Technology

It’s often difficult for first-generation products to satisfy fans — we ourselves took Apple to task for its $159 wireless AirPods — but the feedback coming in on Google’s Pixel Buds is almost entirely bad. We’ve rounded up reviews from Android Police, Digital Trends, Gizmodo, Mashable, and Slashgear. Only one review, …

A new report from App Annie predicts that time spent doing mobile shopping via apps will grow 45 percent in the U.S. during the week of Black Friday, compared to the same time two years ago. The firm also expects revenue generated through apps to break new records this season, …

Over the past six years, Intel has adroitly retaken and defended its data center business from all challengers. AMD was never able to win significant share for its Bulldozer and Piledriver families, and while companies like Calxeda intended to challenge Intel in high-density servers, such battles never materialized. AMD’s Epyc …

The Supercomputing 2017 (SC17) conference has been in full swing this week, with major announcements from a number of players in the HPC industry. Nvidia has been no exception — the company has feathered its cap with announcements that it now has major co-processors in 87 of the TOP500 supercomputers …

Thirty-seven years after Dr. Amar Bose hit on the idea of beefing up a loudspeaker’s electromagnetic driver to be an adaptive car suspension, Bose is selling off the technology to ClearMotion, another Boston-area tech company founded by MIT graduates. Bose got as far as developing prototype cars that were exhibited …

As had been rumored this week, Hulu and Sprint today announced that Hulu’s service will now come bundled with Sprint’s unlimited wireless plan. Starting on November 17, both new and existing customers of the Sprint Unlimited Freedom plan will gain access to Hulu’s Limited Commercials service – the on-demand TV …

Tiny RoboBee flies, swims, and launches itself from water back into the air The millimeter-scale RoboBee can fly, dive into water, swim around, and after that remove into the air again. At just 175 milligrams, it’s 1,000 times lighter than any other aerial-to-aquatic robotic. Designed at Harvard’s microrobotics lab, the …

Google launched Android in 2008 on a single phone, but the platform was designed to be adaptable and freely available. Anyone can download the open source code and make changes to it. This has led to massive success for Android, which is now the most popular computing platform on the …

Four to five years ago, it was common to see CEOs and companies confidently predicting ARM would have a significant slice of the server market in the not-too-distant future. This, needless to say, has not come to pass. Qualcomm recently launched its upcoming Falkor CPUs, but those parts haven’t had …

Mozilla has been fighting a losing battle against Google Chrome for the past few years. Firefox’s share of the browser market has shrunk dramatically, its once-dominant position chewed down to a minority. All versions of Firefox currently have a 9.1 percent market share, below IE + Edge and Safari. Now, …