Technology

  If you’ve been secretly hoping that the 16:9 display standard would die a terrible death for 15 years or so, we have good news. While it remains the most common aspect ratio by far, there are reasons to think the laptop industry might be willing to consider other ratios …

  Curtsy, a clothing resale app and competitor to recently IPO’d Poshmark, announced today it has raised $11 million in Series A funding for its startup focused on the Gen Z market. The app, which evolved out of an earlier effort for renting dresses, now allows women to list their …

  Intel has announced it will discontinue all of its Optane drives in the consumer space, even the top-end enthusiast-oriented products. This isn’t entirely surprising given how the storage market has performed these past few years, but we’re hoping it’s a tactical retreat, not a complete pullback. According to new …

  We’ve been tracking the rise of RISC-V since the ISA debuted nearly a decade ago. While the highest-performing RISC-V CPUs are still far behind their x86 or ARM equivalents, the absolute level of performance you can get from a RISC-V core is increasing rapidly. Even better, especially for those …

  Samsung’s annual Unpacked event is taking place a bit earlier than usual this year, but the company’s new flagship Galaxy S phones are official all the same. As expected, there are three devices in the S21 family. All three devices have the latest Snapdragon 888 ARM chip, lower price …

  AMD’s CEO Lisa Su delivered the virtual CES 2021 keynote this year. The company made several announcements during the event, including the launch of its Ryzen 5000 mobile processors and a preview of what we can expect when third-generation Epyc, codenamed Milan, debuts later this year. The Ryzen 5000 …

  One of the biggest questions facing Intel as we move into 2021 is the degree to which the company will rely on third-party foundries for its leading-edge products. Over the past year or so, Intel has announced that it would tap foundry partners for a wider range of products, …

  Qualcomm has announced that it will acquire Nuvia, one of several ARM-based startups we’ve had our eye on for some time. Qualcomm’s purchase of Nuvia caps a several-year saga in which the company has been both all-in on its custom CPU designs and conclusively out of that market. Back …

  The ongoing semiconductor shortage isn’t just hitting big-name tech companies like AMD, Intel, and Nvidia. According to multiple automotive manufacturers, the general manufacturing problems hitting the industry are now meaningfully slowing vehicle production. “This is absolutely an industry issue,” Toyota spokesman Scott Vazin told the AP. “We are evaluating …

It’s CES 2021, and although we’re not live from Las Vegas, there’s plenty that companies want to share with us in digital form. Take Panasonic’s new wireless phone charger for the car, which forgoes in-place charging coils for mobile ones. To make clear what I mean by that — this …