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You might think of Bluetooth as that handy radio technology that connects your phone to your wireless earbuds. But Intel has co-opted it to try to keep drones from falling out of the sky. The chipmaker has proposed a system called Open Drone ID with which the unmanned aircraft, whether piloted or flying under remote …

Intel has invented a new shape for solid state drives: the “ruler.” It’s a foot-long housing primarily for use in datacenters.  Intel describes its 32TB DC P4500 as “the world’s densest SSD.” By combining 32 of these “rulers” together you can hold up to 1 petabyte of data — that’s a thousand terabytes. The new design is intended to reduce …

The Samsung Galaxy 7 is reportedly at risk from hackers due to a microchip security flaw. The Meltdown vulnerability can be exploited to attack the Galaxy S7, researchers from Graz Technical University in Austria told Reuters on Wednesday. Samsung phones were previously thought to be immune to Meltdown, which is said to endanger most computing devices. The team will release …

Double the cores, double the fun! AMD’s highest-end processor jumps from 16 to 32 cores in the new Ryzen Threadripper 2990WX, based on AMD Zen+ architecture, slated to ship on Aug. 10. At the end of August, the current 16-core flagship, the 1950X, gets its 2nd-generation upgrade to the 2950X but a demotion to middle-of-the-line of AMD’s high-end processors. For …

Ready or not, here it comes. Blade’s Shadow desktop-in-the-cloud (but really focused on gaming) service that lets you play on any device makes its east coast debut next week, to be followed by a full rollout across the US in October. The company says it’s fixed a lot of problems that cropped up in its rocky California-only phase. Notably, it …

In June 2012, Microsoft announced its first Surface hybrid tablet. Not only was it the first of its kind, but the first hardware designed, built and sold by Microsoft to work seamlessly with the software giant’s Windows operation system.  Since then the company has built out its Surface hardware lineup to meet the needs of students and home and professional …

Qualcomm says Intel reneged on a promise to provide documents on its latest radio frequency components being used in recent Apple iPhones, but it still wants them. As part of its patent legal battle with Apple, Qualcomm filed a motion late last week in a San Jose, California, federal court to compel Intel to supply it with technical documents and …

Samsung is feeling the pain from the smartphone slowdown. The South Korean electronics giant on Monday reported a 6 percent rise in operating profit, its lowest profit growth in more than a year. It also logged a 4 percent increase in revenue as it benefited from continued strong demand for its memory chips, which are used in everything from phones …

Best Buy’s Black Friday in July sale is underway and ends tonight (Saturday) at 11.59 p.m. CT. It’s nothing like Amazon’s Prime Day or even Best Buy’s true Black Friday sale, but there are a handful of decent deals to be had. Here’s a quick look at the ones that caught our eyes. Several of these products are available for …

Apple appears to be making some big changes to the chips in its upcoming iPhones — and that could mean your next iPhone downloads data slower than rival Android devices. Qualcomm, a major supplier of 4G chips for smartphones, on Wednesday said it doesn’t expect to supply modems for any upcoming iPhones. “We believe Apple intends to solely use our …