Technology

  Officially, Internet Explorer is dead. Microsoft has discontinued the browser as of IE11 and replaced it with Edge. IE is, however, still maintained alongside the operating systems that it ran on, which means it’ll keep getting security updates throughout the lifetime of Windows 7 and 8. Microsoft has just …

Apple will allow iOS users to gift in-app purchases, not just paid apps, according to a change to the company’s App Store Review Guidelines spotted this week. This means developers may soon have the tools to allow users to purchase virtual goods or even subscriptions through their app, which can …

The app economy is continuing to grow, both in terms of app downloads and consumer spending. According to preliminary year-end data shared by App Annie, it’s predicting the number of global app downloads in 2018 will surpass 113 billion, up 10 percent from last year. Consumer spending in apps has …

  In an era when all cars are pretty good and all cars are pretty safe, these 10 cars, SUVs and pickups stand out as the best of 2018. They advance the state of the art in technology as well as driving refinement and driving pleasure. Life is too short …

The rollout of a new cellular data standard is rarely a cheap endeavor, but ATT’s early pricing for its brand-new 5G service is raising eyebrows even so. The company declared itself the first firm to make mobile 5G service live today, thanks to its new service in parts of 12 …

The smartphone spec race isn’t as hot as it once was with almost every flagship phone sporting the same chips and features. However, some markets are much more focused on the speeds and feeds than others. Case in point: Lenovo has been on a tear lately, launching ultra-high-end smartphones in the …

Ever since it debuted in 2015, High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) has promised to deliver huge amounts of RAM bandwidth at power consumption levels that traditional GDDR arrays can’t match. It’s mostly kept that promise, albeit at pricing that has kept it out of reach for most consumer GPUs, and limited …

The internet is full of wonder and the accumulated knowledge of humanity, but it’s also full of malicious software and scams. That’s why Windows users have always been warned not to launch shady executables. You’re not going to open virus.exe, but sometimes it’s not so clear. Windows will soon have …

Facebook is a social network, but it doesn’t make money by connecting you to your friends and family. It makes money by showing you ads, and advertisers pay more for highly targeted ads. You might think you’ve blocked Facebook from tracking you, but computer science professor Aleksandra Korolova from the …

Google announced today it’s now using mobile-first indexing for over half the web pages shown in its search results globally — a significant milestone in Google’s move to favor mobile sites over desktop sites in its search results. The plans for the project have been in the works for years. …