Technology

  The Google Drive app on PC and Mac has been one of the primary conduits for accessing documents and files in Google’s cloud since the service debuted in 2012. Google has now announced the impending shutdown of the app, which some have interpreted as a massive loss of functionality. …

  Equifax, one of the United States’ three major credit bureaus, acknowledged yesterday that it had been affected by the worst known data breach in US history. An ocean of personally identifiable information (PII) for 143 million people has been stolen by hackers, including social security numbers, addresses, hundreds of …

Zelle, the PayPal rival backed by more than 30 U.S. banks, is preparing to launch its standalone mobile app on Tuesday, September 12th. The move is meant to give the U.S. banking industry a foothold in the person-to-person payments business, where they’re losing ground to services like PayPal, Venmo, Square …

  HTC’s phone business has been in freefall for years, despite the firm’s early leadership position in the Android market. In August, the company made just $100 million, its lowest monthly revenue in 13 years. Worse, the handset that was meant to boost its fortunes, the U11, may have already …

  If you’ve ever pulled your credit score in the United States, chances are you’ve dealt with either Experian, Equifax, or TransUnion. These three companies are the major national credit bureaus in the United States, and if you’ve ever bought anything on credit or taken out a student loan, the …

  Every year, without fail, both Apple and Google declare that the latest version of their operating system contains additional improvements that will save battery life and improve performance. In reality, these gains tend to be application or task-specific, which is to say that some users, in some cases, can …

  Rumors about Apple’s iPhone 8 (aka iPhone X, aka iPhone Anniversary Edition), began to spread last year, almost before the print was dry on Apple’s iPhone 7 announcements. With Apple’s September 12th unveil now less than a week away, some of those rumors have reached a fever pitch. But …

  Whether you’ve converted (or plan to convert) to an AMD-powered system or not, there’s no denying AMD’s Ryzen series of CPUs injected more life into the overall CPU market in 2017 than we’ve seen in almost a decade. Thanks to a combination of vastly improved thermals, performance, and core …

  Ookla has released its annual Speedtest.net report on wireless and wireline internet speeds in the United States, and the various carrier-specific and regional variations between different parts of the US itself. The average performance across the US had jumped dramatically in past years, but the last 12 months saw …

  One ongoing question, ever since AMD launched its Ryzen 7 family, is how well the CPUs are selling. We’ve seen some arguments that claim AMD’s improved financials are unstable or temporary, based on the idea that GPUs were more profitable than CPUs (extremely unlikely), or that AMD’s lower profit …