Technology

  Intel’s decision to buy startup Habana Labs in December for $2B set tongues to wagging about what it might mean for Nervana, the previous AI startup Intel acquired in 2016. Roughly a month later, the other shoe has dropped: Intel has announced it will cancel the NNP-T and NNP-I …

  It looks as though the rumors about Intel’s upcoming Comet Lake desktop packing 10 cores and top frequencies above 5GHz that we reported on last August are true, at least at the very top of the stack. The Core i9-10900K has appeared in the 3DMark database with 10 cores, …

  For the past few years, talking about the flaws of Apple product design has felt like spitting into a hurricane. After all, Apple remains fantastically successful. Its products are in high demand in both the PC and mobile spaces. It virtually owns the high-end tablet market and has created …

Google’s Pixel line of smart devices never ever have the most effective equipment of any kind of Android phone, however Google offsets it with software program. Previous Pixels have actually debuted functions like Call Screen and also Google Assistant. Currently, the long-rumored telephone call recording function might get on the …

  In 2013, VIA Technologies created a joint venture with the Shanghai Municipal Government and created Zhaoxin, a fabless semiconductor company. Zhaoxin (meaning “million-core,” according to Wikipedia) launched a series of chips based on the old VIA Isaiah core. Over the years, the company has evolved the original Isaiah architecture …

  Huawei was on-track to become the largest smartphone maker in the world a year ago, but 2019 brought with it new challenges for the Chinese megacorporation. The US government instituted a technology export ban that cut it off from Google services. A Huawei executive has now said the company …

You might be forgiven for thinking MIDI music was completely dead. While MIDI files were originally awesome (especially if your alternative was a PC speaker), everyone knew that WAV files offered higher audio fidelity by the early 1990s. Not being a musician, the last time I seriously recall encountering MIDI …

  We’ve heard rumblings that Samsung’s second foldable phone could debut soon, and a new leak lays out all the details and press images. The Galaxy Z Flip has more in common with the upcoming Moto Razr than it does with Samsung’s 2019 Galaxy Fold. It’s a clamshell device with …

  Amazon-owned Ring has been more apt to brush aside privacy concerns than other smart home companies. It has defended controversial initiatives like its cooperation with police by claiming that it only wants to make communities safer. It’s going to be harder to deflect the latest troubling chapter in the …

  Sharing files on Android could get much easier in the near future. Google is working on a local sharing system similar to Apple’s popular AirDrop feature, and XDA managed to get it working for a quick demo. The core of Google’s “Nearby Sharing” is already live in Google Play …