How The Demand For Faster Computers Led To Meltdown And Spectre
The issues surrounding Meltdown and Spectre are immense and complicated, but here’s one way of understanding it.

January 19, 2018 at 04:02PM
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VR’s Hit Social App Is a Dank Meme-Soaked Chat Room
Logging into VRChat the first time feels like the beginning of every cyberpunk horror story I read or watched in the 1990s, right down to the bad graphics.

January 19, 2018 at 10:05AM
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What the newest laptops tell us about 2018 trends
At CES 2018, the laptops showcased give us some hints at what’s to come for the rest of the year.

January 19, 2018 at 07:45AM
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A Popular Algorithm Is No Better at Predicting Crimes Than Random People
The COMPAS tool is widely used to assess a defendant’s risk of committing more crimes, but a new study puts its usefulness into perspective.

January 18, 2018 at 06:20PM
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A Popular Algorithm Is No Better at Predicting Crimes Than Random People
The COMPAS tool is widely used to assess a defendant’s risk of committing more crimes, but a new study puts its usefulness into perspective.

January 18, 2018 at 06:20PM
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Buying headphones in 2018 is going to be a fragmented mess
Where we once had the solid reliability of a 3.5mm analog connector working with any jack shaped to receive it, there’s now a divergence of digital alternatives and a bunch of wireless codecs and standards to keep track of.

January 18, 2018 at 04:12PM
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Driver Has An Absurdly Frustrating Interaction With His Car’s Voice GPS
We’re not sure how this guy’s “home” turned into “Chinese restaurant,” but hey, we don’t design these voice systems.

January 18, 2018 at 03:09PM
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Google’s Fuchsia OS on the Pixelbook: It works! It actually works!
Google currently has two OSes on the market: Android and Chrome OS. The company is never one to leave a successful product alone in the marketplace, though, so it’s also developing a third operating system called “Fuchsia.”

January 18, 2018 at 03:09PM
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How Moving Images Work, Explained With A Slow Motion Camera And A Macro Lens
Those Slow Mo Guys are at it again, this time with an informative video on how our televisions and displays are able to fool our eyes into seeing motion and color with nothing more than three colors and a single line.

January 18, 2018 at 10:54AM
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Pyramid schemes target Snapchat teens
Snapchatters have discovered pyramid schemes, and it’s going just as well as you’d expect.

January 18, 2018 at 10:42AM
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