Technology

  Vivo doesn’t get a lot of attention outside of China, but it turned heads in early 2018 when it showed off the all-screen Apex prototype. That phone went on to become the Nex, and there’s already a follow-up. Like the original Nex, the new phone has almost no bezel …

Several large technology firms were put on the defensive earlier this year when Bloomberg published a blockbuster piece that claimed Chinese authorities had snuck spy chips into servers used by Amazon, Apple, and others. The companies cited in the report strenuously denied they had ever found spy chips in their …

For most of 2018, it’s felt as though all the energy in the CPU market was coming from AMD‘s side of the equation. While multiple companies have been affected by issues with Spectre and Meltdown, Intel took the brunt of those impacts. It’s also weathered a major 10nm delay (again) …

3D chip stacking has long held promise as a meaningful method of advancing silicon performance, but progress in the field has been slow, to say the least. For one thing, CPUs have a nasty tendency to overheat if you stack cores on top of them. Validation has also been a …

Americans are regularly checking a second screen while watching TV, according to a new report from Nielsen that examined the media consumption habits of U.S. adults in the second quarter of 2018. Today, 28 percent of adults say they “sometimes” use a digital device, like a phone or tablet, while …

  With fall upon us, say Colin and Justin, and summer’s warm breath a distant memory, it’s time to cozy up ahead of the mercury’s further descent. Go on, layer on those thick, textural sweaters, turn up the thermostat and enjoy Mother Nature at her autumnal finest.  You know you want …

Honor and Xiaomi have both pre-announced phones using new 48MP sensor designs. Huawei subsidiary Honor’s View 20 — officially launched this week — taps Sony’s IMX586 version, and Xiaomi is teasing a 48MP model with an unknown sensor, perhaps either Sony’s or Samsung’s similar chip. Whether phone makers use Sony or …

Australia is now the first Western nation to ban security, following a decision by its parliament to pass a bill forcing companies to hand over encrypted data to police upon demand. The government will be allowed to demand this without judicial review or oversight of any kind, beyond the requirement …

It can be easy to take for granted the way modern computers and mobile devices work. We can manage our social lives, watch video, work on documents, and more with a simple graphical interface. That was not the case in past decades, but the first hints of the future we …

Google had to face reality earlier this year when it announced that its Google+ social network would shut down for consumers. It said usage of G+ had fallen to basically zero, and a security review had found a nasty API bug. Now, Google has accelerated plans to close the site …