Technology

Last week, news broke that AMD had won itself a new console design for the mainland China market by partnering with ZhongShan Subor. Now, fresh details have surfaced on that system, its market potential, and how it’ll be sold within China. There’s no news yet of an export option or …

A lot of humans think they’re so good at video games that they make the point of describing themselves as “gamers.” Well, the AI platform developed by OpenAI would like to have a word, humans. After demonstrating its prowess in Dota 2 1v1 games, the newly enhanced “OpenAI Five” has …

Solid-state drives (SSDs) are much faster than spinning hard drives, but many of us still keep a few mechanical hard drives around for bulk storage. While you can get SSDs with a terabyte or more space, they’re extremely expensive. Meanwhile, spinning drives are creeping up past 12 terabytes. A new …

Niche technologies like MRAM (magnetoresistive random access memory) have lived on the fringes of the mainstream memory business for decades. They tend to offer fringe benefits that make them attractive for certain, specific applications but are typically stuck with baggage that prevents them from addressing a wider space. A new …

Google announced Android Go in 2017, but we didn’t get our first look at finished devices until 2018. Those first Android Go phones were not great. They were sluggish despite the stripped down software, and the price was still too high. Now, Asus has launched its first Go phone called …

Google has been testing Android P since early this year, and it just released the final developer preview a few weeks ago. Now, the final build of Android 9 is out, and it’s called Pie. Android Pie is currently rolling out to Pixel devices, plus the Essential Phone. It brings …

Intel has been in the news a great deal of late, but the stories themselves haven’t given us much opportunity to talk about what’s happening at the company in a more cohesive way. In many ways, it’s a company at a crossroads, grappling with manufacturing issues at a difficult moment, …

TSMC is bringing its factories back online after a virus crippled its production and slowed wafer processing at the company’s foundries. The company has released a statement on the outbreak, which began on August 3 and was 80 percent contained as of August 5. The foundry expected to be back …

In a massive surprise announcement at the Star Trek Convention in Las Vegas, Patrick Stewart announced what many fans of the franchise have wanted for over 15 years — he’s returning to the role of Jean-Luc Picard, sometime Captain of the U.S.S. Enterprise from Star Trek: The Next Generation. Unfortunately, like …

Most of the data around web browser market share puts Google Chrome or Safari at the top – with their percentage of the market varying by platform and region. But new research from analytics provider Mixpanel finds that many sources are overlooking a major contributor of mobile web browser events …