Technology

The forthcoming Fall Creators Update for Windows 10 will do a great many things, including asking you to review your privacy settings every 15 minutes until it comes out later this year. As part of the update, Microsoft will be rolling some functions into different ones, and wholly eliminating others. Some …

Trying to decide which programming languages to study, whether prior to college, during it, or in continuing professional development can have a significant impact on your employment prospects and opportunities thereafter. Given this, periodic efforts have been made to rank the most important and popular languages over time, to give …

Today’s kids aren’t just reading books. They’re also tapping and playing with interactive stories on tablets as preschoolers, then delving into instant messaging-like chat fiction apps as teens. Amazon’s entry in this space, Amazon Rapids, was announced late last year as a way to bring this style of interactive fiction …

Google has taken Android from a small startup to the largest mobile computing platform in the world. You can’t do that solely on luck, but that doesn’t mean Google hasn’t made some mistakes. Some have pointed to one issue or another as evidence of Android’s inadequacy. Still, things have worked …

Netflix’s booming subscriber growth, announced in the company’s earnings last week, is also being felt on the App Store, where its app has again become the top earner in terms of revenue. According a recent report from app store analytics firm Sensor Tower, the app in Q2 saw 233 percent …

The Raspberry Pi has proved itself to be a versatile little computer, and you can get them for pocket change. It’s a bit light on power, though. Now, Gigabyte is preparing to launch a similar device called the GA-SBCAP3350. Yeah, it really needs a better name, but this slightly larger micro-computer …

To date, the Volkswagen scandal over diesel emissions (and lying to the California Air Resources Board and the EPA) has mostly been contained to VW and, in a few cases, other brands Volkswagen Group owns like Porsche and Audi. But now it’s possible BMW, an entirely separate company, may have colluded …

The anonymity afforded by the Tor network has led to the creation of numerous “darknet markets,” where people buy and sell illegal goods like drugs, malware, fake IDs, weapons, and more. These operations have been famously difficult to stop. But an international team of law enforcement agencies just executed an impressive …

There’s a new iOS update out, 10.3.3, and if you use Wi-Fi on your iPhone and are still running OS X, you’ll want to grab it immediately. There are a number of other security patches and bug fixes within this version of the OS. But the Wi-Fi problem is grabbing …

Back in 2015, Microsoft trumpeted the opening of a new factory in Wilsonville, stamping “Made in Portland, Oregon” on each and every huge touch-screen computer it made in the US. The company hired more than 100 people to build Surface Hubs. The Surface Hub is an extremely expensive machine, at …