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Samsung has announced and demoed its upcoming Galaxy S9 for Mobile World Congress 2018 in Barcelona. While it’s not a huge leap forward from the Galaxy S8, it’s an evolutionary improvement that should satisfy anyone in the Androidverse looking for an upgrade this year. PCMag notes that the Galaxy S9 …

PDFs were never really meant to be edited. The format was originally based on the PostScript printer language and optimized for high-fidelity display across a variety of devices, hence the full name: Portable Document Format. It’s since been extended for filling in forms, electronic signatures, and other features, but it …

When AMD’s R5 2400G launched in mid-February, it quickly became clear that Intel had a formidable new competitor on the market. While Intel still leads on CPU performance, the gap is much smaller than it used to be, and the 2400G’s GPU blows Intel out of the water in gaming. …

Intel is under fire for failing to disclose Spectre and Meltdown to the US government after it heard about the attacks in June. A month ago, we reported that some governmental agencies like the NSA hadn’t been informed of the exploits. It now appears that no government agency was informed …

For 13 years, smartphones have been a massive success story. Year after year, we’ve seen companies rolling out new products at a variety of price points and market positions. From 2004 to Q3 2017, smartphone sales grew year-on-year, even through the Great Recession. Q4 2017 put at least a temporary …

Opera Max lives on after Samsung acquired the mobile browser to save it from oblivion. The browser was one of the first data-friendly mobile browsers and it later added privacy-focused settings, including safeguards against insecure WiFi connections and a VPN. The popular app clocked up more than 500,000 installs, but that …

At ISSCC last week (that’s the International Solid-State Circuits Conference), AMD spoke about the design considerations that led to its Epyc server processors and why the company is confident that its approach to server CPU development will yield significant dividends compared with Intel’s practices. While both companies compete in the …

Intel’s Coffee Lake may have launched last fall, but the company hasn’t introduced many SKUs to-date. The high-end is reasonably well-covered between the Core i7-8700K, i7-8700, Core i5-8600K, and Core i5-8400 (See on Amazon). Below the Core i5-8400, there’s a rather substantial performance gulf. The Core i3-8350K is an overpriced …

For the past year, AMD has been busy rolling out multiple waves of Ryzen hardware. From high-end consumer desktops, to 16-core enthusiast and workstation designs, to its new APUs for the budget-conscious enthusiast, AMD has been firing on all cylinders for the first time in, well, a very long time. …

When Microsoft announced it was working on a new version of Windows on ARM, the news generated a fair amount of skepticism. Microsoft’s previous effort in this arena, Windows RT, was legendary for high rates of return, limited capabilities, and generally weak performance. Windows RT looked just like Windows, but …