Technology

At the dawn of cryptocurrency, mining seemed like a novel and useful way to distribute digital money. You could churn away with a laptop CPU and earn Bitcoin while supporting the blockchain that verified transactions. Today, Bitcoin requires a lot more power to crunch the numbers, and the proliferation of …

It’s an unfortunate fact that a large percentage of people have some sort of trouble with their vision. Even if you don’t at the moment, every human eventually has enough trouble focusing both near and far that they’ll need glasses for one or the other as they age. Our pupils …

  Unless you’ve spent a big chunk of your youth playing video games, or perhaps flying R/C planes, the two joysticks of a game-like controller aren’t the most intuitive way to fly a drone. I got an interesting demo of the Shift controller at CES in 2016 that looked promising, …

Amazon’s search for a second headquarters, far from Seattle, took a surprise twist over the weekend: That second HQ might actually be two headquarters, not one. One would most likely be in Crystal City section of Arlington, VA (main photo), just across the Potomac River from Washington. The other site …

4 Accent Color Choices The Third Scandal Sheet Ford GT Ford has actually just revealed a new edition of their supercar: the Ford GT Carbon Series. This new series was developed to be the lightest of all GTs through the loss of 40 pounds. This loss of weight comes from …

  Google has always struggled with the so-called fragmentation of the Android platform, but that hasn’t stopped it from becoming the most popular computing platform on the planet. Last year, Google unveiled a new Android framework called Project Treble that was supposed to make updates faster. Now that a new …

After years of slowly closing the gap between itself and Intel, Apple can fairly claim to have slashed the difference between its ARM CPUs and Intel’s x86 chips to ribbons — at least in one test. Geekbench 4 reports an iPad Pro with a single-core score of 5030 and a …

If you pay attention to phone launches, you may have noticed an unusual trend with the latest bumper crop from Apple, Samsung, and other OEMs. According to many reviewers, battery life for new devices has regressed overall. The exact figures vary depending on what kind of tests you run and …

Remember Vega Mobile? First announced at AMD’s CES Tech Day, the company promised that it would bring a new version of its desktop Vega chip to market, to compete in the mobile space. With an ultra-low z-height of 1.7mm (the same as Polaris) and a single HBM2 stack, the mobile chip …

  You certainly take measures to make sure no one breaks into your home, but someone breaking into your critical online accounts can be almost as bad. Google has added a new layer of security to account logins that seems at first like it could be a security problem of …