Technology

Google’s Nest subsidiary got its start with a smart thermostat, but the acquisition of Dropcam in 2014 helped it break into the burgeoning home security camera market. Nest has released a few cameras since then, but they haven’t been dramatically different than the cameras Dropcam was making. With the announcement …

Twitter is testing a new interface for its mobile applications on iOS and Android, which involves rounded profile images, buttons and other features. It’s unclear what advantage going “round” would bring, as the style’s adoption among app makers and designers tends to be more of a trend that ebbs and …

Samsung is one of the first manufacturers to make OLED screen technology a viable option for consumer electronics, and today it makes the best panels on the market. It’s been showing off flexible AMOLED panels for years, but now it’s demoing something new: stretchable OLEDs. Instead of simply bending and …

Andy Rubin, the founder of Android, has unveiled his first phone — and it’s set to make a real impact at the very top of the industry. The stunning Essential Phone PH-1, first reported by The Verge, is made of a combination of titanium and ceramic for extra durability. Any Rubin …

Most of Intel’s high-end CPUs have stuck to the quad-core design for years, but now Intel is bringing out the big guns to compete with AMD’s new Ryzen chips with their multitude of cores. At Computex in Taipei, Intel has unveiled the updated Core X-Series with a flagship Core i9 …

A nearly unanimous Supreme Court told Lexmark it can’t use patent law to restrict printer cartridge buyers from doing what they want with the cartridges, including refilling them or even selling them to cartridge manufacturers. In an opinion by Chief Just John Roberts, “Lexmark exhausted its patent rights” once it …

An ex-Apple designer and former Twitter engineer have teamed up for a new take on iPhone photography, with today’s launch of their iOS camera app called Halide. The idea is to offer a variety of high-end tools for taking quality photographs, but packaged in a way where accessing those controls via gestures …

SAN JOSE — A permanent exhibit at Silicon Valley’s iconic Tech Museum is a rite of passage for technologies. Many of them, like robotics and semiconductors, were quite mature when that day came. For the fields of virtual, augmented, and mixed reality, which as a group the museum calls XR, …

U.S. consumers may be cutting the cord with pay TV, but that doesn’t mean they’ve stopped watching the big screen, according to new data released by Nielsen this morning. In a report detailing the viewing habits of U.S. adults, the measurement firm found that 92 percent of all viewing among …

Ever since news surfaced that VW had engaged in massive fraud and criminal misrepresentation of its TDI “Clean Diesel” products, there have been questions about how the company did what it did. It’s one thing to see the effects of the software code in action, and repeated real-world driving tests …