From PC Mag: Intel has a permanent Chief Executive Officer once again. Following a seven-month search for a new top brass following the resignation of former CEO Brian Krzanich, the chipmaker on Thursday announced it had appointed Bob Swan to take the helm and serve on Intel's board.

Swan has been...

From CNET: Microsoft is helping you battle fake news on your phone: Its Edge browser now tells you how reliable sites are.

The company started installing the NewsGuard plug-in -- which you previously had to download manually -- on all mobile versions of the browser, as reported by The Guardian...

From ComputerWorld: Microsoft this week told the remaining users of Internet Explorer 10 (IE10) that it would cut off support years earlier than promised, saying it would end security updates for the browser in January 2020.

IE11 will replace IE10 on systems running Windows Server 2012.

"Starting...

From The Verge: Next month’s Mobile World Congress is shaping up to be an interesting one for LG, with the South Korean company now rumored to be unveiling two handsets at the show: the LG G8 ThinQ and a second, higher-end, 5G-enabled device, possibly the LG V50 ThinQ 5G.

This latter rumor comes...

From PC Mag: The Switch is exactly what Nintendo needed after the disaster that was the Wii U, but the hybrid console is starting to falter as sales forecasts have just been downgraded by millions of units.

As Bloomberg reports, Nintendo's profits for the last three months of 2018 were great...

From CNET: Snap, the company behind Snapchat, has invested in Australian game studio Prettygreat, according to filings to the Australian Securities and Investments Commission.

Prettygreat games was founded by Australian games industry heads Phil Larsen, Hugh Walters and and Luke Muscat. Muscat has...

From G.Skill Press Release: G.SKILL International Enterprise Co., Ltd. is exhilarated to announce new ultra-fast, ultra-high capacity Trident Z Royal DDR4 RGB memory specifications designed for use with the latest unlocked 28-core Intel® Xeon® W-3175X processor. Operating in hexa-channel with 6- or...

From PC Mag: Today, Samsung revealed that it has begun mass producing 1TB storage chips for smartphones. The embedded Universal Flash Storage (eUFS) 2.1 chips have appeared a mere four years after Samsung's first 128GB UFS chip. It also means smartphone makers can now offer double the storage...

From The Verge: If you were bombarded by spam calls and texts last year, you probably weren’t alone. A new report, spotted by The Wall Street Journal, reveals that Americans received 26.3 billion robocalls last year, up 46 percent from 2017. Spam monitoring service Hiya has been analyzing calls, and...

From CNET: Some Facebook users have been giving the social network access to their phone activity in exchange for money as part of a research project since 2016, according to a Tuesday report by TechCrunch.

Facebook, which critics say isn't doing enough to protect the privacy of its users, has been...