…Qualcomm is aggressively predicting longer battery life, moving from "all day" to "multi-day." Given that "all day," in manufacturer parlance, typically means "6-10 hours," I'd be thrilled to see…
…An unlocked bootloader allows installation of custom ROMs, as an alternative to the manufacturer’s official version. HTC, after briefly flirting with locking down its bootloaders, has announced that it will leave…
…Anodization is a process that creates a much thicker layer of aluminium oxide (a few microns; a few thousand times thicker than normal oxidation). Anodization also tends to create a bumpy texture…
…Instead of building motherboards that could handle two channels and simply disabling one when using Carrizo-L, several manufacturers opted to limit Carrizo to a single channel in the first place. That…
…The need for warehouse managers, public agricultural engineers, and academic advisers is about to plummet right alongside the more traditionally threatened sectors like customer service and manufacturing. DeepMind's AlphaGo AI amazing…
…In DRAM, the memory read process is destructive and removes the charge on an entire row when data is accessed. This doesn't happen with UK III-V; the device can be…
…Nothing about their provenance or the process by which they were communicated to the press changes that. But we'd be remiss if we didn't note the perplexing nature of how…
…GPU manufacturers aren't required to match each other on every feature, but customers typically want to see equivalent value. We'll have to see if the RX 5700 and 5700 XT…
…Intel and AMD haven't previously had to be concerned with what non-x86 CPU manufacturers were doing. If Apple's M1 and inevitable follow-ups for different market segments start bleeding…
…Microsoft continues to manufacture the dominant OS of the desktop and notebook world, but its biggest focus and self-described opportunities are in applications and the cloud. Android and Linux are both…