From PC Mag: Google on Thursday announced that its Web browser will soon block autoplay videos that have sound. The new policy is slated to go into effect this January as part of Chrome 64.

"Starting in Chrome 64, autoplay will be allowed when either the media won't play sound, or the user has...

From CNET: These fake apps were free, but they ended up costing millions of people using Android.

Researchers from Check Point, a security company, said Thursday that they discovered 50 apps hiding malware on the Google Play Store. The malware was downloaded between 1 million and 4.2 million times...

From The Verge: A headphone jack might not have been essential enough to be part of the Essential Phone itself, but the company has confirmed it’s working on a module that includes one. “We are actively developing a high end audio accessory to support a 3.5mm jack,” the Essential team said during a...

From PC Mag: Yesterday, we got to watch the latest Nintendo Direct presentation and no one really knew what to expect. Nintendo's hardware focus right now is on the Switch$299.99 at Amazon and we've already had the 2DS XL launch earlier this year, so surely this Direct would be all about software...

From The Verge: The Essential Phone’s reviews might be turning out more mixed than Andy Rubin and his team would’ve wanted, but now it’s time for consumers around the US to see the Android smartphone up close. Sprint has announced that beginning tomorrow, September 14th, the Essential Phone will be...

From CNET: The season for phone announcements is upon us, and Google is jumping in.

A page from Google teases "Thinking about changing phones?" with a blank space and a date set for October 4. It's exactly one year from when the company announced its first flagship phone, the Pixel and the Pixel XL...

From The Verge: Microsoft has been gradually tweaking its Windows 10 privacy controls this year. The software giant addressed some initial concerns in the Windows 10 Creators Update with simplified data collection levels, and eventually revealed what data Windows 10 really collects in April...

From PC Mag: Yesterday was an expensive day for anyone living within the Apple ecosystem. You're probably going to want an iPhone X, which will cost at least $999, and at least $1,198 if you plan on getting AppleCare+. And if the iPhone X is out of your price range, you're still going to want an...

From CNET: Ten years ago, Steve Jobs stood on a stage in San Francisco and promised, "Apple is going to reinvent the phone."

That turns out to have been the understatement of the decade.

Though Apple certainly wasn't the first to make a mobile phone, or even the first to use touchscreen technology...

From PC Mag: When it comes to retro consoles, Nintendo has been acting a lot like a Snorlax: sleeping and not paying attention to what is going on around it. But it seems the Japanese company is finally waking up to the potential of its own retro consoles, and that's very good news for gamers...