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Palm was making smartphones before anyone cared about smartphones, but it didn’t survive into the modern era. Its short-lived resurgence with the Pre ended in failure when the firm was acquired and smothered by HP. The Palm name still carries some weight, and manufacturer TCL is planning to launch a …

Fortnite is the biggest mobile game release since Pokemon GO, but unlike Pokemon GO, you can’t download it from the Google Play Store. Epic Games is handling the distribution itself, so searches for Fortnite in the Play Store turn up a lot of junk that isn’t the game. Well, now …

When Intel announced it would delay 10nm production, it also announced a new family of 14nm chips that would serve as a stop-gap replacement. We now know more about the CPUs themselves, thanks to disclosures from HP, Asus, and Synnex, and the new chips aren’t necessarily the warmed-over parts you’d …

It will come as a surprise to absolutely no one that the Samsung Galaxy Note 9 is now official following the company’s Unpacked event. It’s an evolution of the Galaxy Note 8 but one with some notable upgrades. This is still mostly your standard Note phone, though. It’s big, pretty, …

Facebook is shutting down Friend List Feeds sometime today, according to a message posted in the Facebook app. The feature allowed users to scroll through only those posts from one of their designated friend lists — for example, family, work colleagues, neighbors, industry peers and so on. The end result …

All the flagship Android phones you hear about on an almost daily basis run the fastest mobile chips available, usually a Snapdragon 800-series system-on-a-chip (SoC). Midrange phones that aren’t pricey enough to justify those chips have lost out on some advanced features, but the latest design from Qualcomm closes the …

Just weeks after Intel’s product roadmaps purportedly leaked, we have an official update from the company itself. At a data center summit today, Intel gave fresh guidance on when it expects to have new silicon and products in-market. Now we have some idea how the company will adjust for delays …

Google is finally rolling Android Pie out to Pixel phones after months of testing. It’ll come to other phones eventually, but some will get the update sooner than others. When you do finally get the OTA notification, you might see a proclamation at the top that says Pie is “powered …

For the past few months, as stories have broken about the myriad ways that companies like Facebook have shared user data with third parties, a new set of questions has arisen about just how invasive these companies are. Various hardware manufacturers and software developers have examined the issue or even testified …

There are two ways to improve SSD storage density now that pretty much every firm is on board with 3D NAND: Stack more layers of NAND on top of each other, or store more data per NAND memory cell. Advances in the latter have been few and far between. Originally, …