Technology

Consumers spent $196 million on apps, in-app purchases and subscriptions on Christmas Day 2017 across the App Store and Google Play, according to new data from Sensor Tower. The report, while excluding Android revenue in China, represents a 12.3 percent increase over last year’s spending of approximately $174 million. That …

Apple and Samsung may be looking at much more competition in 2018 if a new report from The Information is accurate. Expanding on past rumors, the new report claims Huawei is partnering with ATT to launch its Mate 10 flagship smartphone in the US. This device launched internationally several months …

Sony is about to have a new headache to ring in the new year. A team of developers made good on a promise to drop a new exploit for the PlayStation 4, and it’s a doozie. Specter and Team Fail0verflow have revealed a flaw in kernel v4.05 for the PS4, …

Intel’s PAO (Process-Architecture-Optimization) process hasn’t been as easy to follow as the old tick-tock system. Where tick-tock produced a steady cadence of die shrinks and new architectures, PAO is a bit more flexible. Intel’s new Goldmont Plus architecture is the basis for its recent Gemini Lake platform launch. Gemini Lake …

Instagram’s feed will now show users recommended posts – a change that earlier this month was spotted while in testing, and has since quietly gone live. The feature, described here in the company’s Help documentation, will suggest posts for you based on those that have been liked by other accounts …

Comparing the input latency of a modern PC to a system that’s 30-40 years old seems ridiculous on the face of it. Even if the computer on your desk or lap isn’t particularly new or very fast, it’s still clocked a thousand or more times faster than the cutting-edge technology …

Amazon’s claims that the Echo Dot was the retailer’s best-selling product all through this holiday season appear to be backed up by the rise of the Alexa app in the U.S. App Store. The companion app for Alexa-powered devices like the Echo, Echo Dot, Echo Show and Echo Spot, grabbed …

Apple devices accounted for 44 percent of smartphone and tablet activations over the holidays, with nearly a third of those coming from new devices including the iPhone 8, 8 Plus and X, according to new data from Flurry Analytics out this morning. However, the iPhone 7 and iPhone 6 actually …

Apple isn’t having a very good month. Before Christmas, the company acknowledged that it deliberately lowers the performance of older iPhones to keep them from over-drawing their batteries and powering down at bad times. Now, the company’s stock has dropped following reports that demand for its flagship iPhone X may …

Is your wrist the next great technological frontier? That’s what Google, Apple, and other firms were hoping, but market research firm eMarketer reports that growth in the wearable space is continuing to slow. It expects an 11.9% increase in wearable sales in the next year, possibly slowing to to single …