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Last year Apple managed to shrink photo file sizes dramatically so you could cram twice as many photos onto your iPhone. But hold on, because that might not be the only game in town. Google, Mozilla and others in a group called the Alliance for Open Media are working on a rival photo technology. In …

After acknowledging a major security flaw in modern smartphone chips, the head of one of those chip design companies is delivering more grim news. “The reality is there are probably other things out there like it that have been deemed safe for years,” Arm Holdings CEO Simon Segars said in an interview last week at CES 2018 in Las Vegas. …

Is it or isn’t it? There was some confusion when news first hit last week that researchers had found serious flaws, called Spectre and Meltdown, in many of the chips that power computers and phones. Yes, chips from Intel and Arm were affected, but what about chips from AMD?  AMD on Thursday put out a new statement that left no room …

Apple on Monday released an update to iOS, the software that runs iPhones and iPads, that fixes a major problem that haunted the processors in those devices.  The flaw, dubbed Spectre by the researchers who found it, made the silicon chips vulnerable to a hacking attack that could reveal secret information your devices normally keep locked down. The update comes …

If Microsoft could go back in time, I’ve a pretty good idea what would happen. CEO Satya Nadella would hand his younger self the code for Microsoft’s new Win32 on ARM emulator. It’s the missing piece of the puzzle that could finally let Microsoft build Windows phones, razor-thin tablets and tiny laptops that people might actually want to buy. It …

Microsoft wants its computers to be more nimble. Enlarge Image Qualcomm’s latest processors will be available for Windows 10 devices. Qualcomm To that goal, the Qualcomm announced at Microsoft’s Windows Hardware Engineering Community event on Wednesday that its Windows 10 devices will support the Snapdragon 835 processor, which you’ll see in many top-tier phones next year. The chip will be …

Sprint took the long way to get there, but the US carrier now has recovered from years of decline, the company’s overlord said Tuesday. Sprint reported stronger financial results Tuesday, most notably the net addition of 347,000 new customers lured by network improvements and the promise of halved phone bills compared with AT&T and Verizon, the mobile goliaths. Sprint was …

Huawei, like Apple, is one of the only phone brands that makes its own processors. And its latest one, the Kirin 960, looks to be a winner. Announced at a Shanghai press conference earlier today, a phone powered by the Kirin 960 wa put to the test against an iPhone 7 and a Samsung Galaxy Note 7, Android Central reports. …