Technology

Behind only AI, Blockchain is the second-most-hyped developer technology. There are a few good reasons to use it in a project, but plenty of bad ones too. Whether blockchain technology is right for your application is ultimately up to you, but we’ll take you through some of the basics on …

AUSTIN — At SXSW 2018, artificial intelligence (AI) was everywhere, even in the sessions that were not specifically about the subject. AI has captured the attention of people well outside the technology space, and the implications of the technology are far-reaching, changing industries, eliminating many human jobs, and changing the …

Facebook’s Instant Games are now open to all developers, Facebook announced this week in advance of the Game Developers Conference. First launched in 2016, the platform lets developers build mobile-friendly games using HTML5 that work on both Facebook and Messenger, instead of requiring users to download native apps from Apple …

Everyone’s favorite micro-computer is getting an update today. The Raspberry Pi Foundation chose Pi Day to unveil the latest upgrade to the hugely popular single-board computer, the new Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+. This model includes several useful improvements over the old Model B, but it keeps the same $35 …

  Verizon has reached an agreement with the Communications Workers of America and the New York State Public Service Commission to begin repairing infrastructure and restoring service across New York State. The agreement requires Verizon to extend broadband service to tens of thousands of New York State households and to …

Hall One at Mobile World Congress — a single space more massive than most conference centers in major cities — contained only a few displays. Although a quarter of the room housed small phone and mobile manufacturers, Huawei controlled the rest, creating a walled-off compound patrolled by women in folk …

For the past few months, there’s been a will-they-won’t-they dance going on between Qualcomm and Broadcom. To be slightly more accurate, there’s been a courtship of Warner Bros. proportions between the two firms, if the part of Qualcomm were played by Penelope Pussycat and the part of Broadcom by Pepé …

If you’ve wanted to buy a consumer GPU these past few months, you’ve had nothing but tough choices to make. Current high-end cards from AMD and Nvidia are badly overpriced thanks to ongoing pressure from the cryptocurrency market. It’s a complex situation with a lot of moving parts, but the …

In the wake of Meltdown and Spectre, AMD has come out relatively clean compared with Intel. While it remains exposed to Spectre (Variant 1 and Variant 2), it dodged Meltdown altogether. But a new security firm is claiming AMD has no fewer than 13 critical vulnerabilities in its Ryzen processor …

Earlier today, we covered news that a previously unknown security research firm, CTS-Labs, has accused AMD of 13 serious security flaws within its products. If these security flaws exist, it’s critically important AMD deal with them immediately. Nothing about their provenance or the process by which they were communicated to …