From The Verge: Facebook began testing a new home for news in its mobile app today called Facebook News. It will roll out to a few hundred thousand users in the United States and host reporting from big publishers, including The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and BuzzFeed. Facebook is paying some...

From CNET: Wireless is where it's at for Verizon. Just look at the company's most recent quarterly results. The company continues to rack up new wireless customers as it goes city by city to roll out 5G. But all this growth is coming from its traditional 4G LTE service, as the company continues to...

From PC Mag: Intel's chip shortage for PCs will last longer than anticipated. The company now expects the supply issues to persist through the fourth quarter and possibly into 2020.

Intel has been trying to resolve the chip shortage, which began last year, by investing in more manufacturing...

From The Verge: Twitter says more than 50 percent of tweets identified as abusive are now being flagged by its automated moderation tools first and taken down before a user reports them. Improvements in its machine learning model for identifying problematic tweets enabled the faster moderation...

From PC Mag: f you've decided to give the Galaxy S10 a miss and wait for the inevitable Galaxy S11, we have some good news! Samsung just announced the mobile chip it will most likely use in its next flagship phone and it's 20 percent faster.

At the Samsung Tech Day 2019, the company unveiled two...

From CNET: Hey, Apple TV app, welcome to Amazon's Fire TV. Amazon announced that starting today, Apple's app is now available for download to Amazon Fire TV devices, namely the Fire TV streaming stick and Fire TV Stick 4K. Amazon says the app is coming soon to additional Fire TV devices, including...

From The Verge: Huawei’s much-delayed folding phone, the Mate X, is finally going on sale next month. The company announced the news at a launch event today attended and reported on by Sina Digital.

The Mate X is a 5G phone with Huawei’s Kirin 980 processor and Barong 5000 modem, and it has a dual...

From PC Mag: One of the new, desirable features of the Pixel 4 and Pixel 4 XL is the inclusion of an OLED display with a 90Hz refresh rate, which promises a very smooth Android experience. However, it's been discovered the refresh reverts to just 60Hz when the screen brightness is lowered.

As...

From CNET: Huawei is keen to remind the world that the US ban isn't holding it back. The controversial company shipped 200 million phones two months earlier than it did in 2018, it said Wednesday, the same day its Mate X foldable phone launched in China.

Its release puts this success down to the...

From The Verge: Google is piloting its Duplex service outside of the US for the first time, with a new trial to confirm holiday opening hours in New Zealand. Starting this week, the company says its AI-powered voice assistant will be calling up a “small number of local businesses” to ask about their...