Technology

Oppo is a massive smartphone maker in Europe, but its presence in Europe and North America has been extremely limited. That’s changing with the flashy new Oppo Find X. This phone (apparently named after a math problem) will be the first Oppo phone to launch internationally since the ill-fated N1. …

  Every time an iPhone or iPad owners buys something from the App Store, Apple gets a 30 percent cut. Having raked in an estimated $11 billion from that arrangement in 2017, the company is understandably committed to maintaining the status quo. However, an antitrust case against Apple that started …

A year ago today, AMD unveiled what’s arguably its most significant challenge to Intel across the markets where the two companies compete: Epyc. Consumer parts are great for volume and brand recognition, but the Epyc server CPU family is aimed squarely at one of the few PC markets that’s booming, …

Mobile app subscriptions are a big business, but consumers sometimes hesitate to sign up because pausing and cancelling existing subscriptions hasn’t been as easy as opting in. Google is now addressing those concerns with the official launch of its subscription center for Android users. The new feature centralizes all your …

  Filming slow-motion video requires capturing more than the standard 30 or 60 frames per second. You might not always have hardware around that can do that, but Nvidia has a workaround. It has developed a new AI algorithm that can take your regular video and build new frames out …

Ever since the original iPhone proved smartphones with full-body screens are attractive and interesting to consumers, a few companies have been working to demonstrate a device with at least two integrated displays that’s attractive, interesting, and desirable. Some of these products, like the magnificently weird ZTE Axon M, even came …

At Computex earlier this month, Intel surprise-launched a limited edition Core i7-8086K CPU. Now, AMD has struck back with a rather ingenious — and admittedly entirely trollish — maneuver. If you happen to be one of the handful of people who won a Core i7-8086K, AMD will upgrade you to …

Today’s professional-grade video editing tools are designed with TV studios and Hollywood in mind. The tools are infinitely capable but hard to master, as they’re stuffed full of arcane terminology and nearly endless features and windows. It can be a chore just to prepare a simple video clip for upload. …

Hewlett-Packard Enterprise is prepping the most powerful ARM-based supercomputer ever built for installation at Sandia National Laboratories later this year. The system, codenamed Astra, will be built around HPE’s Apollo 70, with 2,592 dual-socket nodes and a total of 145,152 cores. But unlike most supercomputers today, including virtually the entire …

Adobe today announced the launch of Project Rush, a new video editor that takes the core features of its pro tools like Premiere Pro, After Effects and Audition and combines them into a single, more accessible tool. Don’t get too excited yet, though, the new tool will only be available …