Technology

Every electronic device that communicates with other devices has an antenna, and the realities of antenna performance often influence the design of the hardware. For example, many of today’s phones have glass back panels because glass is better for antenna performance. What if antennas could go anyplace and be any …

Microsoft’s next-generation Surface Pro and Surface Laptop are both expected to be announced tomorrow, but the size of the update may disappoint those who were hoping for more than a minor refresh. Having been criticized roundly in 2017 for offering a minor update to the Surface Pro 4 with the …

Do you dream of CONFIG.SYS and find yourself doodling “DOS=HIGH,UMB” on scraps of paper during moments of boredom? If so, recent news from Microsoft will likely make your day. Microsoft is re-open-sourcing MS-DOS on GitHub. As implied, this isn’t the first time the OS has been released as an open-source …

Just around a week ago, lost item finder Tile announced its new CEO and added Comcast as an investor. But the company isn’t done making changes just yet. Today, Tile is launching new devices that tackle consumers’ most frequent complaints about its trackers – the lack of a user-replaceable battery. …

Ever since biometric authentication began rolling out across phones and laptops, security researchers and legal analysts have both warned that such security measures would not protect against federal searches. Until now, however, such issues had been largely theoretical. There have been a handful of cases in which iPhones or Android …

A shiny new smartphone can do all manner of cool things like snap high-quality photos, recognize your face, and run an almost uncountable number of apps. You would also expect it to do some basic things like charge when you plug it in. That seems to be a challenge for …

  Defaults are powerful. Psychological research has repeatedly demonstrated that most people don’t change defaults, opting instead to use systems and settings the way they are configured out-of-the-box. That’s why so many battles have been fought over questions like what the default browser in Windows should be, and it’s why …

Now that large hard drives, including the massive new 14TB models, are available to everyone, it makes sense to think about how they can be used to create your own personal offsite backup system without paying the monthly fees required by cloud storage providers. Since cloud storage can easily cost …

Intel has been having supply issues at 14nm related to the delayed ramp of its 10nm production and (the company claims) increased demand for its enterprise and data center products. Intel’s Bob Swan, current CFO and interim CEO, has released a statement in which he assigns blame for Intel’s production …

China’s regulatory site TENAA has disclosed the existence of a new version of the Chinese Oppo Find X. The Find X has been in the news before for its innovative approach to the camera notch first debuted by Apple with last year’s iPhone X. Instead of using a notch, Oppo …