Technology

  Neural networks have been a hot topic of late, but evaluating the most efficient way to build one for processing a given stack of data is still an arduous affair. Designing systems that can use algorithms to build themselves in the most optimal fashion is still a nascent field …

  Neural networks have been a hot topic of late, but evaluating the most efficient way to build one for processing a given stack of data is still an arduous affair. Designing systems that can use algorithms to build themselves in the most optimal fashion is still a nascent field …

  Ads are a necessary component of modern technology, but they come with drawbacks even when they aren’t being used to scam people. Some ads in Android apps have been scamming people, though. An investigation by ad analysis firm Protected Media, and Buzzfeed News has found that a popular ad …

  When ATT rebranded its LTE service as “5G E” in certain markets in an attempt to mislead consumers, companies like Verizon, T-Mobile, and Sprint cried foul, as did users. There’s been little interest in repeating the confusion of the early 4G transition when that moniker was hijacked and used …

  Opera is a small player in the global browser market, but it’s no spring chicken. It predates Chrome, Edge, and most of the other modern browsers. Opera has been rolling out new apps and features in an effort to gain market share, and its latest effort is a free, …

  Those MS Paint doodles you made in the 90s might have been works of art just waiting to happen, and you never knew it. All they needed was some help from a generative adversarial network (GAN). Nvidia has shown that AI can use a simple representation of a landscape …

  Samsung has announced its latest version of HBM2 (High Bandwidth Memory) with a sharp increase in capacity and overall performance. It’s likely a response to the advent of GDDR6, at least in part — the gap between the two memory standards has shrunk significantly. Back when HBM debuted, the …

  Three years ago, Oculus and HTC launched their first VR headsets and kicked off… the slow, gradual rise of VR technology in gaming? Yeah. It’s not the most dramatic headline. But today, we’re getting a look at what Oculus’ second-generation Rift device will offer, and it’s a significant improvement …

  Facebook has acknowledged storing hundreds of millions of user passwords in plaintext files for years, dating back to at least 2012. To quote my colleague, David Cardinal: “Of course they did. Can we just pre-write horror stories about Facebook so we’ll be ready when each of them become true?” …

  Nobody likes their ISP, and T-Mobile thinks that gives it an opening to expand into a new market. The carrier has announced an invitation-only pilot of its new home internet service, which will support as many as 50,000 homes this year. Of course, this is all part of T-Mobile’s …