From PC World: Microsoft has released a new beta build of Windows 10 aimed at enhancing various aspects of the operating system, including support for the LastPass extension in the Edge browser, as the company hurtles toward releasing a major update in the coming months.

Build 14361, released...

From CNET: Uber and two of its executives were issued with fines on Wednesday by a French court for running an illegal transport service in Paris, reported Reuters.

At the heart of the dispute is the low-cost Uber POP ride-hailing service, which uses non-professional drivers with their own cares to...

From PC World: Yahoo is selling over 3,000 patents and pending applications that the pioneering Internet company believes could be the most foundational patents related to Web search and advertising.

The patents are in the areas of search, advertising and cloud technology and 2,659 of these were...

From CNET: As Indians increasingly move to e-commerce to do their shopping, Amazon is giving domestic companies a big reason to worry.

Company CEO Jeff Bezos on Tuesday announced that his company will be investing an additional $3 billion in India. This takes Amazon's total investment in the...

From InfoWorld: On the eve of its Tech World conference in San Francisco, Lenovo has signed a deal that will allow it to bring virtual reality to more of its products in the future.

The deal allows Lenovo to use Movidius's Myriad 2 vision-processing chip in upcoming devices, bringing capabilities...

From CNET: Ready to have a virtual-reality system in your home this week? HTC says is now selling the Vive online and will ship the gadget internationally within two to three days of purchase.

You can check out the virtual-reality system in person at over 100 retail locations throughout the United...

From PC World: Verizon Communications will be bidding about US$3 billion for the Internet assets of ailing Yahoo, according to a newspaper report.

The communications company will try to beat other potential bidders such as private-equity firm TPG with a deal that would likely aim to combine Yahoo...

From CNET: Vizio has announced its range of 2016 sound bars, which range from a single 38-inch bar to a full 5.1-channel setup, and all now they feature wi-fi streaming as well.

The sound bars begin at $180 for the 38-inch SB3830-D0 "subwoofer-less" sound bar and culminate in two 5.1 systems at...

From CNET: Two new Samsung phones with folding screens could be unveiled next year, if a report turns out to be true.

The South Korean tech giant is mulling the release of two phones with bendable screens as soon as 2017, according to Bloomberg, which cites anonymous sources "familiar with the...

From InfoWorld: The June batch of Android security patches addresses nearly two dozen vulnerabilities in system drivers for various hardware components from several chipset makers.

The largest number of critical and high severity flaws were patched in the Qualcomm video driver, sound driver, GPU...