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Samsung has finally shown off its first foldable phone, but only for a few seconds. At the tail end of the Samsung Developer Conference, the company talked up its display innovation and demonstrated the first foldable phone, which it will sell in 2019. The presenter folded the phone twice and …

Microsoft’s decision to pull the Windows 10 1809 update in October after a serious file-deletion bug made it through the QA process and into shipping software was undoubtedly the right one, given that the company had distributed a flaw that wiped out hundreds of GB of data on consumer systems …

When Intel launched the Core i9-9900K, it established a new best-in-class performance record with a price tag to match it. One of the questions raised in the wake of the launch, however, was why Intel was calling the Core i9-9900K a 95W TDP CPU when it used far more power …

Windows 10 comes with a voice assistant called Cortana, and newer builds of the OS really try to push you to use it. Most people don’t, because Cortana isn’t very capable. Now, you can get a much more powerful voice assistant on your PC with the launch of an official …

When Intel launched the Core i9-9900K, we noted that while the CPU was easily the best-performing (and best-priced, in terms of price-per-core) Intel chip we’d ever tested, its price/performance ratio didn’t hold up very well compared to AMD’s eight-core Ryzen 7 2700X. When we checked prices back on October 26, …

Google focuses more on the interface and user experience of Android more than it ever has in the past. Android Pie is more thoughtfully designed than past versions of the platform, and Google’s interface design is coming together on app and service at a time. However, it’s coming together with …

An unusual Windows bug has popped up across the Web and its causing consternation among users. People woke up on Thursday to a message that their Windows 10 Pro installation was invalid and had been downgraded to Windows 10 Home instead. I haven’t experienced this issue personally (I have a …

At AMD’s New Horizons event this week, the company made a major announcement about the organization and structure of its upcoming Epyc CPUs. Going forward, Epyc will use a single die for I/O and logic, with its CPU cores and caches organized into “chiplets.” While AMD has not revealed every …

Life for PC manufacturers and channel customers (aka, those who build their own hardware) is going to get uglier in the next few months, in ways that could harm overall sales in the entire semiconductor industry. The ongoing trade war between the US and China has already resulted in 10 …

It’s a brave new world today: you can purchase a Facebook-powered smart display that lives in your home with a camera and always-on microphone. The Facebook Portal and Portal Plus are not the first smart displays with that sort of functionality, but this is Facebook. The remarkable thing about all …