Star Trek: The technology won, but Roddenberry's visionary society lost
Star Trek: Discovery, which premieres in its second season this week, is a dark show for dark times, with flawed and imperfect characters. Just like Roddenberry himself.
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Diet iPhone: Could a new formula refresh Apple's bottom line?
Cupertino needs a "just right" mobile device for an upgrade-averse generation that has the same great taste but is less filling.
Sick and disgusted: The worst tech failures of 2018
It was a rough year for the technology industry: From anxiety-inducing social networks and buggy mobile devices to glitchy operating systems and killer driverless cars, we had it all.
Sensored to death: How machine learning in the cloud will destroy all privacy
The combination of IoT sensors and data lakes become a powerful tool for pattern analysis, but has serious privacy implications for the consumer and the employee in the workplace.
Paranoia will destroy us: Why Huawei and other Chinese tech is not spying on Americans
The notion that the Chinese government would spy on corporations and US agencies with electronic devices manufactured by Chinese companies is not only absurd but would be catastrophic to furthering its ambitions in world trade.
Why iCloud makes the Apple retail store experience a total mess
Apple's consumer cloud storage doesn't just make backing up your device inconvenient. It also makes for a very negative in-store experience.
Marijuana means business: Everything you need to know about the cannabis industry
With the legal status of medical and recreational marijuana in constant flux, and varying wildly from state to state, the opportunities and risks of this market are mind-alteringly complex. Here are the basics.
Is Red Hat IBM's 'Hail Mary' pass?
Opinion: Armonk's $34 billion acquisition of the Raleigh, N.C.-based open source, Linux, and Cloud vendor may be its last chance to return the company to a leadership position in the technology industry.
iPhone XS, iPad Pro and Pixel 3: When your smartphone and tablet rocks but your network sucks
We now have a great crop of smartphones and tablets on the market with powerful processors but the key issue that seems to be ignored is 4G over-subscription.
Peak iPad Pro: The end of major advances?
This year's iPad Pro is a magnificent piece of technology. But it isn't everything we hoped for, and we may have hit peak advances with this year's model.
It's time for Microsoft to bring Windows 10 Mobile back from the dead
Recent antitrust developments in the EU could present an opportunity for a third mobile platform that never really had a chance to mature and develop an ecosystem when it first released.
Armed with Red Hat, IBM launches a cloud war against Amazon, Microsoft and Google
Make no mistake: What Big Blue wants to do is make its cloud more relevant.
Apple's new iPad Pro: Features and specs we're expecting
Apple's third-generation iPad Pro is likely to have important but incremental improvements over its predecessor and include technologies introduced in the iPhone X.
How Amazon and Microsoft will oust Google to become our next Android overlords
Google's Play Store hegemony for Android apps is no longer guaranteed, thanks to a recent antitrust judgment (and a $5B fine) from the European Union.
