Technology

Microsoft has begun taking preorders for its new Surface Pro LTE, technically known as the Surface Pro With LTE Advanced. We’ve rounded up the launch reviews from multiple publications. Before we dive into the reviews themselves, let’s take a quick look at where things stand today. The 2017 Surface Pro …

Semiconductor foundries are pushing ahead with extreme ultraviolet lithography (EUV) integration, but there are still formidable barriers to deploying the technology at 5nm and below. There are several problems that EUV must solve (or continue solving) in order to serve as a replacement for existing 193nm lithography solutions. ASML is …

AMD’s mobile Ryzen APUs are as important to the company’s long term future as its desktop chips, if not more so. The clear majority and future of the PC market these days is in laptops, which account for far more unit share than desktops. Given this, we were glad to …

  Microsoft has announced that its Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) is good enough to pick up on malware created by FinFisher. FinFisher, also known as FinSpy, is a lawful piece of software created by the Germany-based company, FinFisher GmbH. It’s only sold to governments and is used by …

ELSA, an app whose name stands for “English Language Speech Assistant” (and not the popular Disney character!), has raised $3.2 million for its A.I.-assisted language learning platform that teaches people how to speak English. Unlike other courses that focus mainly on teaching grammar and vocabulary, ELSA uses artificial intelligence and …

Many Android users are still waiting on an update to Android 8.0 Oreo, but Google is nearing the first developer release for the next version of the OS. According to infamous leaker Evan Blass, Google is targeting the middle of this month for the Android P developer preview. We won’t …

Ever since Intel and AMD jointly unveiled that new Intel Kaby Lake CPUs would be paired with an on-package Radeon RX Vega-derived GPU, there’ve been questions about what kind of performance this solution would offer. Now, we know a bit more about it, and the figures are encouraging. Integrated graphics …

AMD’s Ryzen 7 family reignited the desktop performance wars last year after nearly seven years of small iterative improvements. The company’s Zen architecture proved more competitive than most expected, and AMD’s top-end desktop cores ruled the multi-threaded roost until Coffee Lake — and arguably past that, given how hard it …

Charter has appealed a recent loss in the New York Supreme Court. That ruling established that Charter could face a lawsuit from the state of New York. The original lawsuit was filed by Eric Schneiderman against Charter and its Time Warner Cable subsidiary, Spectrum, and alleged that Charter had been …

Modern phones have matured to the point that there’s often relatively little performance difference between high-end devices. Visual technologies, like display or camera quality, are another matter, particularly when you factor in subtleties of color accuracy and battery life. For years, Samsung and Apple have been duking it out for …