From PC Mag: If you need a reminder of just how important the search business is to Google, look no further than the amount it pays Apple to be the default search engine on all iOS and macOS devices.

As 9To5Mac reports, an investment note crossed the desk of Philip Elmer-DeWitt yesterday, which...

From The Verge: Google has finally released a Wear OS app for YouTube Music, which could seem like welcome news for people who have been waiting for a way to play their music off Google’s streaming service after the company shut down Google Play Music on Wear OS in August 2020. But the new app comes...

From CNET: The heads of Apple, Google, Amazon, Microsoft and IBM are among the business leaders that met with President Joe Biden at the White House on Wednesday to discuss how the government and private sector can work together to improve the nation's cybersecurity, according to a senior...

From The Verge: Samsung has revealed its TVs can be remotely disabled if the company finds out the units have been stolen. The feature is called the “Television Block Function” and Samsung says it was recently activated in South Africa after a number of Samsung TVs were taken from a company...

From PC Mag: Fitbit on Wednesday announced the latest addition to its popular Charge line of fitness trackers. The Charge 5 offers a number of design improvements, as well as advanced health-monitoring features previously only available on the company's premium Sense smartwatch.

Priced at $179.99...

From CNET: A passenger's Samsung Galaxy A21 caught fire Monday inside the cabin of an Alaska Airlines flight after landing at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, forcing the crew to deploy the aircraft's evacuation slides to remove the flight's occupants.

The passenger's phone "overheated and...

From Thermaltake Press Release: Thermaltake is delighted to announce the release of high-quality and feature-rich headsets to the TT Gaming family - ARGENT H5 RGB 7.1 Surround Gaming Headset. Aiming at providing supreme sound performance, the ARGENT H5 RGB 7.1 Surround Gaming Headsets feature next...

From The Verge: Spotify is broadening the number of people who can offer subscription podcasts and have their shows play on its service. Today, the company announced that all US-based podcasters can use Anchor, its podcast creation and distribution platform, to sell subscriptions for exclusive...

From PC Mag: Facebook is testing voice and video calling from its main app. The feature aims to reduce the need to switch between Facebook and its standalone Messenger service.

As Bloomberg reports, users in several countries, including the US, can now make video and voice calls without leaving...

From CNET: One of the largest cryptocurrency thefts ever appears to have been resolved -- by the hacker. Poly Network, a decentralized finance platform, reported Monday that more than $600 million in cryptocurrency was stolen from its coffers through a code vulnerability.

Poly Network is a...