I don’t feel the nostalgia some people do for their old tech: I don’t miss my old Palm Pilot, the Toshiba laptop I paid way too much for in the ’90s (the model name of which escapes me), my Canon Elan IIe film camera or any other hardware I’ve used over the years. So I …

Google packed a ton into its event, seemingly updating all of its products (or close) — phones, laptops, VR — as well as announcing a host of new ones. The phones also incorporate the latest version of Google’s mobile operating system, Android Oreo, which was unveiled at Google I/O in May.  The event began with CEO Sundar Pichai offering condolences on recent …

The analytics company IHS Markit on Tuesday issued its annual teardown of iPhone production costs, and if the estimate is correct what impresses me most is that the iPhone 8 Plus — with 32GB more memory, a more powerful processor, wireless charging and a slightly improved camera — only costs about $17.80 more to make. IHS Markit’s iPhone 8 Plus cost breakdown. …

Instagram now lets you whitelist groups of commenters on your posts to filter out the trolls — a much more efficient system for some people than the current blocking capabilities.  In a blog post Tuesday, the Facebook-owned photo- and video-sharing site delivered this flip-side to the push it began a year ago with blocking controls such as automatic filtering, blocking individual …

Now that they’re free, operating system updates are often just as much about fixing the underlying plumbing of a device as they are about adding new and notable features. That’s largely the case with MacOS 10.13, otherwise known as High Sierra.  For the most part, don’t expect jaw-dropping changes or totally new interfaces. Instead, you get new features such as …

iPhone 8 and iPhone X unveiled: Pictures, photos from the Apple event +47 more See all photos Another year, another iPhone. Maybe it’s getting to be a little ho-hum, but this is also the event that determines a lot of peoples’ phone-buying plans for the next 12 months. And then there’s the big device that’s been languishing for a while, …

Now playing: Watch this: Disney cuts the cord with Netflix 1:43 If your heart plummeted like mine did on Tuesday when Disney announced it would be creating its own streaming service and pulling its content from Netflix, you might be able to pick it up off the floor.  According to a Reuters report, Netflix Chief Content Officer Ted Sarandos says …

Laptops are getting lighter and thinner, which flies in the face of the need for more powerful graphics processing, at least for professionals. Powerful mobile workstations are heavy. They’ve long been supplemented by external GPUs to deliver extra power when docked, so at least your laptop is up to the job some of the time. But eGPUs traditionally use consumer …

Ryzen 3, AMD’s Jan Brady of processor lines, formally debuts today after a few weeks of everything-but-the-price reveals. It’s part of the processor segment served by the Intel Core i3 — a step up from cheap — but without an integrated graphics processor (IGP). AMD’s A series incorporates the company’s Polaris-generation of integrated graphics. Comparative specs AMD Ryzen 3 1300X …

Yesterday, the markets buzzed with news about Amazon filing for a trademark for a Blue Apron-like service to deliver ingredients and recipes on demand. Subsequently, a user of that service in Seattle checked in with GeekWire, essentially confirming the service’s existence. The kits are listed on Amazon, albeit with “Currently unavailable” listings. Per GeekWire, prices start at $15.99. Given Amazon’s …