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There’s a loose structure for every TV story. Company X designs a TV, we talk about it, and we typically call out whatever the meaningful improvement is in the headline or the first paragraph. Higher resolutions? Quantum dots? OLED panel? Line ’em up, knock’ em down. No big deal. Except, …

  Perhaps we’ve grown too accustomed to AI hype stories of late, as last week’s unveiling of IBM’s Project Debater barely caused a ripple in news rooms across the United States. It certainly turned few heads here at ExtremeTech. Could this be how the Anthropocene age ends — not with …

Rumors that Microsoft is working on a dual-screen device, codenamed Andromeda, have popped up online for years, along with various leaked reports, OS references, and patent grants. Now, according to yet another leak, we know it’s also supposed to be a pocket-sized device, presumably of a size comparable to a …

In June, after months of increasing customer complaints and vocal unhappiness, Apple kicked off a program to replace the keyboards of customers who had stuck or non-responsive keys. There was a sharp increase in the number and frequency of these complaints after Apple switched to a new keyboard design in …

Struggling smartphone maker HTC continues to struggle. After offloading 2,000 engineers to Google as part of a $1.1 billion deal with the search giant, HTC is now laying off 1,500 staff, or nearly one-quarter of its total headcount, to cut more costs. That’s according to a report from Reuters which …

Ahead of the 10th anniversary of the iOS App Store on July 11th, App Annie has today released a retrospective of the top iOS apps of all time, along with key milestones in App Store history. Its report tallies up the top apps of all time by both downloads and …

Fujitsu doesn’t have a reputation as a major microprocessor developer the way AMD, Intel, or ARM do, but the company’s supercomputer and HPC work has resulted in multiple generations of high-performance systems, historically built on the SPARC architecture. Now the company is working on the successor to the K supercomputer …

For years, Facebook users and journalists have noticed that the service has an unsettling habit of serving up advertisements related to topics they’d often been discussing in their personal lives or had no previous habit of Googling. The question of whether Facebook listens to conversations going on around us has …

While none of us had National Camera Day circled on our calendar as a big thing, it’s a good opportunity to take stock of what cameras we use and why. So we polled the ExtremeTech staff to offer you this roundup of how each of us currently approaches our photography …

OnePlus has managed to build itself a nice little niche in the budget-flagship part of the market with phones like the new OnePlus 6. However, all its phones have been sold direct to consumers as unlocked devices. Now, CEO and co-founder Pete Lau says the Chinese company is looking into …