Technology

For decades, various sci-fi shows have used various translation “devices,” which can automagically convert between the language of the speaker and the native language of the listener. From Star Trek‘s Universal Translator to the TARDIS translation matrix, it’s a handy way to handwave the fact that TV casts can’t be …

If mathematicians are collectively devices for turning coffee into theorems, as Alfréd Rényi once remarked, phone patents and purchase agreements are devices for turning patents into gobs and gobs of cash. Devices and technologies are so intertwined, it’s not unusual to see companies that compete in the same market and …

Any photographer struggling with the heavy-duty interfaces of Adobe’s Lightroom and Photoshop, or who simply doesn’t want so sign up for a subscription, is a good candidate for their lighterweight sibling, Photoshop Elements. The same goes for videographers unwilling to sign up for an expensive Creative Cloud plan and might …

We’ve been tracking the long-term growth of the VR ecosystem on PC thanks to Valve’s monthly Steam Hardware Survey and its reported data. This past summer saw major price cuts from both Oculus and HTC, with the Oculus Rift temporarily on sale with controllers for just $400, and HTC offering …

You might recall a time not that long ago that a 1TB hard drive was considered gigantic. How far we’ve come. Western Digital has started shipping its newest and largest hard drive, the HGST Ultrastar Hs14. As the name suggests, this drive has a whopping 14TB of space. Not only …

Over a year ago, Yahoo (back when it still existed) admitted up to a billion of its email accounts were breached in a massive attack. Evidence then surfaced that the attack was made much easier by Yahoo’s refusal to adopt basic security protocols or to improve its service, out of …

How many people are actually using Windows 10? You might think this is a simple question to answer, but Microsoft’s numbers have thus far failed to match up with the values reported by various tracking services. In the latest update of market share, Windows 10 appears to be closing the …

When AMD launched Threadripper back in early August, it promised that support for some features, like NVMe RAID, would arrive at a later time. As of now, drivers to enable NVMe RAID are now available for RAID 0, 1, and 10 (aka 1+0) configurations. This a significant selling point for …

HP Enterprise shared at least some of the source code used in the Pentagon’s cybersecurity defense systems with Russian defense agencies, Reuters reports, in a bid to win their business. The system in question, ArcSight, is designed to analyze cybersecurity threats, rank them by severity, stream and log real-time network data, …

The mid-engined version of everybody’s preferred American cars, the Chevrolet Corvette, is coming. After decades of speculation and makings, this is what we understand so far about the C8. Read More