Technology

  When Samsung showed off its Galaxy Fold on February 20, the company took great care to only highlight the device from certain angles. When it brought the hardware to MWC, it highlighted it from a glass case. Journalists and reviewers haven’t yet had a chance to go hands-on with …

  Asus sells a lot of laptops, and Kaspersky says a shocking number of those devices were infected with malware last year. The sketchy code didn’t get on those machines via a hacked website or malicious browser extension. No, Asus itself pushed the malware to hundreds of thousands of machines after …

  Until recently, experimenting with AI-driven robots has been limited to those with substantial training and resources. Nvidia has done as much as any other company to change that. Its latest effort is the new Jetson Nano developer kit. Built around a 128-core Maxwell GPU and quad-core ARM A57 CPU …

  As 5G technology has ramped up over the past few years, ISPs have started talking about replacing or augmenting expensive fiber networks with cheaper gigabit wireless access delivered via small cell networks. Now that Verizon’s 5G fixed wireless service is up and running, analyst firm MoffettNathanson examined the economics …

  Everyone agrees with the ultimate goal of improving user privacy, but there can be drawbacks to locking down popular services. Users of IFTTT (If This, Then That) are in for a rude awakening next week. Google is rolling out new API restrictions for Gmail that block most of IFTTT’s …

  If you’ve read articles about fitness trackers, they were probably written by compulsive workout junkies who compare them for how well they can track those zillion mile bike rides or marathon training runs. Well, I’m not one of them. But the tech in sleep and fitness trackers is pretty …

  Yesterday, Kaspersky Labs broke news that Asus has been infected by malware that it unwittingly pushed out to its own customers. Asus has responded to the news and acknowledged that it was affected, but it also disputes the number of customers that actually installed infected software. To recap: Kaspersky …

  Palmer Luckey may have left Oculus and Facebook, but he hasn’t stopped talking about VR headsets and design principles. In the months since he left FB, Luckey has sounded off the Magic Leap’s design and created his own homegrown solution to a long-term audio problem with the Oculus Rift …

  A new leak suggests that Asus could be planning to launch a new line of laptops featuring AMD APUs and Nvidia GPUs in the same chassis. These configurations would be offered with Asus’ FX505DU, GU502DU, and GU502DV models. The laptops in question all use either AMD’s Ryzen 5 3550H …

  Samsung just launched the flagship Galaxy S10 series, but it’s not ignoring the midrange. The newly announced Galaxy A70 may offer a more appealing option compared with the extremely expensive Galaxy S10. The Android Pie-based A70 has a massive 6.7-inch display, a 32-megapixel selfie camera, and an in-display fingerprint …