Technology

  Intel announced its Q3 earnings results with very strong numbers and an acknowledgment that the company is still facing constraints on its 14nm business. Intel smashed guidance in Q3 2019, beating Q3 revenue expectations by $1.2B, with $19.2B in revenue. According to CEO Bob Swan, Intel has made significant …

  Just when you think you’ve got a great mobile computing solution, something always comes along to upset the apple cart. In my case, it was mostly drones — more specifically, the 4K footage from my Mavic Pro drones. In addition to the added compute demands of rendering and encoding …

  Camera maker RED garnered attention a few years back when it announced it would release its first Android smartphone. Who wouldn’t want a RED-style camera in a smartphone? However, building phones turned out to be much harder than RED anticipated. After promising a revamped RED Hydrogen phone several months …

  Last year, at Intel Architecture Day, the company unveiled a unique chip called Lakefield. Lakefield blends a single high-end Ice Lake CPU core with four low-power cores built on a new iteration of Intel’s low-power architecture, codenamed Tremont. This is the first time we’ve seen Intel debut a blended …

  Beginning with the original Google Chromebook Pixel, Google’s higher-end ChromeOS hardware has always been impressive, but it came with price tags to match. With the new Pixelbook Go, Google is aiming closer to a mid-market sweet spot for a personal ultralight laptop. A starting price of $650 puts it …

  TCL is the company behind Blackberry and Alcatel smartphones, but TCL itself is most closely associated with TVs right now. It has only just started making phones under the TCL brand, and it’s doing some interesting things with foldable phones. After announcing its “DragonHinge” mechanism earlier this year (pictured …

  Google built the Android platform on openness and partnerships with device makers, and that has helped make it the most popular computing platform in the world. However, Google has also struggled to get OEMs to update their phones in a timely manner. It’s tried numerous ways to speed up …

  Motorola announced the Moto G7 series earlier this year, and we were expecting another revision of its budget-oriented phones in early 2020. It’s not waiting that long, though. Motorola just unveiled the Moto G8 Plus along with the even cheaper E6 Play in Europe. The G8 plus has more …

  Cellular companies in the United States have a significant problem where 5G is concerned. In other countries, 5G is being deployed in lower frequency bands (sub-6GHz), where the problems with range are much less significant. In the United States, all of the 5G rollouts to date have been in …

  Last month, the quantum computing world lit up with the news that Google might have achieved quantum supremacy. A draft version of a paper surfaced on NASA’s website claiming this but was quickly yanked offline. Now, the final version of the same paper has run in Nature, making a …