Technology

A few weeks ago, Lenovo’s vice president, Chang Cheng, teased images of a device unlike anything else on the market. The new Lenovo Z5 would, according to Cheng, be the company’s new flagship device. It would be based on “four technological breakthroughs” and “18 patented technologies,” and it would be …

Google is still months away from releasing Android P, but the developer preview program offers a taste of what the next version has to offer right now. After launching a second developer preview during the I/O conference in May, Google has just dropped the third preview build of Android P. …

You’ll finally be able to run Waze and other navigation apps in Apple CarPlay this fall with the arrival of iOS 12. Currently, iPhones used in cars with the CarPlay interface have been limited to the apps Apple deems best-suited for the car’s center stack display. In case of navigation, …

In earlier years, fitness gurus would market their programs for getting in shape on VHS tapes and, later, DVDs. These days, it’s an app business. At Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference this week in San Jose, the company brought in one of the fitness app industry’s superstars, Kayla Itsines, co-creator of the …

Designer Ken Wong’s app Florence isn’t exactly a game. Or a comic. It’s a little bit of both – a new experience in storytelling using a mobile device. The app – or game, if you prefer –  comes from the mind of Ken Wong, best known before Florence’s release as …

Apple didn’t announce new computers at WWDC this year, but it did talk a lot about software on both desktops and mobile. The company is preparing to push out a significant update to iOS 12 that will address performance issues and long-standing problems with iOS notifications. Apple is also jumping …

Today, in a major first for any ARM vendor, Qualcomm announced the Snapdragon 850, with a focus explicitly on PC performance rather than smartphone or tablet performance that one would typically expect. This focus sets the Snapdragon 850 apart from devices like the Snapdragon 835. While that SoC has been …

The Chinese government has opened a formal investigation into the pricing strategies of Micron, Samsung, and SK Hynix, after conducting significant investigations into the alleged price-fixing carried out by those firms for the past several years. This is apparently the culmination of at least several months of work, and doesn’t …

Artificial intelligence researchers have thus far attempted to make well-rounded algorithms that can be helpful to humanity. However, a team from MIT has undertaken a project to do the exact opposite. Researchers from the MIT Media Lab have trained an AI to be a psychopath by only exposing it to …

This week, Nvidia unveiled its new Jetson Xavier platform, a new computation board with significantly higher performance than the previous models from Team Green. Up until now, the company has offered the Jetson TK1 (2014), TX1 (2015) and Jetson TX2 (2017) as edge compute devices for AI workloads. The K1 …