Technology

Star Trek Discovery debuted Sunday night to generally strong reviews. The show had a troubled path to launch, with delays and showrunners bowing out. Earlier this month, CBS announced it wouldn’t allow anyone to publish reviews of the TV show before it aired. Normally when a network or studio refuses …

When Apple unveiled the iPhone 8, 8 Plus, and iPhone X earlier this month, it was immediately obvious which device had captured the public’s imagination. The reviews on the iPhone 8 and 8 Plus give those devices simultaneous high marks for yet another iteration of what is, fundamentally, an excellent …

When GlobalFoundries bought IBM’s semiconductor business two years ago, it signed a number of agreements to continue to manufacture IBM hardware and to provide facilities that would meet IBM’s manufacturing requirements. This week, the company announced that it would deploy a new 14nm FinFET process to build IBM’s z14 mainframe …

Last month, AMD’s Ryzen Threadripper 1950X slipped past Intel to claim the overall high-end performance crown for the first time in over a decade. Threadripper’s workstation-class benchmark performance has been excellent since AMD’s new CPU core debuted back in March, and Threadripper gave the smaller company a big-iron desktop CPU …

Intel’s Coffee Lake desktop CPUs will launch in a little over a week, offering substantially higher performance than the iterative improvements we’ve seen since Sandy Bridge. It’s a clear response to AMD’s Ryzen, which currently offers better multi-threaded performance and higher core counts than Intel’s Core i3, i5, and i7 …

A new app called Pokémon Playhouse from the Pokémon Company, released this week, is bringing Pikachu and friends to preschoolers. Unlike the augmented reality game Pokémon Go, a collaboration between Niantic and Nintendo by way of the Pokémon Company, this latest game is not focused on capturing Pokémon, battling and …

Reelgood, a service aimed at helping cord cutters find new shows and movies to watch from across streaming services, is now available on mobile devices. The company this week launched on iOS – its first mobile application – which allows you to search and browse content from over 250 streaming …

If you like iPhones, Apple’s iPhone 8 is a perfectly good phone. It adds new features like TrueTone, an updated camera (particularly on the iPhone 8 Plus), a hexa-core CPU built on a 10nm process, wireless charging, and the ability to shoot 4K video at 60fps (the iPhone 7 only …

At the GlobalFoundries Technology Conference this week, AMD’s CTO, Mark Papermaster, announced his firm would use GlobalFoundries’ new 12nm LP process node for upcoming products. GlobalFoundries said 12nm LP would begin production in 2018 and ramp up to volume fairly quickly. The reason the company can do that, almost without …

When Nvidia or AMD launch a new GPU, there’s a typical rollout pattern. The first cards out the door are reference designs, based on a package Nvidia and AMD provide. Later, companies like MSI, Gigabyte, EVGA, Asus, and PowerColor debut their own custom designs. These custom boards are generally clocked …