Technology

  Microsoft has decided that because Windows Update can’t properly check to see if you have enough hard drive space available before it applies updates, the solution is to simply steal more of the user’s hard drive space and reserve it for OS updates. Starting with Windows 1803, Microsoft began …

  Samsung will launch its new lower-priced Galaxy M series in India before the smartphones roll out globally. Asim Warsi, senior vice president of Samsung India’s smartphone business, told Reuters that three devices will be available through its website and Amazon India at the end of January and are intended …

  YouTube is updating its mobile app to make it easier to navigate through videos. The company announced it will this week roll out a new horizontal swiping gesture that lets you move forward and backward through the videos you’re watching. Swiping forward takes you to the next recommended video, …

  Micron and Intel have had a long and apparently fairly profitable partnership over the past few years, but the two companies are moving away from each other. As announced last fall, Micron will exercise its right to buy out Intel’s share of the IM Flash Technologies fab unit in …

  The Internet of Things central promise is that by allowing internet and compute-enable products into your home, you can enjoy luxuries and conveniences like voice assistants, different colored light bulbs that change on command, and a really smart toaster. There are always going to be tensions between certain IoT …

  Over the last decade, most of the buzz around self-driving has focused on the vision originally launched by Google (now Waymo) and later Tesla and others, of a Level 5 (fully, really, truly, autonomous no matter what) personal automobile that you could afford and blissfully relax in the back …

  When AMD announced the 3rd generation of Ryzen products (Matisse) at CES last week, it also showed a bare shot of the actual CPU package. The CPU layout shows that there’s clearly room for another chiplet on-package, just below the I/O die. (AMD has separately hinted that it has …

  Apple has a tendency to announce products when it’s convenient, but not necessarily when they’re done. This has led to some significant waits for the company’s promised technological marvels to actually hit store shelves. The most recent example of this is the AirPower charging pad, which Apple announced alongside …

With so much to see and so little time to CES Las Vegas has come to a great end .. the world has so much to be excited about in the world of technology and innovation. Here is an inside look of some of the cool things to come in the …

  Ever since AMD launched its Threadripper 2990WX, there have been questions about how effectively it could scale in multi-threaded workloads. Initially, the performance drops and slowdowns in certain workloads were attributed to the asymmetric memory controller configuration — only some Threadripper die have direct access to memory controllers, while …