Mike Magee

Opinion: Hue. And cryTech readers up on stuff will know that earlier this month Philips discontinued support for its first Hue bridge - V1, so its app no longer works. Or anything. It means you have to spend quite a lot more. Hue is called “Signify” now, which signifies nothing and involve...

Where have you been all this time? Sony's spinoff – the Vaio Corporation – has released two notebook PCs, after an absence from the main European markets for a number of years.  The Vaio SX14 and the A12 weigh 1,000 grams and 999 grams respectively, with both PCs built in Japan but distribu...

Review It was only towards the end of her life that film star Hedy Lamarr was acknowledged as being the co-inventor of technology that underlies technologies including GPS, wi-fi and Bluetooth. A film about her life – Bombshell – has gone on general release in the UK today but my feeling is it...

Deja vuChip giant Intel said at its Developer Forum in San Francisco that it will license ARM technology and offer smartphone makers the chance to make microprocessors using its 10 nanometer fabrication technique. This is quite an irony, given that it’s ARM technology that’s damaged Intel’s credibil...

AMD’s Raja Koduri joins Intel

Because it canA report claimed that Apple has reduced the accuracy of the Face ID feature that was supposed to be one of the key elements of its upcoming iPhone X. Bloomberg claimed that the feature, supposed to be used to sign on to the phone and to make payments, has been modified because it is ha...

Your car can be stolen, it seemsA report from Norwegian app security company Promon claims that cyber crooks can hack into Tesla cars. The hack means, according to Promon, that complete control of a vehicle, including locating it, opening the door and switching on its keyless driving. Tom Lysemose H...

Opinion It’s on some kind of a roll - bacon roll, sausage roll?It takes a lot of money to make and sell microprocessors  - it always has done and it probably always will, but it seems to some that Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) is burning an awful lot of that rare commodity. That’s according to a...