Technology

Just over a week ago, we covered news from Asia Nikkei Review suggesting that Apple might have significantly cut its orders for new iPhones, specifically the iPhone XR. At the time, I suggested taking the news with a grain of salt, noting that there were many reports of low iPhone …

Intel has launched its new line-up of Core X microprocessors at substantially higher clock speeds compared with the chips it launched a year ago. At the top of the stack, there’s the new Core i9-9980XE with a base clock of 3GHz and a boost clock of 4.4GHz (4.5GHz if Intel’s …

Microsoft has re-released the October 2018 update six weeks after pulling it for a file deletion bug that wiped the Documents directory of a small number of users. The delay was then further extended by the discovery of additional bugs that had also slipped past the company’s detection methods. As …

Intel has been working hard to gain acceptance of its depth-sensing RealSense camera for quite a few years now. It has demoed them in all sorts of devices, but most people only know about them if they have a laptop with one. With its new D435i model, Intel is trying …

Smart home devices powered by Google Assistant are going to be popular gifts this holiday season, and the company is rolling out a ton of new features to make them more capable. Google is making changes to broadcasts, smart display info cards, routines, and even the Google Clock app. The …

In the world of alternative memory technologies, commercialization and broad adoption are eternally 3-5 years away. This is less a dig at the various companies developing technologies based on non-standard DRAM or non-volatile storage architectures and more an acknowledgment of how difficult it is to establish a new standard in …

Starting late last year, Apple included a new custom security chip in its computers called the T2. Ostensibly, the T2 is a co-processor intended to keep your system secure by managing sensitive functions like encryption and secure boot. However, Apple also uses it to verify repairs made to systems. Right …

Following reports of its testing, Spotify today has launched its long-awaited Apple Watch app. The app allows users to control the playback of Spotify’s streaming service from their Watch’s screen, as well as connect to devices like their computer, Wi-Fi speaker and more through Spotify Connect, toggle on Shuffle, access …

There have been a number of rumors around Intel’s modem business lately and its long-term relationship with Apple. The company is moving up its own publicly announced 5G roadmap and plans after some of these stories broke over the past few weeks, emphasizing that its upcoming XMM 8160 5G modem …

Steve Jobs famously once said that people don’t read anymore, but it turns out younger people are, in fact, reading quite a lot – just in different ways than expected. Case in point: 70 million readers log in to online community Wattpad each month, where they spend over 22 billion …