phone is the …

  T-Mobile and Viacom this morning announced a deal that will bring Viacom’s TV channels — like MTV, Nickelodeon, Comedy Central, BET, Paramount and others — to T-Mobile’s new mobile video service planned for later this year. The agreement will allow T-Mobile to offer live, linear feeds of the Viacom …

  You would think that after all its recent privacy missteps, Facebook would exercise a little more caution when it implements new features. Alas, this is Facebook, so it’s still blundering from one crisis to the next. Its latest ill-conceived scheme involves asking users to hand over their email passwords. …

  When Intel unveiled Optane in 2015, it declared it had created a fundamentally new type of memory that could revolutionize the industry. Four years later, signs of that revolution have been hard to come by. Optane DC Persistent Memory — Optane DIMMs loaded into memory slots with higher capacities …