From eWeek: Google introduced the Pixel 2 XL and Pixel 2 smartphones Oct. 4, to refresh the sales momentum behind these popular Android handsets and their Google-centric applications.

The phones, which have been rumored for months, include the Pixel 2 XL, which has a 6-inch quad-HD edge-to-edge...

From AnandTech: Seagate is launching a trio of 12TB hard drives today with a focus on the consumer market. The 3.5” drives build upon the 'PMR platters in a helium-filled enclosure' platform used in the 10 TB consumer hard drives released last year. The new 12TB drives target three different market...

From PC World: Google’s Pixel Buds earbuds look like just another pair of wireless earbuds. But the $159 Pixel 2 accessories do something different: They’ll help you translate a conversation into a language you don’t already know.

The Pixel 2 smartphone lacks a headphone jack, but the new Google...

From PC Mag: Bad news, Netflix members: prices are going up.

Netflix's most popular plan, Standard—which offers HD-quality streams and lets you watch on up to two devices at a time—is increasing $1 to $10.99 a month. The company's Premium plan, which offers Ultra HD quality and allows four...

From PC Mag: Every time more terabytes are added to a hard drive, data centers rejoice as it means they can fit more storage into their already packed to bursting server farms. So Western Digital shipping the world's first 14 terabyte hard drive will be music to their ears. But it's not just more...

From ExtremeTech: If mathematicians are collectively devices for turning coffee into theorems, as Alfréd Rényi once remarked, phone patents and purchase agreements are devices for turning patents into gobs and gobs of cash. Devices and technologies are so intertwined, it’s not unusual to see...

From TechCrunch: Paul Otellini, who presided over Intel during some of its most prosperous years, passed away today at the age of 66. The company announced the news in a press release.

Otellini joined the company in 1974, eventually rising to the position of CEO in 2005. Those were the salad days...

From AnandTech: Western Digital has introduced its new SanDisk Automotive and SanDisk Industrial memory cards for specialized applications. The new cards can work in extreme temperatures for prolonged amounts of time, integrate health status monitor capability, special data retention mechanisms, and...

From eWeek: On Oct. 3, Yahoo now part of Verizon's Oath business unit, publicly disclosed that all of its users were impacted by a data breach in August 2013. Oath estimates that information on three billion users was stolen by attackers in the breach.

The three billion figure for the data beach is...

From PC Mag: Erin Joseph Finan and Leah Jeanette Finan from Muncie, Indiana, have proved it is possible to steal over a million dollars worth of goods from an online retailer. But we are also about to see the consequences of carrying out such a huge fraud and getting caught.

As the BBC reports, the...