Technology

  At an unusual education-focused event in Chicago, Apple unveiled a new iPad with a student discount, as well as plenty of features to draw regular consumers as well. The latest iPad still features a 9.7-inch Retina screen, but the base model now includes a higher-resolution touch sensor to support …

Huawei, which has been pushing the limits of what is possible with dual-camera smartphones with its P9 and P10 family, push things even further with its new triple-camera flagship the Mate P20 Pro. In addition to the monochrome and color sensor design found on earlier models, there is a dedicated …

Google may be on the verge of changing how it approaches the tablet market. After years of only allowing its hardware partners to put Chrome OS on devices with a laptop or desktop form factor, the first official Chrome OS tablet has appeared. The Acer Chromebook Tab 10 shares some …

The slow rate of battery improvement is responsible for many of the shortcomings in modern technology. Your smartphone might be much faster than it was a few years back, and your laptop can last most of a day on a charge, but think about how much better they could be …

Microsoft was one of the first companies to experiment with FPGAs in data centers; the company began testing FPGAs with its Project Catapult designs back in 2011. That work has continued through the present day, with successive generations of FPGAs deployed to improve search results and lower response time. Today, …

Google announced this morning its “mobile -first” indexing of the web is now starting to roll out, after a year and a half of testing and experimentation. Back in 2016, Google first detailed its plan to change the way its search index operates, explaining how its algorithms would eventually be …

The Samsung Galaxy S9 has been hailed as having the best smartphone display available today. The phone’s overall design and functionality is an evolutionary improvement over the S8, though its camera has been highly praised. One unwanted feature, however, is mucking things up for folks — the appearance of dead …

Laptops designed for gaming are more powerful than ever before thanks to newer GPU designs that work on either desktops or laptops. However, these machines are still hefty and expensive. If you need something in between integrated graphics and a GTX module, you might go looking for a machine with …

Amazon has been talking about delivering packages by drone for several years now, from an initial 2013 unveil to a public demonstration in 2017. As the company has worked to make package delivery by air a reality, it’s also been busy filing for patents on the process. The company has …

Google’s upcoming Chrome 66 will add a long-requested feature when it debuts: automatic autoplay muting. The next major Chrome release won’t play audio from a website unless certain specific conditions are met. The change should eliminate those lovely moments when a random tab decides to start shouting at you around …