Technology

It’s been just over a year since AMD launched its new Ryzen microprocessor based on the Zen architecture. Zen’s impact can scarcely be overstated; the CPU market has changed more in the past 16 months than in the previous six years combined. Today, AMD is launching its second generation of …

Microsoft spends a lot of energy pushing people to use the Edge browser on Windows, sometimes in very annoying ways. However, the company seems to have come to terms with the fact that Chrome is far and away the most popular browser. Microsoft still contends its browser protections are more …

Walmart announced on Thursday it’s beginning to test new technology that arms store staff with mobile devices for checking out customers from the floor. The devices will first be put into use in Walmart’s “Lawn Garden Centers” in over 350 U.S. stores, where there’s the most need for a mobile …

Ebay is rolling out an app update designed to make it easier to list items for sale on its online marketplace. Instead of filling out detailed forms on your mobile phone’s small screen, you can now scan the barcode on the item in question or type a description, choose the …

Everyone’s interested in creating new worlds in virtual reality, with tools like Amazon Sumerian, but the real world still has a place. Google wants to take you on a tour of some of the world’s most important historical sites, and you don’t even have to stand up. Just head to …

Since its inception, Microsoft has focused on Windows in attempt to cram it into every conceivable form factor. That’s worked pretty well for computers, but not so much for phones. Now, Microsoft is trying its hand at the “Internet of Things,” or IoT. However, it’s giving up on making small, …

Chances are you mostly need a translator app on your phone while you are traveling. But that’s also when you are most likely to not have any connectivity. While most translation apps still work when they are offline, they can’t use the sophisticated — and computationally intense — machine learning …

Few substances have excited the computer industry as much as graphene. Few substances have proven as maddening and difficult to work with as graphene. The collision of these two facts is why, 14 years after Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov characterized and isolated the substance, we’re still waiting to see …

Microsoft has announced it will take advantage of a new security capability Intel has enabled in its integrated GPUs. Normally, antivirus scans run entirely on your CPU. Back in the old days, this process could bring a system to its knees. Single-threaded CPUs would lag badly if you tried to …

The Russian government is waging war on the private messaging app Telegram, and there is already some collateral damage. Telegram was banned in the country recently after failing to turn over its encryption keys as ordered by the courts. Russia is attempting to enforce the ban in any possible way, …