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Samsung’s new Galaxy S9 may not quite live up to the iPhone X when it comes to Samsung’s implementation of a Face ID-style system or its odd take on AR emoji. But that’s not going to matter much to Samsung device owners — not only because the S9 is a …

Usually, finding malware in the Google Play Store would be a bad thing. Finding several hundred apps with thousands of downloads would be substantially worse, but in this case, it’s no big deal. The newly discovered malware apps don’t actually contain Android malware — they have Windows malware. Oops. Security …

Add Microsoft to the list of companies declaring they’re all in for AI. At its Developer Day we even heard that they were going to be an AI-first platform, although I’m not quite sure what that is supposed to mean. However, there were plenty of announcements to put some meat …

Microsoft has a history of trying to push dumbed down versions of Windows as a budget option. Remember Vista Home Basic and Windows RT? Microsoft would like to forget them, but it still announced Windows 10 S last year with a number of restrictions that made it far less useful …

Every smartphone maker is waging war on bezels, but there’s a problem: You still need space for a front-facing camera and sensors. Most OEMs have left the sensors alone and slimmed down the bezel around them. However, Apple has adopted a distinctive solution on the iPhone X known as the …

We all expected Google to launch the Android P developer preview around the middle of the month, but the latest version of Android dropped a little earlier than that. Google has announced Android P, which won’t get a real name or version number until later. Still, we’ve got details on …

Microsoft is still pushing out new Windows Insider builds ahead of the Spring Creators Update (aka Redstone 4) currently expected in April of 2018. Without much time left on the board, most major changes and updates are expected to be baked-in already. MS has made a small change to its …

It’s not unusual for companies in America to be caught between what they view as being in the best interest of their customers and being required to comply with various federal statues. In the immediate aftermath of Edward Snowden’s FBI leaks, we discovered that a number of companies had silently …

Just like in the last two years, Google is using the beginning of March to launch the first developer preview of the next version of Android. Android P, as it’s currently called, is still very much a work in progress and Google isn’t releasing it into its public Android beta …

For the past few decades, Intel has followed the same rough update pattern. First, it launches a new CPU and chipset. At some later date, it launches another new CPU and chipset. Cross-compatibility between the two is typically limited. New motherboards may be backwards-compatible with old CPUs, but new CPUs …