Technology

Each year, Samsung releases a new flagship display, and each year, DisplayMate writes an evaluation of it using more charts, figures, and data points than you find in your typical graduate thesis. Once again, the Galaxy S8 has gone under the proverbial knife, and once again it’s emerged triumphant. The …

Nintendo’s new hybrid handheld / living-room console is inevitably going to suffer more damage than its strictly living-room relatives; you don’t see too many people lugging a PlayStation 4 around with a built-in display, after all. A new report suggests that the Switch has problems over and above some intrinsic …

Everybody likes getting a thoughtful, warmly intended gift, but some people are really tough to buy for. Quirky academics and hardcore sci-tech people are sometimes the worst, because they’re picky — and does anybody really need another shelf object taking up space? But have no fear: ExtremeTech is here, with …

When the FCC approved the Time Warner Cable / Charter merger last year, there were a number of requirements attached. One of them was that Charter was required to extend broadband service to an additional two million customers, one million of whom were served by one other broadband competitor. Now, …

Microsoft is getting into the “fun camera app” game with a new iOS application called Sprinkles, which has now earned a featured spot in the “New apps we love” section of the App Store. The gist with Sprinkles, clearly aimed at a teen audience, is to offer a variety of traditional photo …

Ever since Apple launched the original iPhone, it’s worked closely with Imagination Technologies. Even after Apple began building its own GPU architecture, it relied on Imagination for other building blocks of its total solution. Apple, however, appears to be bringing that relationship to an end, and Imagination Technologies’ stock has …

Samsung is indisputably the most successful maker of Android devices, even with the trouble last year with the Note 7 battery fires. Android is doing fine right now — better than fine, actually. If that ever changes, Samsung is hedging its bets. Samsung has long had an in-house mobile platform …

It was just a few weeks ago when web analytics firm StatCounter predicted Android would overtake Windows as the most popular operating system online. Well, it didn’t take long. The latest numbers from StatCounter show Android with a narrow lead over Windows. After less than nine years, Google’s open source …

Last week, JEDEC announced that the upcoming DDR5 memory standard will offer double the bandwidth and density of DDR4, improve channel efficiency, and offer better power efficiency as well. The new standard isn’t expected to be in-market until 2020 — JEDEC will finalize the standard next year, and announce new …

Not enough resolution is one of the most common complaints about the current crop of VR headsets. They’re all more or less roughly 1080p (or 2K), split between the two lenses. So I was really interested when Aukey came out with the Cortex 4K VR headset at $399.99 — substantially below …