From CNET: Ride-hailing app Uber has lost an appeal against a ruling that its drivers should be classed as workers instead of self-employed.

Uber's appeal was rejected at the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) in London on Friday morning, according to Reuters.

"I have been campaigning against Uber...

From The Verge: Earlier this week, Google leaked a new app called Files Go on the Play Store for managing and sharing files, but the page was pulled pretty quickly after it went live. Now, the company is bringing the app back in the form of an early dev build as a beta for anyone who wants to try it...

From PC Mag: As developers come up with even peskier ways to show you online ads, Google is countering with new features to block them out.

An upcoming version of Google's Chrome browser will stamp out surprise ads that activate when a website you're visiting unexpectedly navigates you to a new...

From PC World: Intel dropped a bombshell on Wednesday afternoon, confirming that the company has hired AMD’s former graphics guru, Raja Koduri, heading up a new group to design high-end discrete graphics for "a broad range of computing segments."

Koduri, who will start in December, will head up the...

From CNET: Chinese tech behemoth Tencent has taken a 12 percent stake in social media giant Snap, according to the Financial Times. Tencent sits among China's three biggest tech companies along with Baidu and Alibaba, collectively known as BAT.

The news, revealed Wednesday in Snap's quarterly...

From PC Mag: Google is rolling out some of the fixes it promised late last month following widespread reports detailing screen burn-in on the Pixel 2 XL. To "extend the life of the OLED display," the navigation bar buttons at the bottom of the Pixel screen will now fade out after a short period of...

From CNET: The Opera desktop browser was reborn with social media capabilities earlier this year, but that apparently wasn't enough.

Today's update adds VR support to the multifaceted browser, letting you stream 360 degree videos to your HTC Vive or Oculus headset, as well as any OpenVR devices. It...

From The Verge: Snap published its third quarter earnings report as a public company this afternoon. This first two did not go well, and the third was no better. The company missed investors’ expectations in terms of revenue and user growth, and the share price plunged over 15 percent in after-hours...

From The Verge: Amazon has announced that its new Fire TV Stick Basic Edition will be available in more than 100 countries worldwide starting today. The Fire TV Stick is a media player that connects to your TV’s HMDI port, and lets you to stream content, including movies and TV shows, through...

From PC World: It sounds crazy, but it’s true: Arch-rivals AMD and Intel have teamed up to co-design an Intel Core microprocessor with a custom AMD Radeon graphics core inside the processor package, aimed at bringing top-tier gaming to thin-and-light notebook PCs.

Executives from both AMD and Intel...