Technology

Apple worked for years to make its laptops slimmer and lighter, and keyboards get in the way of that. In 2016, Apple debuted a new kind of “butterfly” keyboard switch that makes the typing surface thinner than ever, but owners have reported frequent problems with the keys becoming unresponsive. Apple …

OfferUp, the mobile marketplace for buying and selling locally, is expanding its sights beyond your neighborhood. Today, the company is announcing an expansion of its service that will now allow sellers to ship their items nationwide to interested buyers, potentially netting them a larger audience than if trying to sell …

LG is on the verge of unveiling the LG G7 ThinQ, but it’s already starting to run out of things to reveal. In typical LG fashion, the company has begun dropping juicy tidbits about its upcoming phone, including the nature of the screen and now the speaker. According to LG, …

Historically, covering changes to the mainstream memory market (loosely defined as SRAM for CPU caches, DRAM for volatile RAM, and a mixture of SSDs and HDDs for non-volatile storage) has been a bit of a letdown. It’s interesting, on the one hand, to see how various niche approaches have developed …

In this age of nearly unlimited image hacking available to photographers, photo contests have become a tricky business. Perhaps ironically, though, the internationally renowned Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition has for the second time had to disqualify a winning image because of a problem with the subject. In 2010, …

There are currently four nationwide mobile networks in the US, but that number is about to drop to three. After years of flirting, T-Mobile and Sprint have announced that they’re finally ready to tie the knot. The carriers have a plan to combine into a strong third-place competitor behind ATT …

Microsoft’s latest Windows 10 update was supposed to arrive earlier this month, before a blue screen of death problem forced the company to push off the launch. Redmond has been quiet about the arrival date until Friday, when it announced that the latest Windows 10 Update will debut Monday. Starting …

Last week, we covered two key developments regarding AMD and Intel. First, AMD chose to move its GPUs back to 7nm at TSMC, raising the question of what this might say about GlobalFoundries own 7nm ramp, particularly given that GF recently replaced its CEO for the fourth time in a decade …

Last year, Intel told investors and the press that it had begun early shipments on 10nm, though it refused to identify which parts this applied to, or when we would see volume shipments. Similarly, the company declared its 8th Generation Core family would comprise multiple chips across 14nm, 14nm+, 14nm++, …

When you need a PC benchmark, odds are you’ll end up using a Futuremark product like 3DMark. Futuremark has been the most well-known name in the benchmarking industry for more than 20 years, but that’s over. The benchmarks aren’t going away, but “Futuremark” is. Parent company UL has absorbed Futuremark, …