Technology

Conventional CMOS scaling has entered a state of terminal decline. That’s the bottom-line takeaway, when you cut through the marketing spiel from companies and look at the expected improvements offered at future nodes. 7nm will still offer a significant improvement over 16/14nm, 5nm is expected to deliver smaller (though still …

Nvidia has declared PhysX 3.4 is now open source, while the upcoming 4.0 version will be open sourced when it ships later this month. I am genuinely surprised to have written this. Back when Nvidia bought Ageia, it took the company’s idea for a PPU — a Physics Processing Unit …

There was a time many years ago when Microsoft owned the browser space thanks to a combination of shady dealings and limited choices. Those days are long gone, and now Microsoft’s revamped Edge browser is but a tiny sliver of the browser market. The situation is so dire that Redmond …

  YouTube on Monday announced a significant change to its mobile app — it will now autoplay videos by default when users are browsing the app’s home page, aka the “Home” tab. Fortunately, the videos will not autoplay with the sound enabled, the company says. Instead, the feature is meant …

Apple today announced its Best of 2018 selections – its annual, editorial list of what it considers the best content across its App Store and iTunes, along with its top charts of the most downloaded apps and games fo the year. As in other years, Apple selected a “best” app …

Samsung is the largest smartphone maker in the world, but it faces more pressure than ever from ascendant Chinese OEMs like Huawei and Oppo. After nine years of Galaxy smartphones, Samsung is reportedly planning to pull out all the stops with the upcoming Galaxy S10. While nothing is confirmed at …

Google’s inability to form a coherent messaging strategy is legendary at this point, and it doesn’t look like things are getting any better if a new rumor is accurate. According to a report from 9to5Google, Hangouts will shut down in 2020. Despite Google’s claims otherwise, its messaging setup seems as …

A new book by Brad Sams, Beneath A Surface, details the history and development of Microsoft’s Surface product portfolio, starting from the early days when a massive Surface RT writedown nearly killed the product line altogether to the current era. It also contains some intriguing hints about what might be …

Microsoft has won a $480M contract with the US military to provide its HoloLens technology as part of an augmented reality technology package that the Army intends to use for training as well as in combat missions. The contract calls for Microsoft to provide “Integrated Visual Augmentation System (IVAS) prototypes.” …

After years of working on its foldable display prototypes, Samsung is now stuck facing an ugly fact — the technology behind those screens may have already been sold to a Chinese competitor by one of Samsung’s own suppliers. That’s the claim made by South Korean prosecutors today in charges levied …