Information Technology
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Review: The one killer feature that should've been in the latest iPhones, but probably never will
Oct 03, 2015 6:39 am - I've had a few days to play around with the iPhone 6S now, and by far the most engaging feature I've used has been Apple's Peek and Pop. Beyond the simple right-click ac...
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What Apple's revamped privacy policy website means for you
Oct 03, 2015 6:38 am - Fire up the new Apple News service for the first time on your iPhone, and it'll ask for your favorite topics and news outlets. Use it over time, and you'll find that it ...
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Twitter said to be considering plus-size tweet, above 140-character limit
Oct 03, 2015 6:37 am - In August, Twitter announced that it was ditching the 140-character limit on direct messages, the so-called "private side" of the social media giant that lets users comm...
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Everyone you know will be able to rate you on 'Yelp for people'
Oct 03, 2015 6:36 am - You can already rate restaurants, hotels, movies, college classes, government agencies and bowel movements online. So the most surprising thing about Peeple - basically ...
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Don't feel bad if you fell for the Facebook copyright hoax
Oct 03, 2015 6:36 am - We may have stopped forwarding them years ago, but the chain email never really died: It just migrated to Facebook, where its copy-paste offspring continue spreading rum...
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Amazon Flex: Retailer's Uber-like effort to bring you packagesOct 03, 2015 6:35 am - Editor's note: Amazon chief executive Jeffrey Bezos owns The Washington Post. Amazon.com said this week that it is building its own network of delivery couriers th...
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Apple sells 13 million iPhones in their opening weekend
Oct 03, 2015 6:34 am - Did you buy a new iPhone this weekend? You were not alone. Apple announced on Monday that it had sold a whopping 13 million of its iPhone 6s and 6s Plus in their first w...
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Google announces new Nexus phones, a new tablet and lots of updates
Oct 03, 2015 6:33 am - Google showed off a wide range of new devices and services on Tuesday in a jam-packed news conference that revealed its fall lineup of products. Here is a quick rundown ...
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App reviews: Two Dots, Paper
Oct 03, 2015 6:00 am - Two Dots is a puzzle game - the follow-up to Betaworks' other game, Dots - in which players are asked to join strings of colored spots on a grid. But it's so much more t...
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Smack talk is cheap: .sucks domains are going for 99 cents a year
Oct 03, 2015 5:38 am - We've all heard the stories about big, famous people like Taylor Swift and Mark Zuckerberg buying up Web addresses ending in. sucks. But now low-level peons like you and...