Technology

Google’s search app on iOS is adding a Trending Searches feature, similar to Twitter or Facebook’s Trends, with an update that rolled out later in the day on Thursday. According to the app’s added “What’s New” text on the App Store, Google will now show you searches that are “trending …

There’s no shortage of weather apps on the market, but you may have noticed that few of them are actually all that good. That’s where a new entry called Weather Atlas, from the developer behind the popular productivity app Launch Center Pro, comes in. This newly launched weather application aims …

The Chinese corporation TCL has announced that it plans to launch Palm-branded devices in 2018. TCL bought the rights to the Palm brand from HP back in 2014 and initially planned to relaunch the company, but there’s been little action on the Palm front since that purchase. Now the company …

PC case modding and alternative designs have been a popular PC subculture for decades. There are various options available online, from a handful of builders who will do bespoke work, to high-end chassis sold by mainstream OEMs, to custom builds people do to scratch their own particular desire for a …

Dell’s Inspiron 7000 gaming series has been a great way to pick up a midrange laptop with the chops for gaming without paying an arm and a leg. The current 15-inch system offers a Core i5-7300HQ, a GTX 1050 Ti, 8GB of DDR4, a 1080p display, and a GTX 1050 …

SanDisk is offering a new 400GB microSD card, a breakthrough that would make it the largest microSD currently on the market. SanDisk, which is owned by Western Digital, hasn’t revealed details beyond stating that the capacity breakthrough was the result of WD “leveraging its proprietary memory technology and design and …

Microsoft’s mobile game streaming app Mixer Create is launching out of beta testing today on iOS and Android, allowing gamers to broadcast the games they’re playing right from their phone. This feature works on Android with all games, but is more limited on iOS. On iPhone, select games that have …

Movidius, the company behind early work on Google’s Project Tango and its own Myriad 2 high performance vision processors, has announced a new VPU (Vision Processing Unit) dubbed Myriad X. The new core is a significant advance on previous designs, and Movidius claims it can process up to 1 trillion …

Earlier this year, Intel revamped its entire Xeon line, eliminating the previous E7, E5, and E3 families with a new scheme based around a confusing set of labels (Platinum, Gold, Silver, Bronze). When it did so, it also launched a new lineup of Xeon parts based on its new Socket …

Three and a half years ago, a group of investors filed a lawsuit against AMD. The group argued that the company’s decision to write down the value of its inventory of Llano — the first Fusion APU — by $100 million, after pumping it in bullish quarterly meetings and analyst days, …