Technology

Many of today’s front runner Android phones have amazing video cameras, however the video camera application on Google and also Samsung phones supposedly delivered with an unpleasant insect that can have enabled destructive applications to capture photos without your consent. The business really did not learn about the insect till …

  Supercomputing 19 (SC’19) has been in full swing this week, and AMD has made a number of high profile announcements at the event. There are new deals for Epyc with the EU and the San Diego Supercomputer Center, Amazon is planning to deliver Rome-based cloud computing instances, a pair …

  Ever since AMD shipped Ryzen 7nm CPUs, the enthusiast community has been busy trying to find ways to squeeze a bit more performance out of the product stack. One of the areas of concern highlighted by users is that Ryzen Master — AMD’s utility for overclocking and tweaking its …

  Intel has published a letter confirming its own supply issues in Q3 of this year, while simultaneously affirming its overall guidance for Q4. The letter, from Michelle Johnston Holthaus, GM of the Sales, Marketing, and Communications Group at Intel, acknowledges and apologizes for the yearlong PC supply shortage that …

  We’ve discussed the importance of right-to-repair legislation and the need to protect the right of consumers to modify and fix their own equipment a number of times at ET, but we’ve always tackled the topic from a civilian consumer perspective. According to a recent op/ed by Captain Elle Ekman, …

  PayPal announced today it has agreed to acquire Honey Science Corporation, the makers of a deal-finding browser add-on and mobile application, for $4 billion, mostly cash. The acquisition, which is PayPal’s largest to date, will give the payments giant a foothold earlier in the customer’s shopping journey. Instead of …

Facebook’s NPE Team, a division inside the social networking giant that will build experimental consumer-facing social apps, has now added a third app to its lineup with the launch of meme creation app Whale. Currently, the app allows users to decorate photos with text and stickers in order to create …

  Twitter’s radical “Hide Replies” feature, one of the biggest changes to how Twitter works since the invention of the Retweet, is now available to Twitter’s global user base. The company says the feature will roll out to all Twitter users across platforms by today, with only one slight tweak …

  Verizon was the first US carrier to make a big push into 5G network technology. Its rival ATT has had 5G almost as long, but customers still can’t buy 5G devices on ATT’s network. Verizon, meanwhile, is loading its lineup with as many 5G phones as possible. Now, you …

  Apple has long positioned itself as a seller of premium electronics, and it commands a correspondingly high price for its phones, laptops, and desktops because of it. The MacBook Pro line has won fans, but many of those fans began questioning their allegiance to the brand a few years …