Technology

Are Stoners Really Safer Drivers Than People Texting or Using Touch Screens? Now there’s another survey showing how using a smartphone appears to dramatically slow a driver’s reaction time and increase the chances of having an accident. Once again, drunk drivers and cannabis users fare better than sober test drivers …

The iPhone SE 2 Reportedly Enters Mass Production, iPhone 12 Delayed Companies the world over are scrambling to figure out how to deal with coronavirus and its associated impacts, and Apple is no exception. According to one insider, the company still plans to launch the iPhone SE 2 (rumored to …

Google Will Stop Work on Chrome 82 Due to Coronavirus Delays Google is a massive company with an extensive remote working infrastructure, but even it has felt the impact of coronavirus on worker productivity. The company has already announced that it would have to delay Chrome releases during the pandemic, …

Windows Zero-Day Attack Lets Hackers Hide Malicious Code in Fonts There’s a new Windows exploit popping up around the internet, but that’s just another day for a nearly ubiquitous desktop operating system. However, this particular vulnerability is serious for several reasons, not least of which it is a “zero-day” bug …

Pinterest launches a ‘Today’ tab featuring daily recommendations and trending topics The COVID-19 outbreak has led to record Pinterest usage as people stuck at home have increased their searches for things like lesson plans, kids’ crafts, new recipes and gardening ideas. Last weekend, for example, Pinterest saw more searches and …

Intel Video Showcases How a 10nm CPU Gets Built I’m not normally one for just writing up a company-produced video, but a recent Intel release on how 10nm chips get built is instructive enough to merit a mention. The video below steps through the various parts of the chip-manufacturing process …

How to Use Adobe’s Creative Cloud Remotely Many enterprises and studios are familiar with using Adobe’s Team and Enterprise offerings collaboratively. But collaboration inside a corporate LAN isn’t the same thing as trying to get work done with everyone working remotely. So Adobe has put together a guide to best …

Female-led Robin Games raises $7M to combine lifestyle content with fantasy gaming As a former Jam City executive, Jill Wilson led teams behind some of the top-grossing gaming franchises, like Cookie Jam and Panda Pop. Now she’s running her own startup, Robin Games, where a team of mostly women is …

Sony PS5 Specs Revealed: Unusual Boost Methods, PCIe 4.0 Storage   For the last few months, Microsoft has had the next-generation console PR space all to itself. Nintendo had nothing in the pipe and Sony was staying quiet about the PlayStation 5, which gave Microsoft plenty of room to talk …

Intel Mostly Cancels Cooper Lake: Is This Good News for 10nm? Intel has confirmed that it won’t be launching the full line-up of Cooper Lake CPUs it had previously expected to deploy. As a reminder, Cooper Lake was the 14nm CPU expected to introduce Intel’s support for bfloat16, a new …