Technology

Over the last two years Luminar by Skylum (formerly MacPhun) has moved from being a boutique photo editor for Mac loyalists to a well-designed, cross-platform, non-subscription, alternative to Adobe Lightroom. Like Lightroom, it is fully non-destructive, so it doesn’t need to modify your original image, but it also doesn’t have …

Sony’s PlayStation Classic has not been reviewed particularly well. As we detailed in our roundup, the collective opinion of the community boils down to “bare-bones implementation with a so-so library.” There’s been plenty of speculation about why the system ended up shipping with such a weak selection of games, with …

Rumors about AMD’s upcoming 7nm Ryzen 3 family have been floating around for quite some time in various forms. Enthusiasts are closely interested to see what changes and improvements the company introduces with its shift to 7nm. The company disclosed some of its advances on 7nm as they concern its …

When GlobalFoundries canceled its 7nm ramp this year, it did so because it claimed it hadn’t found enough customers to justify the investment. The overall impact on AMD, GF’s major customer, was apparently negligible — plans were already in the works to bring Epyc and Ryzen up on 7nm. But …

  Most flagship Android phones run on the latest top-of-the-line Snapdragon chip from Qualcomm, but what will that mean in 2019? Qualcomm just unveiled the long-rumored Snapdragon 855. It’s an eight-core ARM system-on-a-chip (SoC) with faster CPU cores, a new GPU, onboard AI processing, and optional 5G. Qualcomm’s CPU story …

As the number of people telecommuting or otherwise making a living remotely has grown, many are looking at where to live based on factors like affordability as opposed to distance from a central office. We’ve even seen states offering incentives to people to move based on their ability to work …

Microsoft is supposedly working on a second dual-screen device that it wants to bring to market. No, not Andromeda — that’s the dual-screen smartphone-sized hardware platform. This device, codenamed Centaurus, runs Windows Core OS and reportedly bears some resemblance to Microsoft’s Courier project from 2010. Microsoft is pushing the idea …

European retailer Mindfactory.de has released an updated report on AMD and Intel CPU sales, month-by-month. This sort of information is obviously limited. We can only see what’s happening at Mindfactory, and that might be different from what’s going on another retailer. But with those caveats understood, there’s a lot of …

  Mobile intelligence and data firm App Annie is today releasing its 2019 predictions for the worldwide app economy, including its forecast around consumer spending, gaming, the subscription market and other highlights. Most notably, it expects the worldwide gross consumer spend in apps — meaning before the app stores take …

  Last week, Microsoft announced that its overhauled its Office iconography, with new designs intended to reflect all of the things people use Office for. Why this requires a new style of icons is somewhat beyond me, but then again, I’m still happily using Office 2010. Either way, Microsoft has …