Technology

  It’s been a minute since I’ve referenced his work, but CPU software architect and low-level feature researcher Agner Fog is still publishing periodic updates to his CPU manuals comparing the various AMD and Intel architectures. A recent update of his sheds light on a feature of AMD’s Zen 2 …

  Amazon has wormed its way into most areas of consumer electronics, such as smart speakers, security cameras, routers, and even wearables. The new Halo fitness band focuses on health, which is not a unique approach. However, it does stand apart from the crowd in one notable way: there’s no …

  When Microsoft introduced Windows 10 2004 earlier this year, it shipped an errata that may have shortened your SSD’s longevity depending on how often you reboot your machine. The good news is that a fix is on the way and that the problem shouldn’t have caused too many problems …

  Wikipedia is, in my opinion, one of the most successful ventures devoted to the dissemination of knowledge on the entire internet. It isn’t perfect — no encyclopedia or institution is — but it has had a profound effect on the decentralization of knowledge over the past two decades. Some …

  As school districts spin up with various remote distance and in-classroom learning plans to combat COVID-19, they’ve needed far more computers than typical for the back-to-school season. This is causing problems because — again, thanks to COVID-19 — the number of computers currently available for purchase is much lower …

  Credit: Dong Wenjie/Getty Images The history of VR/AR displays is one of tradeoffs. Most of the market is dominated by single-plane models, which force the viewer to un-naturally focus on a single distance no matter how far objects in the scene should be. Waveguide-based multi-focal displays, like those by …

  It hasn’t even been two weeks since Epic launched a legal volley at Apple and Google after daring them to remove Fortnite from their respective app stores. And yet, the case already has several twists and turns. The first of what will surely be many rulings in the cases …

  TSMC’s first virtual tech symposium showcased the release of a number of videos and updates on its manufacturing technology. Over the past few years, TSMC has pulled even with Intel, then taken a leadership position in semiconductors. After Intel announced a 7nm delay for its CPUs earlier this year, …

  Efforts to build a Star Trek tricorder-like device have been ongoing for at least a decade or two now, with various individuals and organizations contributing their own idea to the concept. For those of you who aren’t Star Trek fans: A tricorder is a small, handheld device capable of …

A new report disputing the validity of Triller’s recently announced download figures led Triller to respond with the threat of a lawsuit. Triller, a newly litigious TikTok rival that could potentially benefit from a TikTok ban in the U.S., has been pushing to capitalize on the recent turn of events …