Technology

Another data breach? Won’t someone please think of the children?

A new analysis of Apple’s A9X SoC has a few surprises — and some major configuration changes compared to the A9 inside the iPhone 6S and 6S Plus.

AMD’s new Radeon Crimson driver has a fan setting issue that could damage video cards — the company has pledged to release a hotfix today to address the problem.

Today is Cyber Monday, so loads of online retailers are still selling their goods at a massive discount. In fact, Amazon is launching new deals every five minutes, and Prime members get 30 minutes of early access to the lightning … Continue reading →

Quasars are one of astronomy’s most important tools — so why do so many of them seem to be winking out of the sky?

Panasonic’s 4K TV lineup is no longer made up entirely of mid- to high-end offerings as the company announced its first set of “value-priced” models for the U.S market last week, just ahead of the Black Friday shopping madness. It … Continue reading →

Do you find those blazing-fast MU-MIMO 802.11ac routers still too darn pokey? One start-up hopes to turn your light bulb into a data transfer connection capable of speeds 100 times faster than current Wi-Fi by 2020. The company, called Velmenni, … Continue reading →

Bethesda’s Fallout 4 is an all-around great game — but there’s one scene in particular that drives home the reality of surviving in a post-atomic apocalypse. It’s played for laughs, but it also resolves some long-standing questions about robots and … Continue reading →

Hollywood has been quite aggressive in trying to protect 4K video from piracy, but now it appears those efforts are faltering. Over the last few days, a wave of 4K video torrents have appeared online, evidently ripped from Netflix and … Continue reading →

The US and China can now call each other directly to avoid emergencies in space — and that’s a very good thing for the world.