Technology

We’re all used to the notion of proving our identity in the physical world. We present driver’s licenses and passports as needed as a matter of course. The facts on the identity document, like our age, are considered verified because we trust our government to have checked them somehow. In …

Biometric features like fingerprint sensors and iris scanners have made it easier to securely unlock phones, but they may never be as secure as a good old-fashioned password. Researchers have repeatedly worked out methods to impersonate registered users of biometric devices, but now a team from New York University and …

This is an op-ed and represents the opinion of the author. Two days ago, the New York Times published a comprehensive story on the degree to which Facebook fought all attempts to investigate its role in spreading Russian hoaxes and lies, both as it pertained to the 2016 election and …

  There are plenty of weather apps to choose from on the App Store, but the newly released Weather Up app is doing something different. Instead of just offering the daily weather, it will now offer Event Forecasts — meaning forecasts that sync with your calendars so you can see …

You need only look at recent phone launches to see that screen notches are very in right now. Apple, Google, LG, Nokia, and many others have fully embraced the space saving and visually contentious screen notch. If one is good, then maybe two would be even better? That’s the approach …

SK Hynix announced on Thursday that it has successfully tested both conventional DDR5 RAM and the first registered DDR5 DIMMs as well. The new chips have a capacity of 16Gb (that’s per-IC, with typically 8-16 ICs per physical DIMM, for 8-16GB of total memory capacity) and are clocked at DDR5-5200, …

Two of the U.S.’s largest brick-and-mortar retailers, Walmart and Target, are launching new mobile checkout systems in their stores to accommodate the influx of shoppers expected during the 2018 holiday season. Walmart says it’s expanding its “Check Out With Me” service to every Supercenter by Black Friday, while Target’s recently …

In the ARM ecosystem, Apple has emerged as one of the only companies building its own high-performance custom CPUs. Other onetime rivals, like Qualcomm, have taken to licensing parts from ARM instead of building their own architectures. The field, however, isn’t empty — Samsung also has a custom CPU designed …

Google’s Project Fi mobile service sells people on its inexpensive pay-as-you-go data service and access to multiple networks. However, that setup also means its harder for Google to make any claims about the fate of your data as you roam from network to network. Google is doing the next best …

Google’s smartphones used to have some of the worst cameras in the Android ecosystem, but it started to catch up with the final Nexus phones in 2015. Then in 2016, Google suddenly jumped to the head of the pack with the computational photography features of the first-generation Pixels. Google has continued …