It’s an exciting time for putting high-tech gear on your face. The next wave of headsets for virtual and augmented reality are almost here. Watch Update to learn about the first model of the Microsoft Hololens, now accepting preorders for $3,000 — that is, if you are a developer with an invitation. But you don’t …

If Donald Trump had his way, he’d happily light all those Kindle Fires and Fire TVs on fire. The front-running Republican candidate for the US presidency promises to take aim at Amazon, its founder Jeff Bezos and the entire media, if elected. “I have respect for Jeff Bezos, but he bought The Washington Post to have political influence, and I …

I love live music. Hearing music played by talented musicians is…wow, I wish that guy in front of me would stop talking. Anyway, to catch the nuances of your favourite…blimey, the acoustics on this side of the room are awful. Right, as I was saying…what? I said, AS I WAS SAYING…forget it, it’s too loud in here. Yes, there’s a …

Near twenty years ago, Christina Cyr and Linda Inagawa started working at Microsoft on the same day. All week they kept finding their new colleagues mixing them up, until on the Friday they finally met. They’ve been friends ever since — and now, they’ve teamed up to change the way mobile phones are designed. Cyr and Inagawa’s company is called …

Cables seem simple. Just plug them into the matching ports, and let the electrons flow. If you think of them as dumb copper wires, they seem completely interchangeable. Maybe not. As two people found out in recent months, the wrong cable could potentially fry your laptop. Benson Leung, a Google engineer, and Dieter Bohn, executive editor at The Verge, wound …

OK, so everyone in the wireless industry is talking about 5G. Why should I care? 5G aims to be 100 times faster than our current wireless technology and even speedier than what Google Fiber offers through a physical connection to the home. The incredible speeds and responsiveness achieved with 5G open up new possibilities, and the technology had people buzzing …

Next-generation wireless networks could well make your phone dramatically more powerful and transform everything from driving to entertainment. But to hear the industry players right now, you’d think the 5G revolution is just around the corner. It’s not. Today’s technology industry has a remarkable success rate developing new products and services that profoundly transform our lives. You’d be well advised …

It’s true, most audiophiles are older, 40-plus-year-old people, but that’s not to say there aren’t a lot of young audiophiles. A couple of years ago I met a 10-year-old audiophile at a hi-fi show when he walked right up to me and declared himself a loyal Audiophiliac reader. He peppered me with questions for a few minutes before his father …

Long before transistors and other electronics came along, calculators were large mechanical machines that performed mathematics through a series of gears and cylinders turning inside their boxy exteriors. The YouTube channel called the Numberphile got its hands on one such device called the “Millionaire,” and released a video Tuesday showing how it works. Related stories Born in 1980? A mathematical …

The Academy Awards might be a tightly scripted show, but that doesn’t mean mischief and mayhem don’t sneak in. Every year, it seems there’s at least one moment on the red carpet or during the actual ceremony when some carefully planned moment goes off course or a celebrity or two gives the tabloids yet another good reason to put them …