Technology

Has your kid bugged you to let them download Sandbox Coloring? You’re probably not alone. The latest trend blowing up on the App Store is a new twist on the coloring book apps that have been popular for a couple of years. Now, instead of having users pick and choose …

DARPA has announced a $3.6 million grant to a University of Michigan team with the goal of building an “unhackable” processor. Software-based security has proven incapable of meeting this goal, and while hardware models like Intel’s IME or ARM’s TrustZone have had better luck overall, these systems can be affected …

Apple has always taken software optimization and user experience seriously on iOS, but it keeps technical details quiet. It’s a hassle even to find out at what frequency Apple’s custom CPU cores run. It looks like Apple’s commitment to delivering “the best experience to customers” has taken a rather ridiculous …

The humble hard drive doesn’t get much respect these days. Once SSDs started hitting the consumer market, it quickly became clear there was no way hard drive performance would compete in the long term. Hard drive capacities have continued to grow, thanks to new recording technologies and the use of …

Windows 10 is only free until December 31, but the broad success of Microsoft’s upgrade push suggests we’ll still see some people moving off of Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 as time passes. Whether you jump for the upgrade now or buy a copy later, we’ve got some tips and …

Micron is planning an aggressive ramp of GDDR6 technology across the entire GPU business. The introduction of GDDR6 has significant implications for the mainstream PC graphics business, where GDDR5 remains the dominant memory architecture. GDDR5 has had an exceptional run. First introduced in 2008, it still dominates the PC graphics …

Facial recognition is all the rage these days as a way to log into your devices. Apple went so far as ditching the fingerprint sensor on the iPhone X in favor of Face ID, but Microsoft came out big for facial recognition a few years ago with the launch of …

Pokémon GO became a cultural phenomenon in the summer of 2016 when it launched on Android and iOS devices. Fans of the series, both casual and devoted, roamed the world capturing Pokémon with the game’s augmented reality mode. However, that mode was pretty basic and not worth the battery drain …

It’s only been a few months since the Fall Creators Update rolled out, but a new Windows Insider build (17063) with a number of new features just hit the proverbial streets. First up is Timeline. This new feature makes Task View (Win-Tab) more effective by grouping previous applications or programs …

Apple today announced it’s amending the App Store guideline that banned apps created using templates and other app generation services. When the company revised its policies earlier this year, the move was meant to reduce the number of low-quality apps and spam. But the decision ended up impacting a much wider market …