Technology

Sphero started out making products that were toys first and foremost, but its tiny personal robots have slowly become more education-oriented, and the new Bolt is the most bookish of them all. The Bolt is a transparent spherical robot with a raft of sensors and a programmable LED matrix display. …

Two years ago, Apple yanked the headphone jack off its mobile devices and called itself courageous. The Kool-Aid theory was that by getting rid of this ancient analog port, we’d all be free to pay for new devices that offered the same functionality over a different connector or to buy …

The age of 5G is upon us, even if it’s not coming to phones quite yet. Verizon has announced that it will begin offering home 5G internet service in a handful of cities starting next month. That’s the same network that will eventually service phones, but home internet customers will …

HQ Trivia is aiming to attract more players following a slight decline in downloads with a new, large prize. The company announced today it has bagged Target to sponsor to sponsor a special Emmy-themed game featuring its biggest-ever single winner prize of $100,000. The game will air on Monday, September 17 …

A last-minute leak has actually relatively confirmed the iPhone XS, XS Max, and XR names for Apple’s most recent phones, in addition to new a new Apple Watch size. The names, first identified by ATH, are discovered in a item sitemap XML file hosted on Apple.com, and are related to …

Apple’s annual iPhone launch event kicks off Wednesday, but Bloomberg thinks there’s considerably more than new iDevices coming down the pipe. While Apple is expected to lead with its trio of new phones, there’s considerably more coming down the pipe as well. The only question is how much of it …

Intel has announced the purchase of NetSpeed Systems, a San Jose-based company specializing in building SoCs and interconnect fabrics. NetSpeed appears to specialize in building network-on-chip (NoC) connections for handling communication between the various functional blocks on the chip. As SoCs have become more complex and integrated additional capabilities, the …

AMD has announced a new suite of four CPUs to fill out various aspects of its Ryzen family — and to hit some TDP targets that the company hasn’t previously delivered. The new processors are the 2700E, the 2600E, the 2500X, and the 2300X. Two of the chips target a …

Nvidia is preparing to launch new high-end GPUs, but the operative word may be “high-end.” In previous cycles, both AMD and Nvidia have typically led with a high-end card before debuting lower-end hardware within a matter of months. Exactly how quickly this rollout takes place varies from cycle to cycle …

VPN services work by passing traffic through an encrypted tunnel, which providers say can help preserve your privacy and security online. However, two of the most popular VPNs were, at least for a time, exposing users to a serious security flaw could let attackers run arbitrary code on an affected …