Technology

Samsung is finally making good on its promise to debut a foldable phone. Well, sort of. At the Samsung Developer Conference today, Samsung’s Justin Denison got on stage to announce the Infinity Flex display. This flexible OLED technology will launch in 2019 as part of a still unnamed phone. Denison …

Smartphones have all looked similar for the last decade, but we may be on the verge of another major shift. At the Android Developer Summit today, the company announced native platform support for a class of devices it calls “foldables.” As you can probably guess, that means devices with foldable …

Google announced the Pixel Slate in October alongside the new Pixel phones and the Home Hub, but the Slate didn’t have a launch date. Google only said it would come out later in the year, and we’re getting close. Pre-orders for Google’s latest Chrome OS device are live at several …

Tinder has never really shaken its reputation among consumers as a “hook up” app, instead of one designed for more serious dating. Now, it seems Tinder is planning to embrace its status as the default app for younger users who aren’t ready to settle down. According to Match Group CEO Mandy …

At its Next Horizon event today, AMD unveiled substantial new details about its 7nm server CPU, codenamed Rome. The new chip debuts at a significant time for AMD. Its first server CPU, Epyc, has won accolades and adoption, including a new announcement of support from Amazon. Epyc 2 is, in …

If you’re a fan of AMD’s GPUs, the past few years have been a bit rough. Polaris has offered competitive performance in the midrange consumer market, but AMD’s Vega fell short of overall expectations. In the wake of Vega’s launch, AMD announced that it would build a 7nm GPU based …

You’ll find Android running on phones, tablets, cars, and even appliances. Strangely, it’s rare to find Google’s ubiquitous operating system on cameras. There have been a handful of cameras with Android, but they were expensive and not as good at taking pictures as similarly priced equipment. Now, Chinese camera manufacturer …

There are reports that Apple has pulled back plans for a major iPhone XR capacity boost, with Foxconn and Pegatron planning to deploy fewer manufacturing lines for Apple’s cheapest premium phone. Apple is instead apparently requesting more iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Pluses, to the tune of 5 million additional …

Intel’s server roadmap and product families have been pretty calm in recent years. The company reorganized its server chips into the Xeon Scalable family and away from the old E7/E5/E3 designations in 2017, and it overhauled the Core X series, but it hasn’t made any dramatic changes to Xeon since …

Seagate plans to push new magnetic hard drive technologies to market in the next 5-7 years, culminating with magnetic drives capable of storing as much as 100TB of data. That would be a marked improvement from the present day — current top-end spinning drives hold 14TB, and capacities haven’t grown …