Technology

  There’ve been a lot of nervous eyes on TSMC of late. Apple’s iPhone sales shortfall bit the company hard earlier this month after it announced an expected 14 percent drop in Q1 2019 revenue relative to the same period in 2018 and that it expected demand to remain weak …

  Intel’s stock lost a significant amount of value after its Q4 2018 earnings announcement on Thursday, though the company rallied a bit on Friday, taking some of the bite out of the hit. Investors were evidently concerned about the chip manufacturer’s guidance for 2019, despite the extremely strong showing …

  Most malware that pops up online targets Windows, but Apple’s platform is not immune. There’s a particularly sneaky new piece of malicious code floating around the web that hides in plain sight to attack macOS. The so-called VeryMal payload makes its way into computers by way of ad image …

  Google has proposed a series of changes to Chrome that, if adopted in their current form, could cripple how ad blocking works within Chromium-based browsers. The impact of the changes wouldn’t be limited to ad blocking — other projects like NoScript and a wide range of other extensions would, …

  A class-action lawsuit against AMD alleging that the company misrepresented the capabilities of its Bulldozer and Bulldozer-derived product lines will proceed to trial after a federal district judge opted not to dismiss it out of hand. While US district judge Haywood Gilliam’s decision is not a judgment in favor …

  The Chinese smartphone manufacturer Meizu has announced an unusual device — a smartphone with absolutely no ports at all. The new device, dubbed ‘Zero’, doesn’t just eliminate a headphone jack — it has no SIM card slot, no speaker grill, no charging port, or physical buttons of any sort. …

  If a new report is accurate, Intel won’t allow its 14nm shortage or 10nm struggles to keep it from pushing ahead in overall chip manufacturing. Over the last few months, the company has taken several steps to address its 14nm production shortfall, including shipping a new line of recently …

  For the most part, asking why Apple won’t support things is a futile endeavor. Much ink has been spilled criticizing the company’s various design decisions and raising questions about its product families, particularly in recent years, as prices have risen and product decisions have seemed to prioritize form over …

  Most high-end smartphones switched over to OLED panels years ago, but Apple stubbornly kept using LCDs. Granted, they were top-quality LCDs, but OLED has become the industry standard. Apple finally started using OLED with the iPhone X, but the iPhone XR still has an LCD. This might be the …

  Android updates have been a mess for as long as there have been Android updates, and none of Google’s past attempts to improve the situation have gone anywhere. In Android 8.0 Oreo, Google implemented Project Treble, which was supposed to make it faster and easier for OEMs to roll …