Technology

There’s a new competitor in town for the Raspberry Pi 3, and it may prove a better fit for certain types of workloads. The Rock64 (sold by Pine64) is similar to the RBP3 in several respects: Both chips use a Cortex-A53 CPU, though it’s almost impossible to determine how high …

Historically, GPUs have been designed as monolithic dies with all of their functionality under one ‘roof.’ This hasn’t always been the case — the earliest GPUs sometimes used separate chips for specific functionality. Both AMD and Nvidia have, at various times, used different cores to provide support for additional monitors …

One of the most fundamental problems in modern silicon is known as the processor-memory performance gap. The term, which has been used for decades, refers to the well-known tendency for CPUs to advance more quickly in terms of performance than memory does. Speculative prefetching, the implementation of various cache levels …

You can buy a mechanical keyboard right now that has fancy LEDs, various custom key switches, and wireless connectivity. However, some keyboard enthusiasts would tell you that the mechanical keyboard actually reached perfection in the early 1980s. That’s when IBM started producing the Model F keyboard. Any units that have …

Lightricks, the maker of the popular selfie-correcting app Facetune, is debuting a new photo-editing app today called Enlight Photofox. This is the second time that Lightricks has launched the next generation of an existing app as an entirely new, standalone application — a strategy that’s still somewhat rare on today’s …

For the past 26 years, the same company has led the semiconductor industry in yearly revenue: Intel. While the Santa Clara firm makes a distinct minority of the total semiconductor silicon manufactured worldwide, it still leads the market in sales revenue — or at least, it did. Samsung is now …

The story of last week’s NotPetya ransomware outbreak has taken an unexpected turn. The ransomed funds have remained idle in a Bitcoin wallet ever since the attack was mitigated by Ukrainian authorities, but now the money is on the move. Someone claiming to be behind the attack has withdrawn the …

A few years ago you had to spend big bucks to get a smartphone that was actually enjoyable to use. Things changed when great unlocked devices like the Moto G and OnePlus One came out. Suddenly, you could have a reliable phone without selling your soul to a carrier. OnePlus …

Digital video editing has long been associated with massive machines packed with the most expensive components on the market, and with good reason. Dark and musty rooms crammed with tens of thousands of dollars worth of equipment have been par for the course in the realm of high-end editing for …

Traditionally, setting up Wi-Fi over a large area required a fair amount of sophistication. Doing it inexpensively often required repurposing low-end routers to avoid the high cost of dedicated access points (APs). That situation has changed dramatically, with literally dozens of companies now offering some type of mesh networking system …