Technology

When the Sony Xperia X Compact smartphone launched in the US the device retailed for $500 and now a couple of retailers have reduced the price of the handset to $350. The device is available from Best Buy and Amazon in the US for $349.99, it was previously available with …

Apple kicked off the era of capacitive touchscreen smartphones, but its display technology has fallen a little behind in recent years. The AMOLED panels used by smartphone makers like Samsung can best Apple’s LCDs in every category, but Apple might be planning to play catch up with the iPhone 8. …

Android is based on the Linux kernel, so right from the start, tinkerers and power users were interested in gaining root access to make changes and graft on new features. In the early days, this was a fairly simple procedure on most devices. There were several apps and tools that …

Samsung’s Note 7 release and subsequent is quickly becoming a legendary blunder in the smartphone industry. The Korean electronics giant is still conducting an internal investigation of the battery fires that plagued this device during its short life. But manufacturing technology company Instrumental has gotten its hands on a Note 7 …

Add Volkswagen to the major automakers who are creating a mobility services company. VW’s service is called Moia; it will be headquartered in Berlin, and it will kick off a year from now in Berlin and Hamburg, Germany. The service will eventually provide cars using the Moia brand. Before that, …

Regardless of whether or not you like the iPhone, you have to admit Apple’s hardware has always been impeccably well designed. Its phones feel extremely high-quality, but the last few years have been marred by several high-profile hardware defects. First was “touch disease,” which Apple refused to acknowledge for ages, …

It may be hard to believe, but there are still people using the Samsung Galaxy Note 7, even after months of Samsung and carriers doing everything possible to get them back. The Note 7 was officially cancelled a few months ago following repeated battery fires, which persisted after a recall …

Earlier this year, Google’s AlphaGo AI successfully beat world-class champion Go player Lee Se-dol in four games out of five. This was a significant milestone, thanks to the sheer number of positions that are possible within the game, and the difficulty of creating an AI that could efficiently evaluate them before the …

For the last few years, Backblaze has released quarterly reports on its hard drive reliability and replacement rates. Backblaze is a provider of cloud backup services and uses its own custom storage solutions (dubbed Drive Pods) to hold hundreds of gigabytes of data in each pod. This month, the company …

Chalk this one up as mildly infuriating. In the past, we’ve covered Netflix’s 4K streaming limitations and how the platform was limited to handful of televisions, even though PCs are easily capable of handling 4K. Now we know that 4K content is officially coming to the PC with the release …