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It’s the end of an era. After seven years, Google is ending support for Android 4.0, also known as Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS). The launch of ICS was a pivotal moment for Android and has a lot to do with its current dominance. Anyone still using an Android device with …

Seagate has announced the successful completion of a 16TB HDD built using HAMR (Heat Assisted Magnetic Recording) in its own internal labs. The company has announced that its new HAMR drives work as expected in various scenarios, and that database and enterprise customers will need to make no changes when …

  Intel and AMD could be looking at some stiff competition in the processor game. Fresh off announcing its new Snapdragon 855 mobile chip, the company has announced the Snapdragon 8cx. It’s for laptops instead of smartphones and is by far the most powerful processor the company has ever made. …

In the wake of Intel’s 10nm delay(s), it makes sense to wonder what this means for the company’s 7nm node. We’ve seen reports that Intel has canceled its 10nm node altogether, with strong pushback from the company on those rumors. At the same time, it’s true that there’s typically a …

RISC-V hasn’t been a huge topic for us at ExtremeTech, but the fully open-source CPU instruction set architecture (ISA) has been building momentum in the industry over the past few years as more companies have signed on to build RISC V-compatible processors. While it’s not the first open-source ISA, RISC-V …

At this point, Facebook’s fundamentally bankrupt behavior isn’t a contested point — just an established fact. That viewpoint, cynical as it may sound, was fundamentally confirmed by the release of 250 pages worth of emails from the UK Parliament, which collectively demonstrate that yes, the company engages in the bad …

Netflix just broke new records on consumer spending in its mobile apps, according to new data app intelligence firm Sensor Tower has shared with TechCrunch. In November, Netflix pulled in an estimated $86.6 million in worldwide consumer spending across its iOS and Android apps combined — a figure that’s 77 …

  Google is by far the most popular search engine in most countries, but Russia is one of the rare exceptions. There, the home-grown Yandex platform beasts Google by a wide margin. The two companies have clashed over Google’s control of Android, and now Yandex is taking advantage of Russia’s …

Microsoft has wasted no time confirming the recent rumors: the Edge browser is dead. All hail the new Edge based on Google’s open-source Chromium code. The rendering engine Microsoft has worked for years to perfect is getting the boot, and the company will spend the next year building a new …

Google’s seeming inability to settle on a chat platform has been something of a running joke on the internet for years, and it’s not going away anytime soon. Barely two years after launching its Allo chat app, Google has announced that Allo will shut down in the coming months. This …