Technology

Tinder will launch a series of new features based on location in 2018, its parent company Match Group revealed during this week’s Q4 2017 earnings. The dating app maker has been fairly vague on what these new features will entail, having only described them previously as something that will blur …

Roughly 16 months ago, the New York City Police Department (NYPD) began issuing Windows Phone devices to its officers. The goal was to give officers the ability to track 911 calls and access databases of criminal activity, and let officers give their own phone numbers to individuals so they could …

AMD’s Ryzen was a huge success for the semiconductor company in 2017, winning new business, reinvigorating the consumer market, and pushing Intel to make the most aggressive realignment of its consumer product families we’d seen in a decade. From the addition of Hyper-Threading to low-end processors to huge price cuts …

Has your internet seemed miraculously faster and better lately? The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) would like you to think it has, according to its most recent broadband status report. According to the FCC, voting to repeal net neutrality last year has encouraged ISPs to fix all the problems with internet …

Sometimes words are hard, and that’s why some 22 million people have installed the Grammarly extension for Chrome. Grammarly promises to catch your typos and grammatical errors, but for a while, it was also exposing your personal documents to potential snooping by any website you visited. That the sort of …

Former Intel President Renée James has launched a new startup aimed squarely at the nascent ARM server market. James left Intel back in 2015, during a major reorganization, and her new company, Ampere, has been operating in stealth mode. What’s interesting is the design she’s planning to bring to market …

On Feb. 3, 1998, a group of people met to discuss the need for a term that would help explain the concept of free software to businesses and individuals who didn’t understand what “free software” was. The term “open source” was created by Christine Peterson, who saw it as a …

It’s easy to forget people still make calls with phones, since that’s not what most people buy them for. Now there are reports Apple’s iPhone X is falling down at that particular task, and that the problem is spreading. 9To5 Mac reports hundreds of users have reported an increase in problems, …

For the past two product cycles, Apple has dual-sourced the modem inside the iPhone from two companies: Intel and Qualcomm. The decision to do so followed an extensive period in which only one company, Qualcomm, provided the silicon (Qualcomm paid Apple to only use its own modems from 2011 to …

In the six years DxOMark has been testing phone cameras, it’s seen plenty of big improvements. In a new white paper, the company takes the time to detail how dramatically new technologies have improved phone image quality. Let’s take a closer look. Overall Scores Have Increased Dramatically Over the Years …