Technology

Back in 2016, Apple was caught bricking devices that had previously been repaired by third-party companies. The company initially attempted to claim it had performed this task for the good of users in the name of security before reversing course. Apple has long attempted to maintain that customers must use …

If you’ve ever purchased a game console or other piece of electronics gear, chances are you’ve seen a “Warranty Void if Removed” sticker stuck somewhere on the device. There’s typically a peel-away tape used to confirm whether a device has been opened. If it has, companies will often attempt to …

We’ve discussed Intel’s fixes for Meltdown and Spectre many times over the past few months. AMD’s overall exposure to these specific flaws is known to be lower, but the smaller CPU manufacturer has taken more time to deliver certain fixes than Intel has. Today, solutions for AMD CPUs are also …

Most malware attacks rely on fooling users into launching a corrupted executable file, and online criminals have come up with plenty of ways to do that. There’s a new piece of malware making the rounds online via hacked websites that uses sophisticated redirects and modified JavaScript to load a malicious …

Virtual reality can be a fun experience, and more phones than ever support VR capabilities. That makes mobile VR easy for people to start using. While VR is cool, the main issue is a lack of content. Google hopes to change that with its VR180 video format. It introduced VR180 …

  Windows has undergone some major cosmetic changes over the last decade, but Microsoft is committed to backward compatibility like no other software maker. In fact, the original Windows File Manager still works just fine on Windows 10 by way of some newly open sourced code. If you want to …

Ever since AMD and Intel announced they’d be releasing an Intel CPU married to an AMD GPU core, they’ve maintained the IP AMD contributed to the GPU in question was based on Vega, not Polaris. The chip is marketed as RX Vega and is baked into several Intel SKUs, including …

When Intel hired Raja Koduri last year, it was clear the company was serious about graphics. Koduri has spent much of his professional career in graphics for AMD and ATI; bringing him on-board was a signal that Intel intended to invest into GPUs more aggressively than it had done before. …

You don’t have to follow up-to-the-minute reports on Silicon Valley to be aware that 2018, thus far, has been anything but smooth for the tech industry as a whole. Tesla and Uber are grappling with fatal self-driving crashes, Facebook is finally facing long-delayed comeuppance for its willingness to throw even …

Most high profile ransomware attacks follow the same playbook. Malware is installed on a system and encrypts certain folders and files. To access the files again, hapless users have to pay a fee to the hackers and hope they receive an unlock code in return. It’s a mugging, updated for …