From CNET: Apple Music appears to be growing on listeners.

The music subscription service has surpassed the 20 million subscriber milestone just 18 months after its launch, Billboard reported Tuesday. That number represents growth of 15 percent since the company announced in September it had...

From InfoWorld: Amazon Go sounds like the ultimate retail experience: No checkout lines, no registers. Just walk in, grab what you want, and leave.

But what’s most eye-opening about the retail and cloud giant’s first foray into a brick-and-mortar presence is Amazon's claim that its “Just Walk Out”...

From CNET: YouTube, the music industry's enemy No. 1 earlier this year, said Tuesday it has paid more than $1 billion in advertising revenue to artists, labels and publishers in the last 12 months.

The milestone, released in a blog post by business chief Robert Kyncl, is a stab at mending fences by...

From PC World: Facebook, Twitter, Microsoft and Google's YouTube have agreed to share with one another identifying digital information of violent terror content that they find on their platforms.

When they remove "violent terrorist imagery or terrorist recruitment videos or images" from their...

From CNET: AT&T said Monday it's offering a trial run of 5G service for a business customer, marking the first time the next-generation cellular network will be used in trials that involve a real customer. Intel will be the customer, using the 5G service in its Austin, Texas offices. The development...

From InfoWorld: Amazon Web Services is looking to make it easier, and more efficient, for enterprises to analyze their data in the cloud.

“Eighty percent of what we call analytics is not analytics at all but just hard work,” said Werner Vogels, chief technology officer at Amazon.com, speaking...

From CNET: Google is trying to reinvent the emergency contact form for the smartphone era.

The search giant on Monday unveiled a new app called Trusted Contacts, which aims to keep you safe in dicey situations -- anything from a natural disaster to a walk home on a dark street.

The app, only...

From PC World: There’s a lot of excitement about Intel’s superfast Optane SSDs, but products won’t be on shelves this year as the chipmaker had earlier promised.

Intel is currently making Optane in a factory in China, and production will “ramp” up next year, said Stacy Smith, executive vice...

From CNET: Airbnb has agreed to drop a lawsuit against New York City over a new law that will fine hosts for listing many common short-term rentals in the company's biggest US market.

The short-term home rental service said late Friday it had settled the lawsuit filed against the city two months...