Technology

  The Nvidia RTX 3000 family isn’t going to be any easier to find as we head into Christmas, 2020. Any hope to the contrary was dashed during the company’s conference call for calendar Q3 2020. According to Colette Kress, executive vice president and CFO of Nvidia, continued incredibly strong …

  Chromebooks are so plentiful these days they might as well grow on trees. There are fewer Chromeboxes — small form factor desktop computers that run Chrome OS — but Asus has been keeping its line of Chromeboxes updated. It just announced a follow-up to the 2018 Chromebox 3, the …

  So you want to stream some video games from the cloud? Apple hasn’t made that very easy on its devices thanks to some heavy-handed App Store policies, but the open internet is coming to the rescue. Both Nvidia and Google have announced iOS support for their respective cloud gaming …

  We are moving slowly but surely into a new era of mobile technology with Samsung, Motorola, and Huawei all tying to pack flexible OLEDs into folding phones. It’ll probably take a few years for foldable phones to become mainstream, but what about stretching phones? Oppo has revealed a concept …

  The feud between Apple and big-name iOS developers like Epic Games continues to rage in the courts, but the iPhone maker has extended an olive branch to smaller devs. Going forward, Apple’s customary 30 percent cut of sales on the iOS platform will drop to just 15 percent for …

  The first reviews and head-to-head comparisons of Apple’s M1 are finally here. The new ARM core has been the subject of a great deal of speculation since Apple announced it would move away from Intel CPUs and towards its own designs. After some leaked individual tests, publications are finally …

  Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co, known more commonly as TSMC, has announced a major expansion in an unexpected place: the USA. TSMC says it will build a new semiconductor fab in Arizona. The project should get off the ground next year with funding from TSMC, the state of Arizona, and …

  Google announced two changes to its Google Storage and Google Photos policies that will impact how some users interact with these products. First, Google Photo storage will no longer be free after May 31, 2021. Beginning on June 1, all Google Photos that you upload will count against your …

  The Apple M1 launched earlier this week, and benchmark results for the new chip are already starting to trickle out. While these initial tests are preliminary, they still paint a very positive picture for Apple’s upcoming CPU. In Geekbench 5, an Apple M1 is capable of achieving a 1687 …

  Apple’s M1 unveil this week wasn’t just a triumph for the company. It signaled a profound power shift within the personal computer industry — one with significant consequences for companies like Dell, HP, and Lenovo should the present trend continue unchallenged. x86 CPUs have dominated PCs across laptops, servers, …