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AMD hasn’t even launched its second-generation Threadripper family yet, but the company is hard at work on its 7nm follow-up to the Epyc server family. We don’t know much at all about these new CPUs, codenamed “Rome,” but during its most recent conference call, AMD did drop one surprising fact: …

The number of mobile payments users who tap to pay using a contactless payment solution provided by their mobile device’s maker will grow to 450 million people worldwide by 2020, according to a new forecast from Juniper Research. This includes mobile payment solutions like Apple Pay, Samsung Pay, Google Pay, …

Rumors of a foldable phone have circulated for years, but someone might finally, maybe release one in the next year. Samsung, long at the forefront of display technology, is reportedly aiming for a flexible Galaxy phone launch, but Huawei might try to beat it to market. If 2018 was the …

The United States has generally allowed ISPs to run roughshod over customers. From the ISP-sponsored legislation that made building municipal broadband networks illegal in many states to Ajit Pai and the GOP’s decision to dismantle net neutrality, companies like Spectrum, Comcast, and ATT have largely had the run of things …

Google is cracking down on the apps published to the Play Store. An updated version of the company’s Developer Policy, released this week, indicates the company will now ban a wider variety of apps including cryptocurrency miners, those selling firearms and accessories, those that aim to trick children into downloading …

AMD announced excellent second-quarter earnings for 2018 as the company’s overall position continues to strengthen. Overall revenue was $1.76B compared with $1.15B for the same period in 2017, up 1.53x year-on-year. Sales also improved by 7 percent compared with Q1 2018, and gross margin for the quarter was 37 percent, …

The last 10 years have seen a seesaw of emphasis between more pixels and bigger pixels in phone cameras. First, resolution gets pushed to the limits by using increasingly small pixels crammed onto the necessarily tiny sensors. Then there’s a backlash from those who value low-light performance and low noise …

Most of us out here in the real world have stopped using Flash, but government agencies seem to operate in a different layer of spacetime where things move excruciatingly slowly. US Senator Ron Wyden (a Democrat from Oregon) has asked several government agencies to get working on a plan to …

Last May, Google launched a new events feature designed to help web searchers more easily find things to do nearby, while also challenging Facebook’s dominance in the local events space. Today, Google is updating event search with personalized event suggestions, and well as a new design that puts more event …

New reports suggest that Apple has hammered Android’s market share over the past twelve months on the strength of iPhone X and iPhone 8 sales. Early sales of these devices in the back half of 2017 may have raised concerns that Apple could have bet wrong with its iPhone 8 …