Technology

I’ve demoed a lot of smartphone-based, augmented reality (AR) headsets, and while they’ve always seemed to have potential, nothing about them was very compelling. Lenovo and Disney are working to change that this holiday season with a well-thought-out game based on Star Wars, called Jedi Challenges. There are quite a …

A few weeks back, we covered the launch of Firefox Quantum (Firefox 57). On paper, it looked pretty good — faster start times, faster UI, better multi-threading, claimed performance improvements even against Chrome. But in all honesty, I was skeptical. I’ve used Firefox for well over a decade, but it’s …

Update (11/24/2017): A new report states that far from having just learned about the breach, Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi has known about it since mid-September. Uber, it seems, has no intention of ceasing the consumer-hostile, illegal activities that have typified its culture since its inception. The company has already been hit by …

A source acquainted with the matter said the cell tower addresses were being sent out to Google after a modification in early 2017 to the Firebase Cloud Messaging service, which is owned by Google and runs on Android phones by default.Even devices that had been reset to factory default settings …

gamers won’t discover it hindering their game playing.There are, naturally, downsides to such a spending plan mouse, despite the fact that I believe the Cobra feels far better than you ‘d anticipate for its cost. The wheel has a soft scrolling feel that does not use much accuracy. There’s no …

Science LED-technology boosts light contamination throughout the night sky LED lights are saving a great deal of energy. However this type of light includes more blue and cold colors. This suggests that the sky above our cities is getting brighter and brighter – a phenomenon called light contamination. Unusual viewpoint: …

Intel has acknowledged and patched a new suite of security problems affecting its Intel Management Engine. This subsystem controls many low-level capabilities of the SoC, and can be used for features like remote access and Intel’s Trusted Execution Engine. The company has released a list of 10 vulnerabilities across multiple …

Uber has spent the past year mired in controversy on virtually every front, from its attempts to evade regulators to lying about driver earnings, to its alleged theft of trade secrets from Google’s self-driving car research division, Waymo. Now, on top of these charges, there’s evidence that the company suffered …

In 2015, the FCC under Tom Wheeler classified broadband (and therefore broadband providers) as a communication service under Title II of the Communications Act of 1934. The goal of the FCC at the time was to ensure corporations were required to serve data at a constant speed, rather than having …

When Microsoft announced its refreshed Surface Book 2 last week, it was quite clear about how it wanted to position the product. “This is a desktop,” Panos Panay, Microsoft’s corporate VP of devices, declared. “For many, this is likely the most performant desktop they have ever seen.” Apparently Panay was …