Technology

Toshiba is in bad shape right now. The company’s problems and nuclear construction delays have left it on the verge of bankruptcy, and the firm is looking to sell its NAND flash manufacturing unit to generate some much-needed capital. The most obvious buyer would be Western Digital, Toshiba’s partner on …

For the past few years, Google has pushed a particular technology for implementing augmented reality in phones. Known first as Project Tango and now as Tango, Google’s AR platform used to have specific requirements for its cameras that required specialized hardware. This reliance on custom sensors doomed Tango in the …

Yesterday, AMD’s Vega 56 GPU went on sale — and immediately vanished from the market. Availability was exceptionally brief, possibly only a matter of minutes, and the cards are now sold out at every retailer we’ve checked (Amazon, Best Buy, Newegg). Obviously new stock may trickle out to manufacturers, but …

AMD’s Ryzen 7 has been generally well-received by the enthusiast community, but there’s been one low-level problem that we’ve been watching but haven’t previously reported on. In early June, Ryzen users running Linux began reporting segmentation faults when running multiple concurrent compilation workloads using multiple different versions of GCC. LVVM/Clang …

Earlier this year, YouTube introduced a major redesign of its desktop website which delivered a cleaner look and new features like a “dark mode” for nighttime watching. Today, YouTube is taking this update out of beta, and making it available to all users. In addition, the company is extending the …

Andy Rubin made his bones in the mobile industry by co-founding Danger (maker of the Sidekick) and Android, which was acquired by Google and turned into the largest mobile platform on Earth. It’s an impressive pedigree, so everyone was interested when Rubin announced his new hardware startup was going to …

For almost a year we’ve heard rumors that Apple would launch multiple iPhones this year. The 10th anniversary of the original iPhone’s debut is almost upon us, and the company is supposedly prepping a top-end device to showcase new and emerging technologies. This new technology, however, comes at a price …

One constant of CPU manufacturing for decades has been that different components on the same die must share a common process node. It’s certainly possible to build a package that combines, say, a 14nm CPU with a large pool of on-chip cache built at 22nm, or to have a CPU …

A few years ago 3D printing was supposed to be the next big thing, but progress has been slower than those in the industry had hoped. The cost of 3D printers has come down, but they’re not much more capable than they were when they cost thousands of dollars. Part …

Chinese manufacturer DJI rules the market for consumer drone aircraft, but you’ve traditionally had to spend big in order to get features like HD cameras and long-distance communication. The Spark drone aircraft, which launched a few months ago, packs premium features into a smaller, cheaper package. However, owners of the …