Technology

In a bombshell move over the weekend, IBM announced that it would acquire Red Hat in a deal worth $34B. Big Blue announced that it would offer $190 per share of Red Hat in a cash transaction that represents a substantial premium over the latter’s current valuation. Red Hat stock …

Reading all the gushing praise for Google’s new Night Sight low-light photography feature for Pixel phones, you’d be forgiven for thinking Google had just invented color film. In fact, night shooting modes aren’t new, and many of the underlying technologies go back years. But Google has done an amazing job …

Walmart’s warehouse club, Sam’s Club is preparing to open the doors at a new Dallas area store that will serve as a testbed for the latest in retail technology. Specifically, the retailer will test out new concepts like mobile checkout, an Amazon Go-like camera system for inventory management, electronic shelf …

When Intel launched the Core i9-9900K last week, some readers argued that evaluating the CPU at a $480 price was a mistake, because it had turned out to be both difficult to find at that price and difficult to find in-stock, period. We always give these types of comparisons at …

NAND prices have already been falling for the past few months, and according to a new research note, the drop could actually increase as we head into 2019. If that’s surprising, it’s because the decline was already expected to be substantial. According to DigiTimes, NAND prices — which have already …

In theory, 2018 has been a rocky year for Intel. The company has weathered the repeated announcement of security issues related to Spectre and Meltdown. It dismissed its previous CEO, Brian Krzanich. It’s had to announce the delay of its 10nm process and then fend off rumors that said process …

Your shiny new phone or laptop will not remain new forever, and the manufacturer may try to make you go through its authorized agents for repair and maintenance. That can be expensive, and sometimes not even possible after a company decides your device is too old. Now, you have another …

Most Android phones get updates, but they don’t get very many of them. This has been an issue even for very expensive and popular phones, which quickly end up with old security patches that can’t protect you from every online threat. Google is reportedly rolling out a new Android licensing …

Apple touts its iOS platform as more secure than Android, but we don’t actually know how secure it is. Android is open source, so everyone can follow the patching and disclosure of bugs. iOS is essentially a black box with an unknown number of flaws, some of which have been …

AMD reported its Q3 2018 earnings on October 24, and the results are good, if a touch mixed in places. Revenue for the quarter was $1.65B, up 4 percent year-on-year and down 6 percent quarter-on-quarter. That’s a little unusual for AMD, Q3 has been the company’s best quarter for revenue …