Technology

Laptops make tradeoffs by definition, but one of the largest has always been in graphics. Physics simply doesn’t allow for a high-end desktop GPU in a svelte, laptop-friendly form factor. And the lighter and thinner you make the portable, the less room you’ve got for an aggressive, power-hogging GPU. The …

Ever since before Coffee Lake debuted, there have been rumors of an eight-core variant that would be paired with a new Z390 chipset and launch at some point after the six-core variant hit shelves. Since that point in time, there’s been additional data suggesting that the Z390 chipset is real, …

Amazon is no stranger to entering new markets — the company, which began as an online store for books, has expanded into just about every market segment and now offers capabilities like cloud compute server farms, smart speakers, and 3D engines. It’s also made a huge bet on AR and …

Target runs are about to get a lot easier. The retailer today is officially expanding its new curbside pickup service called Drive Up to the first locations outside of its home market of Minneapolis-St. Paul, where it had been in pilot testing. With Drive Up, customers can place orders using …

The United States has been sounding the alarm over the use of equipment from Chinese companies like Huawei and ZTE for several years now. The rationale behind these decisions hasn’t always been clear, but a new set of sanctions aimed at ZTE does have a public rationale behind it. Last …

Google announced Android Auto at Google I/O in 2014, but it took another year before you could actually get it in a car. Android Auto is now supported by various auto manufacturers and makers of third-party multimedia head units. The screens come in different shapes and sizes, and the hardware …

Razer launched its first ever smartphone late last year, but it has a surprising lack of RGB. Another thing it was missing at launch: updated software. The Razer Phone launched with Android 7.1 Nougat several months after Google released Oreo. It wasn’t alone in being behind the times, but it’s …

Sony’s phones have looked the same for the better part of a decade at this point, but the company announced a revamped design at Mobile World Congress with the Xperia XZ2 and XZ2 Compact. Now, a third member joins the XZ2 family — the Xperia XZ2 Premium. This phone has …

Over the last few years, television tech has taken genuine leaps and bounds. New technologies haven’t just given us higher resolutions, like 4K — we’ve seen the introduction of HDR and new capabilities like FreeSync (expected to arrive this year), while OLEDs and quantum dot LEDs both improve color reproduction …

If you’ve been using Yahoo or AOL to avoid Google’s email scanning practices — or if you just plain use those services because you prefer them — there’s news from Oath, the parent company of both, that you’ll want to be aware of. A recent tweak to the company’s privacy …