4+ day, 7+ hour ago   (711+ words) Qualcomm is taking an unusual approach to the launch of its next-generation premium Snapdragon mobile platform this year. Instead of holding everything for its annual Snapdragon Summit in Maui happening later this month, the company has been methodically disclosing the…...

4+ day, 23+ hour ago   (596+ words) Twenty-five years ago, I sat near the front of the room while then-Apple CEO Steve Jobs rolled out Apple’s digital hub strategy, a vision in which the Mac would become the central manager of all manner of portable digital devices....

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (481+ words) An important but potentially fragile trend is emerging in the data being reported by smartphone industry trackers: while painful component price increases are denting overall phone sales, the iPhone’s market share continues to increase. This likely reflects two key truths:…...

2+ week, 4+ hour ago   (679+ words) When you think of AI, and Nvidia’s GPUs often come to mind because they have been so much a part of the ongoing AI revolution. But at the recent Hot Chips show in California, an alternative future appears to be…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (1084+ words) The tech industry faced something of a reckoning in late 2022 with the arrival of OpenAI’s ChatGPT, a simple chatbot that could answer questions, seemingly by magic. The early frontier large language models (LLMs) from OpenAI and rivals like Anthropic and…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (503+ words) After a week of using Google’s new Pixel 11 phones, two seemingly at-odds realities are crystal clear in my mind: Interestingly enough, these two realities manage to exist harmoniously — because they’re both very much accurate and very much true. The real…...

1+ mon, 1+ day ago   (653+ words) Starting at $1,299 with 256GB of storage, the Pixel 11 Pro XL features a 6.8-in. Super Actua LTPO OLED display, Google’s new Tensor G6 processor, a 5115mAh battery and an updated triple-camera system. Google also pledges seven years of operating system, Android security and Pixel…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (376+ words) In recent months, hints emerged concerning Apple’s plans to introduce camera-equipped AirPods Pro; the cameras would be designed to pick up details of your ambient surroundings and feed information to Siri to help you with your life. At one point,…...

4+ week, 50+ min ago   (758+ words) AI-based assistants and agents are generally supposed to expedite software development lifecycles. For Microsoft’s Exchange team, it may be doing the opposite, in turn leaving enterprise IT teams waiting for an update that will require extensive compatibility testing before implementation....

1+ mon, 4+ hour ago   (172+ words) Today, embedded systems are so common that you’d have a hard time looking in any direction without seeing a device which contains one – if you know where to look. Lately, a movement toward embedded as a platform is creating new…...