Mark Zuckerberg’s “accountability moment” has come and gone, and little has changed.  Facebook promises to be more responsible with its trove of information about you — we’ll see what that means. And its users have stayed with the service — how could they not, given its monopoly power? The stock market has blithely restored all the loss it imposed on Facebook when the Cambridge Analytica […]

Tesla’s electric car for the masses is looking more and more like a luxury vehicle. The Tesla Model 3, long billed as a mass-market compact sedan, technically carries a starting price of $35,000, though you can’t get it that cheap right now. You can, however, soon get a $78,000 Model 3. Tesla CEO Elon Musk revealed specifications for […]

A few weeks ago, the United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) issued an alert about state-supported Russian hackers carrying out attacks against a large number of home routersin the U.S. These hackers are organized, motivated, and well-funded. They’re not a bunch of misanthropic nerds sitting in basements. They’re getting paid to steal your digital credentials. […]

LOS ANGELES — For years, many of us have gone to Google Drive to backup our files. Others have been subscribing to the Google-owned YouTube Red subscription service. Both services had major, confusing changes announced this week, along with YouTube Music, which is set to launch a new (get this) YouTube Music service, not to […]

The field is growing, with rivals like Apple, Google, Alibaba and Xiaomi stepping up their businesses. The smart speaker competition is heating up. Amazon shipped a whopping 4 million smart speakers during the first quarter of 2018, but rising competition from the likes of Google and Apple has cut its global smart speaker share nearly in half […]

The OnePlus 6 got its big unveiling at a London press event Wednesday, riding a wave of anticipation, carefully tailored hints on social media — and a few unplanned leaks. With this latest offering, the company hopes that its relatively affordable flagship will lure people away from expensive marquee phones like the Galaxy S9 and iPhone X. Known primarily by Android enthusiasts, OnePlus […]

The Samsung Galaxy S9 and Galaxy S9 Plus are the fastest phones ever in terms of supported Internet speeds, according to a new research conducted by wireless analytics company Ookla. The firm’s latest speed test indicates that Samsung’s Android flagships outperform all of their rivals by up to 42-percent in the context of downloading and […]

President Donald Trump said in a tweet Sunday that he’s working to give China’s ZTE “a way to get back into business, fast.” ZTE (ZTCOF), a smartphone and telecom equipment maker that does business around the world, announced last week that it has halted its main operations after the Trump administration banned American companies from selling it vital […]

Apple is facing a class action lawsuit over the design of its MacBook and MacBook Pro keyboards which, consumers complain, has keys that are prone to becoming stuck. The lawsuit follows a litany of complaints across user forums, specialist mediaand a petition with over 21,000 signatures urging Apple to recall the Mac laptops released since late 2016. “Because of […]

Chinese smartphone manufacturer ZTE, the subject of a seven year U.S. export ban, recently said that it had to close up shop because of its inability to source software, components and hardware from the U.S. But the phone and network equipment maker, who the U.S. accused of spying on American citizens and corporations on behalf of the Chinese government, […]