From PC Mag: Facebook will no longer be able to give you a heads-up about friends near you or impending weather changes, because after May 31 its mobile apps won’t be able to check your location in the background. Facebook will then wipe its records of users’ location histories after Aug. 1.

As...

From CNET: Spotify CEO Daniel Ek said Friday that he bought $50 million worth of Spotify shares, framing his purchase as a vote of confidence in the company he founded as its share price hits record lows.

Spotify shares have been closing lately at some of their lowest prices since the company went...

From Corsair Press Release: CORSAIR today launched an exciting new addition to its gaming headset lineup: the HS65 SURROUND. This stylish headset features lightweight aluminum-reinforced construction along with plush memory foam for superior comfort while gaming and listening, and introduces...

From The Verge: On May 5th — World Password Day — we might have come one step closer to passwords being a thing of the past.

In a joint effort, tech giants Apple, Google, and Microsoft announced Thursday morning that they have committed to building support for passwordless sign-in across all of the...

From PC Mag: AMD is paving the way for more powerful Chromebooks by bringing its Zen 3 architecture to the Google-powered laptops.

The result is the Ryzen 5000 C-Series chips, which will start arriving in Chromebooks slated to launch in June and July.

The most powerful chip in the family is the...

From CNET: Nvidia will begin selling a new AI acceleration chip later this year, part of the company's efforts to secure its leadership in a computing revolution that's powering everything from email auto-dictation to self-driving cars.

The H100 "Hopper" processor, which Nvidia Chief Executive...

From G.Skill Press Release: G.SKILL International Enterprise Co., Ltd. is excited to announce an extremely low-latency DDR5 memory kit specification at DDR5-5600 CL28 in 64GB (32GBx2) and 32GB (16GBx2) kit capacities, under the Trident Z5 RGB, Trident Z5, and Ripjaws S5 series and designed for the...

From The Verge: Amazon-owned online pharmacy company PillPack agreed to pay nearly $6 million after admitting to giving patients more insulin at a time than Medicare and Medicaid allow, according to a settlement announced by the Department of Justice on Monday.

Government healthcare programs like...

From PC Mag: Twitter is testing Circle, a feature that lets users publish content with up to 150 of their nearest and dearest.

Rather than sharing with everyone, Circle looks like an experiment to see if we want to limit the exposure of what we tweet, when, for example, sharing a personal moment...

From CNET: AT&T has announced price hikes for its older mobile plans and is encouraging subscribers to upgrade to the carrier's newer Unlimited plans.

Monthly fees for non-Unlimited plans will increase up to $6 per month for single-line customers and up to $12 per month for family accounts...