Technology

Samsung reported excellent results in 2017, with strong growth in its foundry and display businesses. These sales outweighed dips elsewhere in the company’s overall product portfolio, and a decline in consumer electronics spending. The company’s total sales grew 1.19x year-on-year, an impressive result for the company’s still relatively young foundry …

Ransomware is some of the most devious and frustrating malware floating around the internet. These programs lock up your files with encryption and threaten to delete them unless you pay a cryptocurrency ransom. Victims are powerless to thwart the attack, so many just pay up. Now, it’s the scammers who …

Google is rolling out a few new features to its Google Flights search engine to help travelers tackle some of the more frustrating aspects of air travel – delays and the complexities of the cheaper, Basic Economy fares. With the regard to delays, Google Flights won’t just be pulling in …

Google’s Play Store offers developers a faster, more open experience than Apple’s version, which comes with lengthy reviews and seemingly random rejections. The Play Store has evolved over the years, and today is much more secure than it was back when we knew it as the Android Market. Google reports …

In the run-up to Apple’s iPhone X launch, it was clear that the company could end up pinched by its own product plans. On paper, the plan looked solid: Refresh the iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus at lower price points, before bringing in the iPhone X, with its $1,000 …

For the past four or five years, discussions around the so-called “right to repair” have followed a predictable cadence. iFixit or a thematically similar site will call for the passage of state or federal bill that would enshrine a consumer’s right to repair their own electronics. Said proposal is briefly …

AMD reported its fourth quarter and full year results for 2017 yesterday evening. The company’s financial results are easily the best its posted in five years and arguably some of the best results we’ve seen in a decade (this last needs a bit of unpacking, but we’ll get to that). …

Cryptographers and linguistic experts have been puzzling over the Voynich manuscript ever since its discovery over 100 years ago. This confounding 240-page codex was written centuries ago in an indecipherable gibberish language that has remained untranslated despite extensive study. Researchers from the University of Alberta now claim to have made …

A startup called Cake has an ambitious plan to take on incumbents like Chrome and Safari to build a better browser for mobile devices. The company announced this morning it has raised $5 million for those efforts from Peak Ventures, Pelion Ventures and Kickstart Seed Fund. Cake was founded in late …

Instagram today made a long overdue change to its product that social media managers have wanted for some time – it will allow businesses on Instagram to schedule their posts. Before, there were unofficial means to aid with this – like tools that would send out a push notification to …