Technology

  Apple has applied for a patent on a novel concept for an all-in-one PC — an iMac built into a single, curved sheet of glass encompassing both a keyboard and dual trackpads. The patent application, which isn’t the same thing as a patent grant, shows an attractively curved conceptual …

  Microsoft spent the last year developing a new browser based on Chromium. It just released the new Chromium Edge earlier this month, but it’s already giving back to the open-source project. Eagle-eyed users have spotted a comment thread in the Chromium Gerrit that points to Microsoft’s custom tab management …

  Between Intel’s recently-filed annual report and its full-year 2019 results, some interesting information has dropped recently about the company. Intel had a record-breaking 2019, with $72B in yearly revenue across its various product segments. Data center (servers) and client PC (desktop, mobile) tend to be where we focus at …

  Over the last few years, we’ve seen a notable increase in the number of notebook shipping with AMD Ryzen processors. MSI’s Alpha 15 is one of the company’s newest gaming laptops to ship with an AMD CPU. With the Alpha 15’s rich, gaming-oriented set of features, does it have …

  Today is the 10th anniversary of the unveiling of Apple’s iPad, and the beginning of a massive shift in personal computing. The iPhone was already making a huge impact — 2010, to my recollection, was prime “There’s an app for that,” territory — but it wasn’t affecting PC sales. …

  As we’ve learned time and time again, “free” things on the internet are almost never truly free. If you’re not paying with money, you’re probably paying with your data. That’s the case with the free antivirus products from Avast, which harvest browsing history for sale to major corporations. Despite …

  We’ve heard a lot of rumors about the upcoming desktop Comet Lake chips, which are expected to feature Hyper-Threading across all products and a maximum of 10 cores on the top-end parts. The lowest-end Core i3 will be a 4C/8T part, putting it more-or-less on par with the Core …

  Microsoft is showing off ideas for its upcoming dual-screen devices that will run Windows 10X. Normally we don’t talk much about things like design UI at ET, but a look at recent history shows how important this can be. One reason Android didn’t take much market share in tablets …

  Motorola claims it’s been working on its new foldable Razr smartphone for years, but it wasn’t ready to launch the device in December as originally planned. Verizon now says it’s ready to release the device on February 6th, and pre-orders go live on January 26th. However, the phone will …

  Since the launch of Windows 10, Microsoft has experimented with various ways to advertise its apps and capabilities. Most of these have been ill received for one reason or another — many people fundamentally don’t like it when you give yourself the power to push advertising to their desktops …