Technology

Check your kid’s phone for this app, ASAP: Wishbone, a popular quiz app for kids, tweens and teens, has been hacked, according to a report from Motherboard out this morning. The hack involved 2.2 million email addresses as well as 287,000 phone numbers, many of which are from kids under …

The outcry when Microsoft tried to end support for Windows XP was so great the company had to delay the shutdown multiple times. It’s unlikely Windows Vista will get the same treatment. Microsoft is planning to quietly end support for Vista in just one month. After April 11th, 2017, Vista …

AMD’s new Ryzen microprocessor has revitalized the company’s CPU business and makes a credible play for the workstation, desktop, and (soon) the server markets. Its gaming performance, however, was initially concerning. At 1080p, the company’s CPUs are well behind Intel, at least in certain titles. Additional testing in our GTX …

Once best known for an innovative dashcam solution that could be added to any car and helped alert drivers to various dangers, Israeli vision tech powerhouse Mobileye evolved its strategy to focus entirely on OEM products and technology with automakers over the last few years. Mobileye has grown to dominate that market, landing partnerships …

With Sony’s PlayStation 4 Pro now shipping, there’s a great deal of speculation around Microsoft’s upcoming Project Scorpio. Microsoft has implied it wants to leapfrog both the Xbox One and the PS4 Pro by a significant margin, but details on how these improvements would impact the existing Xbox One ecosystem …

Ever since AMD launched Ryzen, the CPU has been selling well — it continues to occupy multiple spots on Amazon’s best-selling CPU list (currently Ryzen chips hold #9, #10, and #15, with the old FX family holding spots #8 and #14, at the time of this writing). Ryzen motherboards, however, …

Tivoli Audio’s classic 2000 Model One table radio gets a complete makeover 17 years later. The Model One Digital, announced this week, adds Bluetooth and Wi-Fi connections to stream music from your smartphone, PC, or the Web. It still tunes FM directly, but Tivoli dropped AM radio. Adding an optional …

You may be certain you’re not a robot, but a robot could be programmed to think that. Existential crises aside, determining which users are and are not robots is a complex task for web services. Go too easy and bots could flood in; make the test too hard and users …

Remember Vigilante? The controversial crime reporting app was kicked out of the App Store in November shortly after its release because Apple believed it encouraged private citizens to engage in, well…vigilantism. Now the app is back, under different branding. The new “Citizen” app, operating in New York City, will send you real-time …

Intel and its 3D XPoint memory have dominated recent headlines on NAND flash alternatives, but they’ve never been the only game in town. Everspin, a company whose technology we’ve covered several times in the past, announced today that they will bring new MRAM-based drives to market with new partners and …