As if there wasn’t reason enough to be a fan of Canonical and its Ubuntu flavor of Linux (Unity aside), the company announced that it has joined forces with the Humble Indie Bundle (HIB) to bot...
In an unsurprising and yet wholly unsettling twist, it has emerged that Stuxnet — the virus that sabotaged part of the Iranian uranium enrichment program — was developed by the US and Isr...
Of all the CPUs launched in the past decade, none has been as puzzling as AMD’s Bulldozer. While it’s been widely derided as AMD’s version of Intel’s Pentium 4 Prescott, even ...
Computer monitors are much like any other piece of technology: they range in price and quality from bottom-of-the-barrel junk to professional pieces that cost 10x as much and have a set of features a...
Late yesterday, Microsoft released the Windows 8 Release Preview, the new Release Candidate. Its headline features are improved multi-monitor support, IE10 with built-in Flash (even in Metro), and a ...
Microsoft has announced the immediate availability of Windows 8 Release Preview. Unfortunately there isn’t a Consumer Preview > Release Preview upgrade path — you’ll have to format ...
Google once led us to believe that paying for search inclusion was a bad thing. Times have changed though, and that could have far reaching implications.As reported by Marketing Land’s Danny Su...
The Cadillac User Experience (CUE) is GM’s best shot at catching up to Ford Sync and MyFord Touch. In the new Cadillac XTS, CUE comprises a glass cockpit with touchscreen, voice control, three USB ja...
After months of being teased by the China-only Lenovo K800 and the India-only Xolo X900, the Western world is finally getting a piece of the Intel Atom-powered Android smartphone action: The Orange S...
Intel may have officially launched its new 22nm Ivy Bridge CPUs last month, but this morning’s ultrabook announcement is the chip’s real debut. The new IVB processors are at the center of...
The University of Nebraska’s NIMBUS Lab has developed unmanned quadcopters that can fly around and wirelessly transmit power to devices. Ostensibly these UAVs have the rather unromantic purpose...
Google has been adding new monetization features to the Play Store over time, and one of the more contentious is, of course, the in-app purchase. You know how it goes; an app is free and things are g...
A bioelectronic engineer, Klas Tybrandt of Linkoping University in Sweden, has built the first “ion transistor” computer chip, which uses chemical ions and biological molecules as charge ...
Thanks to some diligent detective work performed by Android Police, we now have (non-official) confirmation that Google is working with Asus to produce a 7-inch tablet called the Nexus 7. Under the h...
After all this time, Sprint is finally ready to let go of the Nextel iDEN platform that it acquired when it purchased Nextel Communications in 2005.With last week’s FCC approval of 3G and 4G de...
LG has unveiled a new smartphone display that packs a 1920×1080 resolution into a 5-inch screen. The display, which is based on what LG calls Advanced High Performance In-Plane Switching (AH-IPS...
Anyone who has ever watched an episode of any of the Star Trek television shows has wanted a replicator in their home. Honestly, who doesn’t want the ability to create anything from delicious f...
Howie Choset, a rambunctious roboticist who has been working on snake-like robots for decades at Carnegie Mellon University, has developed a new, ultra-slim snakebot that can crawl inside a small inc...
When you think “cutting edge technology,” chances are you don’t think of the automotive industry. Until quite recently, the center stack in most vehicles had scarcely changed in 20 ...
With today being Memorial Day in the United States, we thought we’d do something a bit different than simply running through the daily news. We invite you to share your own stories of how you f...
The FCC has just approved an order amending the rules to the ESMR 800MHz spectrum that allows for 3G and 4G network technologies to be deployed on the band. For Sprint, this means that its subscriber...
In early 2011, the rumors were hard to ignore and it seemed inevitable that Google was going to get into the mobile payments business. It was one year ago that we got all the details. Google announce...
Tech wrecks often headline our daily news, mostly the result of operator error or equipment failure — generally they are “one-off” incidents which leave the front pages as quickly a...
It’s a well known fact that there’s nothing like a bit of graphing to brighten up a geek’s day. This seems to be well understood by a Reddit user that goes by the name of “Tha...
The Nissan Altima puts the $1500 navigation system on the endangered species list when the 2013 model ships in a couple weeks. The Altima will offer real navigation for $595 and a tech package with n...
It’s been several months since the flood waters in Thailand began receding and since ExtremeTech posted its last edition of HDD PriceWatch, but we’ve finally begun to see more stable pric...
Yahoo is taking a baby step into the browser wars with the release of its own search-centric browser. Known as Axis, it comes in the form of a plugin for HTML5 compliant browsers on the desktop and a...
For those of you who haven’t seen Waking Life, lucid dreaming is the ability to remain aware during the heavier REM sleep stages and exert a measure of control over dreams. Some people are able...
Here at ExtremeTech we’ve talked fairly extensively about Windows 8, particularly about how the changes coming to the operating system will affect longtime Windows users. This certainly remains...
One of the particularly annoying pain points for travelers who want to use Verizon Wireless’ 4G LTE service is that none of the handsets offered by the carrier include global GSM and WCDMA (UMT...
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