Technology

AMD’s Navi has been of interest to AMD fans since it first popped up on roadmaps, with hints of a next-generation memory subsystem and a “scalability” option that might be similar to the modular GPU designs that Nvidia is supposedly considering for its own products. First, the hints. As Hot …

Earlier this year, we covered news that Chrome would begin allowing users to block audio on autoplaying video. With any luck, we’ll see other browsers rolling this feature out in short order. If video that autoplays on mouse-over is annoying, video that autoplays when you have the temerity to load …

When Mozilla released Firefox Quantum earlier this year, I installed it and gave some thought as to whether I’d allow Firefox “Studies” to take place. They seemed reasonable, but I ultimately decided not to. Now, I’m glad I did. According to multiple reports, Firefox chose to seed various users with …

Are you an early adopter? Okay, but are you a really early adopter who likes to test new, experimental things even if it means you’ll experience crashes and bugs? Then you may be interested to know that Instagram has launched Alpha testing programs on iOS and Android aimed at those …

Samsung is the top Android device maker by a comfortable margin, which makes it a natural rival to Apple. The companies are constantly trying to one-up each other with their latest flagship designs, and the most recent blow was struck by Apple with the iPhone X. Despite that high starting …

It’s been nearly two and a half years since Microsoft introduced Windows 10, and the operating system’s market share has grown steadily throughout that time period. Nevertheless, there are still some users who either don’t like Windows 10 or ran into bugs and problems affecting their systems. Here, we’ll walk …

AMD announced it has landed Baidu as a customer and partner. It’s a significant win for AMD; Baidu doesn’t really have a US presence, but it controls 76 percent of the PC search market in China and 82 percent of the mobile and tablet markets. Specifically, Baidu is opting to …

Intel announced its new Stratix 10MX FPGA today, marking the first time an FPGA has been available with HBM2 memory onboard. The Stratix 10 MX has up to 10x more memory bandwidth than competing solutions that rely on DDR4 (512GB/s of aggregate bandwidth in two HBM2 stacks). Like the now-confirmed …

Reddit today is giving its mobile apps a major upgrade – the first since their launch last year, when the company decided to take back control over the official Reddit experience on mobile – an experience that had long been available mainly through third-party clients. Today’s updated apps introduce a …

Not all of Google’s projects turn out to be successful. Products like Wave, the Nexus Q, and Buzz were all relegated to the dustbin of history, and another one is set to join them. Google has announced that its augmented reality Project Tango platform will be discontinued on March 1st, …