Technology

  They may not have debuted in time for the Galaxy S10 unveil, but Samsung has announced it’ll be turbo-charging storage performance on future devices, courtesy of its new 512GB UFS 3.0 embedded flash drives. UFS (Universal Flash Storage) UFS boosts maximum bandwidth per lane up to 1450MB/s, with up …

  Last year, services like Bird and Lime launched new shared scooter programs around the country, often by deploying the scooters on city streets without permission from local government. There have been a variety of articles discussing the basics of these operations, but relatively little discussion of how much revenue …

  Last week, Microsoft employees sent a letter of protest to their own company, claiming that Microsoft had engaged in war profiteering when it signed a deal with the US military to provide HoloLens technology to soldiers in the field. While close cooperation between the US military and Microsoft is …

  Anyone hungry for higher external bandwidth is in for a treat this year, courtesy of USB 3.2, the latest point update to the USB standard. The USB-IF expects hardware to be in-market by the end of 2019 and the new standard promises to support transfer rates of up to …

  Smartphones used to come in all shapes and sizes — there were phones with keyboards, phones with rotating cameras, and phones with 3D screens. Smartphone design has standardized around the flat, glass slab in recent years, but things are starting to get weird again. Multiple smartphone makers seem to …

  Motorola has a long and storied history in the mobile technology arena, from producing some of the earliest brick-like cell phones decades ago to rolling out the super-thin Razr phones in the early 2000s. Motorola was even one of the driving forces behind Android’s surge in popularity with the …

  For the past few years, Samsung and McAfee have been broadening a strategic partnership to use McAfee software to secure various Samsung products. That partnership is expanding further in 2019. According to Samsung, all of its smart TVs sold this year will use McAfee Security and ship with the …

  Google is exploring a new method of improving site performance in Google Chrome, this time by adding a new back-caching feature that would keep certain data in memory, even after you’ve left a site. The company writes: A back/forward cache (bfcache) caches whole pages (including the JavaScript heap) when …

  In was just a decade ago when we all lived in the golden age of the QWERTY keyboard smartphone. Devices like the Palm Pre and Motorola Droid seemed like viable alternatives to the iPhone largely because they had all those tactile keys for inputting text. Smartphones with physical keyboards …

  Nokia unveiled its latest flagship smartphone at Mobile World Congress this week, and it’s already scheduled for a US release. The Nokia 9 PureView will hit store shelves on March 3, and there will be a special promotion to celebrate. For the first week, the Nokia 9 PureView will …