From PC Mag: A jury has ordered Google to pay $425 million for collecting users' data even after they disabled a tracking feature on their Google accounts.

As Reuters reports, the class-action lawsuit was filed in 2020, and it accused Google of collecting search and activity data through third...

From PC World: The big smart home manufacturers have been leaking like sieves as of late, giving us juicy early previews of their super-secret upcoming releases. Philips Hue recently fell victim to its own leak that revealed its entire fall product lineup, and now Google appears to have unwittingly...

From CNET: Huawei's second-generation trifold phone, the Mate XTs, is now available, just shy of a year after the company's first trifold phone was released in September 2024.

The trifold phone isn't much different from the Mate XT, but two big upgrades take the spotlight. The Mate XTs let you use...

From PC Mag: Google is bringing Auracast support to Pixel phones.

The Bluetooth technology works on devices compatible with LE Audio and lets you stream audio to multiple devices at once. Think of it as a hotspot, but for audio.

Select Android devices from Xiaomi, POCO, and Samsung already...

From PC World: Illegal sports TV streams are popular all around the world—so much so that they’re among the most popular IPTV offerings alongside classic streaming content from Netflix, Prime Video, etc. Unsurprisingly, these streams are also a huge thorn in the sides of authorities.

But yesterday...

From CNET: By this time next week, we'll know exactly what Apple has planned for its new Apple Watch lineup. But one thing already seems very likely: a refreshed version of the rugged Ultra. Not only is it due for an upgrade (the Ultra 2 debuted in September 2023), but Apple may have actually...

From PC World: At the end of July 2025, Microsoft reached a big milestone and came one small step closer to its goal of making Windows 11 the most popular version of Windows. For the first time ever, Windows 11’s market share pulled ahead of Windows 10! And the gap was pretty significant, with...

From CNET: If you're sharing an ad-free YouTube Premium or YouTube Music account with friends or family who live outside of your home, you could lose your premium privileges. Customers who lose these can still stream on YouTube or listen to music with ads -- but let's be real, it's not the same...

From PC Mag: Chrome isn’t going anywhere, and neither are Google’s payments to developers of competing browsers to keep its search engine as their default.

The ruling that US District Court Judge Amit P. Mehta handed down Tuesday in the Google search-antitrust case gave the plaintiffs—the...

From CNET: Major credit bureau TransUnion has suffered a data breach that exposed sensitive information belonging to 4.4 million customers, including names and Social Security numbers.

The data breach took place on July 28. A TransUnion spokesperson told CNET that the incident was identified and...