From PC World: Google made a splash earlier this week with a new Assistant-powered shopping initiative seemingly aimed at chipping away at Amazon’s dominance, and now it has a new target in its sights: Venmo.

Starting today, you’ll be able to use your iPhone or Android phone to send money to anyone...

From CNET: The Samsung Galaxy S9 and Galaxy S9 Plus have scarcely been on sale for a week and already some Galaxy S9 owners are reporting dead zones.

Numerous complaints on the official Samsung forums and all over Reddit (here, here and here) describe how portions of the screen won't respond to...

From The Verge: Vivo has announced its latest flagship phone, the V9, and no surprises — there’s a notch. The V9 has a 6.3-inch 2280 x 1080 LCD with a 19:9 aspect ratio; Vivo says the notch helps achieve a screen-to-body ratio of 90 percent.

The V9’s spec sheet is pretty standard, for the most part...

From CNET: It's going to get harder for Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei to sell its smartphones in the US.

Best Buy, the nation's largest electronics retailer, has ceased ordering new smartphones from Huawei and will stop selling its products over the next few weeks, according to a person...

From PC World: Nvidia’s Highlights and Ansel technologies make GeForce graphics cards more fun. At GDC 2018, they’re debuting in games like Tekken 7, Star Wars Battlefront II, and Call of Duty to help you spread your most glorious gaming moments to the world.

Highlights was formerly called...

From The Verge: OnePlus 6 speculation is slowly revving up. Someone on Weibo today leaked what could be the phone’s actual specs and pricing details, and they indicate OnePlus’ next phone could have some very high-end specs — with a relatively high-end price to match.

This leaker says the OnePlus 6...

From PC World: AMD has acknowledged the Ryzenfall vulnerabilities discovered by CTS-Labs, though the chip company believes the flaws can be patched via BIOS updates issued over the next few weeks.

In a blog post authored by AMD’s chief technical officer, Mark Papermaster, AMD confirmed that the...

From CNET: A Facebook investor is suing the social networking giant for allegedly misleading investors over the scandal involving Cambridge Analytica, the data analytics firm accused of misusing the personal data of millions of Facebook users.

The lawsuit, filed Tuesday in San Francisco federal...

From The Verge: Samsung is bringing its latest rugged tablet to the US, with an eye toward selling it to companies that send workers outdoors, to industrial locations, or to areas with bad weather. The Galaxy Tab Active 2 (Samsung styles with as “Active2” — I don’t know why) was announced last year...

From PC Mag: Curious whether an Android game is worth the download? Google is expanding its "instant apps" concept to mobile games to allow for lightning-fast previews of popular titles.

These "instant apps" let you play a portion of the game before committing to a full download. Want to check out...