Technology

A week ago, AMD’s stock was trading at $14.25, nearly its highest level in five years. As of this writing, the stock has fallen to $10.89, a drop of nearly 25 percent. The company has been slagged by investment analysts over the past week. While I’m not an investor and …

Modern electronic devices are based on circuit elements like resistors, capacitors, and inductors. However, there’s a fourth still-experimental type of component called a memristor. Engineers have been trying to perfect the memristor for years, but so far attempts to make these components a reality have failed on one or more …

Microsoft today announced the launch of a new beta version of its mobile gameplay streaming app, Mixer, for both iOS and Android. The company says the new app features an entirely different codebase that will allow it to roll out updates more quickly, and includes a number of changes focused …

System security is genuinely hard, even in the best of situations. Locking down machines and data in ways that can’t be exfiltrated by a rogue actor is extremely difficult, particularly when said data needs to be visible to certain people as part of their work. But, as Equifax’s recent hack …

Samsung posted another record quarter, and it again has its components business to thank for more stellar results. The Korea tech giant shrugged off scandals, which include a jail sentence for its de factor leader and last year’s Note 7 saga, to record a 14.53 trillion won ($12.92 billion) profit for the …

PhotoPlus Expo is the CES of cameras, a show dedicated to photography equipment, printing services, and how-to seminars for professionals and advanced amateurs. It’s virtually all about digital photography and video, although one (well-used) Beseler enlarger for printing from film was spotted on the show floor of the Javits Center …

Apple has a reputation, rightly or wrongly, for taking security on its iOS platform very seriously. Developer Felix Krause recently called attention to a simple hack that can be used to steal passwords on iOS, and now he’s back with another potential Apple security hole. According to Krause, the way …

There are two reasons to buy a product from a local electronics store as opposed to ordering online: Either you need something immediately or there’s a sale price that makes buying in-person worth the hassle of doing so. It’s comparatively rare for a store to claim jacking up the price …

In past years, “unlimited” mobile data actually meant unlimited. Today, there are myriad limits placed on the so-called unlimited plans sold by Verizon, T-Mobile, and others. For example, Verizon’s unlimited plans throttle your video streams to a lower bitrate than other data. If you really want to get around that limit, …

Apple’s iPhone X is supposed to represent the future of technology. Unfortunately, it appears that future isn’t going to be one any of us can afford. The company’s service pricing page for its upcoming phone makes it clear that anyone who breaks their iPhone X can look forward to paying …