Technology

  I love traveling overseas, but no matter how often I do it, I still dread those moments where I’m trying to communicate with someone who doesn’t understand English or the tiny bits of a couple of other languages I try as a last resort. So I was quite enthusiastic …

  The web service company Ookla, owners of Speedtest.net, has published a detailed report on internet speeds across tribal lands in North America. (Disclosure: ExtremeTech and Ookla are both owned by Ziff Davis). Mobile and wireline performance are both discussed, with data given for the fastest and slowest reservation/reserves in …

  Ever since the disclosure of side-channel attacks like Spectre and Meltdown, the semiconductor industry in general and Intel in particular have been grappling with the security problems this class of attacks creates. While these ongoing attacks have mostly been discussed in terms of what they mean for Intel, the …

  Last week, Microsoft and AMD announced that a new AMD APU would power the 15-inch Surface Laptop intended for the consumer market (there’s also an Ice Lake variant built for corporations). It’s a unique chip, with 11 Vega graphics units in a 15W TDP, when all of AMD’s other …

  Last week, we brought you a quick bit of information on Intel’s upcoming Cascade Lake refresh for the High-End DeskTop (HEDT) and Xeon W markets. These chips, as we previously discussed, are a major improvement on their predecessors in price. Performance gains are a bit more workload-dependent, but there …

  With the RX 5700 and 5700 XT in-market since June, it was inevitable that AMD would refresh the lower end of its product family. Big Navi may not drop until 2020, but there’s plenty of room at the lower end of the market for a major refresh cycle. Since …

  Amazon’s Fire tablets advance at a crawl. Each generation makes such minor changes it’s almost impossible to tell them apart. However, the latest update to the Fire HD 10 is unusually substantial. Not only does it come with a faster processor and better battery life, it finally makes the …

  Apache’s HTTP web server is one of the most widely used web servers available today. The software is free and open-source, and it comes with a rich set of features. The Apache HTTP web server is also highly versatile; it’s used by many large international companies, including Apple, Baidu, …

  Samsung’s Galaxy Fold is finally available after months of redesigning and tweaking to address durability issues. The first real foldable phone on the market is still more fragile than your average smartphone — Samsung filled the packaging with warnings about that. Naturally, people are trying to figure out how …

  Another day, another security exploit report from Google’s Project Zero team. This time, the vulnerability is in the company’s own Android operating system, which will no doubt please Apple. The exploit affects a handful of phones from Google, Samsung, Huawei, and others. Google also notes there is evidence the …