Technology

  The CPU shortage that constrained Intel CPU sales and sent prices trending higher through the back of 2018 could continue to plague Intel through Q2 of this year. While the firm has taken steps to combat the problem, including launching new “KF” processors without integrated GPUs to improve yields, …

  Intel and a consortium of leading technology companies (Alibaba, Cisco, Dell EMC, Facebook, Google, HPE, Huawei, and Microsoft) announced the release of the Common Express Link (CXL) 1.0 standard today, with the goal of creating a new product ecosystem and hardware standard. While it’s built squarely on PCIe (PCIe …

  We’ve already covered the basics of quantum computing in our article on How Does Quantum Computing Work, so now it’s time to dive into one of its most publicized applications: quantum cryptography. Quantum cryptography holds both promises and threats for our current cryptographic infrastructure. The most obvious threat is …

  Currently, Microsoft only sells its Surface Book with two different flavors of Intel CPU. The bottom-end machine sells with a dual-core mobile CPU from Intel’s Kaby Lake days (the Core i5-7300U), while the high-end system packs a Core i7-8650U. In this case, that gap is quite significant, given that …

  You can’t spend long on the internet without hearing about some piece of malware that’s going to take over every Android phone in the world. The hysteria over Android malware is a bit overblown, but it’s led to the proliferation of anti-malware apps that promise to keep your phone …

  There has been more pre-release buzz about the upcoming Android release than usual this year thanks to a leaked build of Android Q several weeks back. It’s no longer so exclusive — the Android Q public beta is rolling out today, and you can install it on any of …

  Microsoft announced its Project xCloud game streaming platform last year, but no one had seen it demoed publicly until last night. At Microsoft’s Inside Xbox event, the company brought an Android phone up on stage and streamed Forza Horizon 4 from its Azure data centers. Or did it? Regardless, …

  Camera maker RED announced its entry into the smartphone market in 2017, hyping up the Hydrogen One. It said the phone would have a “holographic” display, but it was the promise of a modular accessory ecosystem that included a real RED camera sensor that really got people excited. The …

  Smartphone makers are all struggling to find ways to deliver as much screen real estate as possible while still making room for front-facing cameras and sensors. Samsung’s solution with the newly launched Galaxy S10 is the hole-punch or “Infinity-O” design. That might just be a stepping stone to Samsung’s …

  Google has a history of launching too many message apps and then pulling the rug out from under users when it realizes it needs to shut some of them down. The latest chapter in that saga plays out today as Google pulls the plug on Allo. The mobile messaging …