Technology

As features go, transparent devices have always struck me as a bit meh. Don’t get me wrong — I’ve seen some gorgeous case mods and interior lighting systems — but generally speaking, a transparent window into how a piece of equipment looks inside has never struck me as all that …

When AMD launched its Ryzen Mobile chips late last year, the company chose to focus on the 15W power envelope. To-date, all four of the company’s Ryzen Mobile parts target this space. This made good sense for a company with limited resources and a gradual ramp — the 15W space …

ARM is announcing a trio of new products today, collectively aimed at the modern smartphone, tablet, and laptop markets. This latter is something of a new focus for ARM, which historically hasn’t emphasized the Windows device market nearly as much as its tablet and smartphone businesses. That may be changing …

Google’s Pixel family of devices are generally regarded as solid phones, especially if you care about being on the latest and greatest version of Android. Despite this, the devices have never sold particularly well. Google, however, isn’t giving up on building its own version of an iPhone (or Samsung Galaxy) …

The last year has been rough for PC gamers, as graphics card prices ballooned to an absolutely obscene level, driven by cryptocurrency avarice. So many people were buying up GPUs to mine virtual currency that prices nearly doubled for high-end cards. The prices have started coming back down, but Asus …

Every gamer has been there: you’re a few hours into an intense session of annihilating noobs, and your headset starts chafing and making your ears sweaty. Lame, but HP has a solution. The new HP Mindframe PC gaming headset has active cooling technology to keep your skull frosty while you frag. …

Scout.fm wants to change the way people listen to podcasts. Instead of scouring through the over 500,000 shows in your current podcast app, this startup’s new curated podcast service will just ask you a few questions to find out what you like, then create a podcast station customized to you. …

Ever since Intel announced its 3D Xpoint memory (branded as Optane), the company has claimed that the new class of memory would represent a fundamental leap forward for the entire industry. Proof of these claims has been relatively slow to appear — it’s difficult to replace existing memory technologies, and …

Google launched its Project Fi virtual cell service in 2015, and at first it only supported Nexus phones. Later, Google rolled out the Pixel family of devices, and they too were available through Fi. However, the selection of Fi enabled phones hasn’t expanded much since then. There was just a …

We’ve discussed AMD’s 7nm plans several times this year, including the company’s decision to source its 7nm silicon for Vega’s machine learning iteration from TSMC. As Extreme Ultraviolet Lithography (EUV) ramps up and begins to enter production, a number of foundries including TSMC, Samsung, GlobalFoundries, and Intel are pursuing their …