Technology

  Flickr was, for a time, the premiere online photo sharing site for professionals and semi-professionals. Yahoo bought the site early on, slowly transforming it into a more consumer-oriented product. Now that Yahoo has been sold off in pieces, the new Flickr owner wants to take the site back to …

When it concerns security updates, Android is a genuine mess. Even after Google timely present security spots for its Android platform, a huge part of the Android environment stays exposed to hackers due to the fact that device makers do not provide patches routinely and on a timely basis to …

The Google Play Store is teeming with choices, both excellent and horrible. These are the very best Android apps for your phone or tablet. When we choose apps to include in our roundups, we’re after those that primarily excel in two areas: function and design. A functional app is either …

Batteries and Samsung have actually ended up being a long-running joke due to the Note 7 debacle. While the iPhone rate and kidney jokes get a growing number of relevant each year, the Note 7 explosion joke has become lame now. And it’s due to the fact that the brand …

We’ve been promised a foldable phone for years, and Samsung is finally promising one in the not-too-distant future. However, a company you’ve probably never heard of has beaten Samsung to the punch. Royole just announced a FlexPai, a 7.8-inch foldable tablet-phone hybrid. The company has shown off working units, but …

OnePlus has made a name for itself among Android enthusiasts by launching inexpensive phones with cutting-edge specs, but that’ll only get you so far. With the OnePlus 6T, the company is finally getting in bed with US carriers. The 6T goes on sale today at T-Mobile and online as an …

  Last month, the FCC issued an order that prevented local municipalities across the United States from levying $2B in fees and charges against the telcos working on 5G deployments. The stated rationale for this decision, according to the FCC’s Republican majority, was to “stimulate an additional $2.4B in infrastructure …

Helium. It’s not a gas you probably pay much attention to, unless you work in a handful of very specific industries, enjoy playing with insane overclocking rigs, or have a job filling party balloons. But helium is critical in the cryogenics industry, which means it’s used in hospital MRI scanners …

We’ve known for decades that thermally stressed hardware doesn’t perform optimally. This dates back to at least the Apple III, when the system’s own heat could result in chips coming loose from their sockets and Apple’s own tech guidance involved dropping the chassis to reseat the chips. In recent years, …

Walmart is giving augmented reality a shot. The retailer today announced the launch of a new AR scanning tool in its iPhone application which will help customers with product comparisons. However, unlike a typical barcode scanner meant only to compare prices on one item at a time, Walmart’s AR scanner …