Technology

  Black Friday wasn’t just a boon for e-commerce retailers, it helped the mobile app stores break new records, too. According to a new report from Sensor Tower, the combined consumer spending across the U.S. Apple App Store and Google Play on Black Friday 2018 reached $75.9 million — a record …

You would not expect software for your headphones to seriously impair your computer’s security, but that’s exactly what Sennheiser managed to do. The desktop application for its headsets, called HeadSetup and HeadSetup Pro, included a botched root certificate, allowing anyone aware of the flaw to impersonate websites without detection. Sennheiser has …

If you’d told me five years ago that Intel was about to stumble into arguably the worst manufacturing problems of its existence, I would have been surprised. Our 2012 story on why Intel leads (led) the world in semiconductor manufacturing now looks more like a historical retrospective than a confident …

  DJI is known for making drone aircraft, but that’s taught the company a few things about cameras. It’s released a few handheld cameras and related accessories, but the new Osmo Pocket is the smallest handheld stabilizer it’s ever offered. With 3-axis stabilization, you can swing the Osmo Pocket every …

Not everyone thinks the web needs saving. After all, it’s a bigger and more essential part of our lives than almost anyone could have predicted when Tim Berners-Lee first wrote a browser for what became the World Wide Web. But the original peer-to-peer, open-protocol, read-write architecture has been overshadowed in …

Samsung Electronics’ expert system (AI) capabilities are being recognized internationally in a competitive field with leading scientists all seeking to control. Samsung Research, the advanced R&D arm of Samsung Electronic devices’ gadget business, has won recent competitors, which will be important in eventually rolling out AI in more real-world circumstances …

Numerous of these apps let users participate in publishable research and preservation efforts. Amateur bird-watchers need to download eBird. The app, handled by the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology, not only lets you recognize and log bird sightings, but likewise makes it easy to share those findings with others– consisting of …

Intel has been grappling with a CPU shortage for months, due to production constraints associated with its difficult 10nm ramp as well as increased demand for its 14nm data center processors. The company announced during its last conference call that it would spend an additional $1B to increase 14nm production. …

Law enforcement has been stuck paying exorbitant prices to get confiscated phones unlocked by security firms, but now you too can be gouged for access to that encrypted data. DriveSavers has announced a new service to unlock your iPhone or Android device, and all it’ll cost you is $3,900. The …

It’s only been a few weeks since Amazon announced that it would offer AMD Epyc servers as an option for Amazon Web Services (AWS). Now the company is announcing a new type of hardware platform for its just-created A1 instances — the Amazon Graviton processor. The company writes: Today we …