Technology

Google Lens made its debut at Google I/O a few years ago, eventually coming to Pixel phones before expanding to most Android devices. Lens is another of Google’s semi-magical implementations of machine learning technology, in this case used to identify objects in images. Now, it’s coming to Google image search …

New documents obtained via a Freedom of Information Act request by the Project on Government Oversight (POGO) have revealed that Amazon met with and pitched the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement department on adopting its Rekognition facial recognition technology. In a June 15 email, an Amazon sales representative thanked ICE …

OnePlus used to be a small niche player in the smartphone world. It’s still not the equal of Samsung or LG, but OnePlus could be on the verge of a breakthrough moment. According to OnePlus co-founder Carl Pei, the company will be among the first to launch a 5G smartphone …

Google has often professed a respect for universal standards and the rights of users, but that position is decidedly not reflected in the new Pixel Stand wireless charger and the Pixel 3. After taking a multi-year hiatus from wireless charging in its smartphones, the feature is back this year. However, …

AMD and Oracle jointly announced today that AMD’s Epyc servers are now available as Oracle cloud compute instances. It’s a significant win for AMD, which has been slowly growing its server market share since it launched its Zen-based Epyc CPU family back in 2017. Oracle is now the third major …

Online advertisers have good reason to be running scared these days. Last week, news broke that Facebook had massively inflated its video watching metrics for years by ignoring as invalid all videos that were watched for less than three seconds and reporting only metrics for video that was watched for …

Motorola has announced that it will begin selling repair kits for its own devices and has partnered with iFixit to do so. In doing so, it’s become the first smartphone manufacturer to openly support the right to repair. Modern electronics manufacturers are often fundamentally hostile to the idea that you …

There is ever-increasing concern about the volume of data that internet companies have about users, and Google is right at the top of that list. Its business model is largely based on knowing what links you’re likely to open, and that means collecting lots of data. You can see that …

Human brain cells have been discovered to carry electrical signals in a fashion that could substantially increase the power of private neurons. Comparing the speed of signals taking a trip down the branches of human nerve cells with comparable cells drawn from rats, scientists have discovered a distinction in signal …

Apple isn’t done with product events for 2018. Today the business issued media invites for an October 30th occasion in Brooklyn, New York City where it’s widely anticipated we’ll see brand-new iPad Pro tablets and possibly several updates to the Mac lineup. The occasion’s tagline is “there’s more in the …