Technology

One of the best things about the Android and Windows ecosystems is the wide variety of innovative products brought to market. Many of them don’t survive for long, but some, like Microsoft’s Surface, persist and eventually thrive. Lenovo is hoping the same is true of its unique Yoga Book clamshell-style …

Those who have been using Android since the early days know how much the security situation has improved. But it’s still far from perfect. So many companies are making and selling phones, that staggering security mistakes continue to occur from time to time. The latest scare comes by way of …

Battery technology has been advancing at a glacial pace for many years now, which has severely limited the processing power of mobile devices. Recent advances in charging technology have eased the burden a little, though. Features like Qualcomm’s Quick Charge mean you can get a substantial power boost with just …

Google’s new Pixel phones are the finest example of Android, but they’re also in terribly short supply. The wait on devices to ship has been multiple weeks since launch day, and that has led some device resellers to get creative. It turns out Google is taking a harder line on …

Ever since Microsoft released the Surface RT, people have wondered whether the company would build an x86 emulator to allow ARM chips to run x86 Win32 applications. One of the reasons why the Surface RT and Surface 2 tablet families ultimately failed in the market is because they could run so …

The SD Association has announced a new performance standard for SD cards aimed at improving customer experiences and delivering more consistent performance metrics. The new performance information has become necessary because of Android’s new “Adoptable Storage” capability, which was introduced just over a year ago with the debut of Marshmallow. …

We’ve all come a long way, the good people and the black hats and the tech we all depend on. It used to be rainbow tables and dial-up, and most people weren’t online at all. Now your stuff connects to the Internet and phones home — often whether or not …

A little over a year after the excellent Super Mario Maker was released for the Wii U, it is now available on Nintendo’s 3DS too. On the one hand, this seems to be such an obvious move- the 3DS is also a platform that lends itself to creation tools very well, …

Playtonic’s Yooka-Laylee, a crowd-funded spiritual successor to Banjo-Kazooie, finally has a release date. It will be out on April 11th 2017 worldwide for Xbox One, PS4 and PC. However, the ex-Rare devs have announced that “unforeseen technical issues” led to the cancellation of the Wii U version. Playtonic is still …

The Dawning on Rise of Iron, the newest update for Destiny is kicking off on December 13th and the first bits of information have been released at this year’s PlayStation Experience. For all of the fans who’d enjoyed the previous iteration of the Sparrow Racing League will be quite pleased with the …