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One of the most intriguing features of Apple’s new flagship phone, the iPhone X, is Face ID. It replaces the fingerprint sensor and Touch ID with facial recognition. This is made possible by Apple’s new TrueDepth front-facing camera system. TrueDepth also enables Apple’s new Animojis and other special effects that …

Apple launched its refreshed iPhone 8 and 10th-anniversary-edition iPhone X yesterday. Samsung, of course, launched the latest Galaxy Note 8 a few weeks ago. But how do the devices compare with each other, and which one is the right choice for you? Let’s take a look. It’s impossible to cleanly …

Apple’s newest iPhones all support wireless charging, and that means automakers will move to make this a standard across most of their fleets. Never mind that dozens of Android phones already embed wireless charging. Overnight, Apple made it a standard. US automakers have deployed, slowly, wireless charging in their cars …

Prior to Satya Nadella’s tenure as Microsoft’s CEO, the firm employed extensive QA testers and used them for all of its Windows patch testing. Not long after Nadella came aboard, he reorganized the company, fired a large number of employees in the testing group, and began requiring OS developers to …

At its launch event yesterday, Apple announced a bold new strategy that could give it a leadership position in a critical market. Marketing professionals and executives from other companies were left looking foolish by comparison and they’ll undoubtedly scramble to keep up with the Cupertino-based company. I’m speaking, of course, …

Americans spent nearly a billion hours watching YouTube videos on Android this past July, according to new data released today by App Annie. That’s the largest amount of time spent in any one streaming video app in a month. The figure is yet another data point showcasing the shift in …

Updated 02:52: iPhone X launches on November 3rd at $999. Updated 02:21: iPhone X is coming with an OLED Super Retina Display. Updated 01:58: iPhone 8 is here! Updated 01:43: Apple TV 4K announced. Updated 01:29: Apple Watch Series 3 has a built-in cellular radio. Updated 12:58: The event has …

Apple was a few years late to the wearable game when it launched the Apple Watch in 2015. Android Wear had been around for more than a year, and the Pebble pre-dated that. However, Pebble has since folded, and Android Wear is stagnant. Apple says it’s selling more Apple Watches …

Intel’s upcoming Coffee Lake refresh is expected to boost core counts in response to AMD’s Ryzen launches from earlier this year. Now we’ve got some benchmark results on the upcoming Core i7-8700K, at least if the leaked data is accurate. (As always, take such information as rumor, pre-release data, etc, …

Samsung made a pair of announcements today about the future of its foundry manufacturing, and they imply things are going fairly well for the company. First, the company is announcing a new “11nm” process, which it claims will deliver “up to 15 percent higher performance and up to 10 percent …