Technology

  Mac users in years past could look smugly at Windows users, who were plagued by malware that targeted their much more popular platform. Microsoft didn’t even start bundling the Windows Defender antivirus with the operating system until fairly recently, and now it’s expanding to offer Defender to Mac users. …

  Google rolled out the Project Stream demo last year, letting players experience the new Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey in a browser. We all suspected this was just the start of a major game streaming initiative for Google, and now we know for certain. At GDC 2019, Google has unveiled Stadia, …

  It’s time for spring cleaning over at the Googleplex as the company prepares to close several products. Google+ is going away in the coming weeks, which won’t cause many to shed a tear, and Allo closed last week to the disappointment of no one. However, the impending shutdown of …

  Android has grown to become the largest computing platform on the planet, and that makes it a target. You can’t spend much time on the internet without hearing about some new piece of Android malware that’s going to definitely, 100 percent wreck your phone. These reports are always based in …

  Intel and the Department of Energy have announced plans to deploy the first supercomputer with a sustained performance of one exaflop by 2021. That’s a bit of a slip compared to previous milestones — in fact, that 2021 delivery date means Horst Simon should win the bet he made …

  Apple essentially owns the premium tablet market now that Google’s interest in Android tablets is waning. The updated iPad Pro models launched several months ago brought new designs and many of the features from the company’s new iPhones. Apple’s latest tablet announcement focuses on the lower end of the …

  Star Trek: Deep Space 9 is my favorite Star Trek show. When Paramount announced that it would extensively remaster both Star Trek and Star Trek: The Next Generation, I was excited. When both of those remastering efforts turned out to be good, I was ecstatic. And then, Paramount declared …

  Microsoft Windows 10 came with a new browser that was supposed to do battle with Google’s Chrome. Despite constant nagging and fiddling with default app settings, Microsoft has admitted that people don’t want to use Edge. So, it’s creating a new Edge based on the open-source Chromium engine. Now …

  The case of Canadian cryptocurrency exchange QuadrigaCX just got a lot more complicated. After CEO Gerald Cotten’s death late last year, the company said it was unable to access the wallets holding customer funds because Cotten was the only person with the passwords. After examining data provided by the …

  Another day, another Facebook privacy scandal. Last year, we discovered that the company was using the phone numbers users provided for two-factor authentication and selling them to advertisers. Now, it turns out that the company also allows end users to be targeted in this fashion when you sync contacts …