If your business lives and dies by Google search engine results — if you at least in part make money based on Google search results — this news is for you. Google just announced it is in the process of implementing a major change to its core search algorithm that could change results rankings for […]

Recently, a friend told me he wanted to spend more time using Twitter, but he didn’t quite know how. His primary interest is comedy, he told me, and he hoped to find a way to see comedians’ best jokes on Twitter as they were posted. But when he followed comedians, he mostly saw a lot […]

Google’s Play Store is home to millions of useful apps, but isn’t always safe from software that hosts malware and obnoxious adware. Recently, the company has been attempting to clean up the Play Store and use it to push security updates. Untrustworthy app developers have found themselves in Google’s cross hairs, with major developers being […]

How would you feel if your phone’s wallpaper displayed a running tally of the number of times you unlock your device every day? Ashamed? Indifferent? If you’ve got an Android phone, Google is now giving you that option — plus other new initiatives that are part of the company’s ongoing Digital Wellbeing effort.

The drum beat for an Apple augmented reality headset is growing louder. Bloomberg claims Apple has “targeted” a 2020 release for its AR eyewear, echoing analyst Ming-Chi Kuo’s expectations based on his own sources. The publication also shares a belief that the headset will sync with your iPhone to deliver messages, maps and games to […]

Back in June, Firefox launched Enhanced Tracking Protection, a feature that tries to protect your privacy by blocking more than a thousand third-party trackers by default. With its latest update, which you can download today, Firefox now provides a dashboard that details exactly how the browser goes about protecting your personal information.