Technology

The issues with Apple’s butterfly keyboard mechanism are well understood at this point. A single spec of dust in the right place can completely kill one of your keys, and there’s no way to fix it other than replacing the top section of the computer. Apple rolled out a new …

Starting tomorrow, Google Chrome will begin warning users who visit unencrypted websites that their traffic is flowing to an insecure location. It’s a transition we’ve covered several times already this year, and while it might seem to be a minor shift, getting news out to folks so they aren’t freaked …

Apple Business Chat, Apple’s new platform for allowing companies and brands to communicate with customers over iMessage, is expanding. In addition to Dish becoming the first TV provider to support Business Chat, Apple says it has also added four other brands, Aramark, Four Seasons, Harry David, and American Express, in …

It’s one thing to run machine learning models in the cloud, where you have plenty of resources. On mobile devices, you’re dealing with very finite compute resources, so if you want to run your models directly on the devices, they have to be highly optimized. Add to that that Apple …

Last week, news broke that Apple’s most recent MacBook Pro refreshes with top-end Intel Core i7 and Core i9 microprocessors have major throttling problems. These issues are not unique to Apple — and we said as much as in our initial coverage — but Apple’s Core i9 implementation appears particularly …

Google has invested heavily in artificial intelligence to power products like Google Photos and Google Assistant. These applications are impressive in their own right, but they’re not exactly “fun.” Google has just rolled out a new AI experiment that is geared entirely toward fun. The new Mirror Move experiment can …

We’re coming up on three years since the launch of Windows 10, which was intended as Microsoft’s comeback after the abysmal performance of Windows 8 and 8.1. While Windows 10 does fix a lot of what was wrong with Windows 8, uptake isn’t as robust as the company originally hoped. …

AMD’s Zen 2 architecture isn’t expected in-market until 2019, and possibly not until the back half of the year (AMD has said nothing publicly about its launch plan alignment). That hasn’t stopped people from speculating about the new CPUs, and there’s a fresh round of rumors out today. Chiphell, a …

As SSDs become more popular and prices drop, hard drive manufacturers are adjusting their long-term manufacturing plans and preparing for a future in which fewer and fewer hard drives are built. For Western Digital, that means planning to shut down a factory it’s operated for decades. Western Digital plans to …

Got an odd screw, nut, bolt, washer or fastener you need to buy more of, but have no idea to how to find the right one? Amazon’s “Part Finder” can help. The company has rolled out a new feature on mobile that lets you point your camera at the item …