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Back in June, we rounded up the history of Intel’s 8086 architecture, both before and after the industry-changing Pentium Pro. For this retrospective, we’ve decided to revisit some of the worst CPUs ever built, from multiple vendors. To make it on to this list, a CPU needed to be fundamentally …

For the last few months, there have been rumors about Intel’s upcoming 9th Generation family and its upcoming changes to Intel’s product line. We’ve known for a few months that Intel was prepping a new high-end desktop chipset, the X390, and recent leaks have pointed to a new Core i9, as …

It’s common practice for companies to offer security researchers and “white hat” hackers monetary compensation for finding bugs in their products. So-called “bug bounties” allow the company to patch its products before the flaw becomes a target of nefarious hackers. Google, Apple, and many other companies use such programs. Now, …

Back in February, we called out Facebook’s “free” VPN service, Onavo Protect, for literally being the opposite of a VPN. While it claims to cloak your traffic from prying eyes elsewhere, Onavo’s terms of service are straightforward about the fact that the company gathers data on everything you do and …

Struggling against competition from Chinese smartphones, Samsung Electronics posted a lackluster second-quarter earnings report with its slowest profit growth in more than a year. On the bright side, the Korean tech giant said its semiconductor business is doing well. Operating profit rose 5.7% year-over-year to 14.9 trillion won (about $13.3 …

As we move into the second half of the year, Google’s 2018 Pixel phones are getting increasingly leaky. After some screen protectors and blurry photos of the black 3 XL, we now have an even clearer look at a white Pixel 3 XL. The new leak confirms Google’s total embrace …

Last week, we covered rumors that the upcoming Intel Core i7-9700K won’t use Hyper-Threading and will instead switch to offering eight full cores without HT, with a new Core i9-9900K dropping in to replace the Core i7 at the very top of Intel’s mainstream desktop market. Now, leaked results from …

A dark theme option for YouTube users on Android is in the early stages of rolling out to end users, Google confirmed to TechCrunch, following a number of reports and sightings of the dark mode showing up for users in the app’s settings. The feature has taken a bit longer …

Fabric, a personal journaling app that emerged from Y Combinator’s 2016 batch of startups, is relaunching itself as a Facebook alternative. The app is giving itself a makeover in the wake of Facebook’s closure of the Moves location tracker, by offering its own tool to record your activities, photos, memories …

When Intel announced that it was delaying its 10nm ramp earlier this year, it was a major miss for the company. Intel has led the industry on process node transitions for decades. Even today, Intel’s 14nm node is believed to be most similar to the 10nm nodes in production at …