From PC World: Living with the beta version of Google Maps is a great way to test out the latest features that sometimes come down the road rather quickly.

This time there are several new tools to play with that impact everything from what the map looks like when it starts up to how your trip...

From CNET: Samsung recently published a patent (original, in Korean) that shows renderings of a phone that folds in half down its middle.

The company is expected to release a bendable smartphone next year, according to reports. We don't know for certain whether this patent would tie in to those...

From InfoWorld: Lenovo created a stir when it said the Yoga 900 and 900S hybrids would work only with Windows, not Linux. The company has now changed its stance, bringing Linux support to those PCs.

The PC maker earlier this month issued a BIOS update so Linux can be loaded on Yoga 900, 900S and...

From CNET: Samsung has been raided by investigators as the company is dragged into a political scandal involving South Korea's president.

President Park Geun-hye is reported to have allowed long-time confidante Choi Soon-sil to exploit their friendship for financial gain. Samsung is alleged to have...

From PC World: Earlier this year, Microsoft made a splash at its Ignite conference for IT professionals when it announced that it has been racking cards of programmable chips together with servers in its cloud data centers.

The chips, called field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), can be...

From CNET: Airbnb suffered a loss on Tuesday when a federal judge rejected the company's plea to change a San Francisco law that requires the home-rental company to block or remove hosts who haven't registered with the city.

Airbnb sued the city of San Francisco in June saying the city law violates...

From InfoWorld: While new programming languages emerge on what seems like a daily basis, two established languages have remained in charge when it comes to leading the Tiobe Index of language popularity: Java and C.

The two languages have held either first or second place since Tiobe began...

From CNET: Samsung has published an open letter of apology to its customers following numerous reports of its Galaxy Note 7 handsets overheating catching fire that led to the handset's recall.

"We recognize that we have not lived up to your expectations, or our own high standards. For this we are...

From PC World: AMD is excited about its Polaris GPUs and upcoming Zen-based PC and server chips, which the company hopes will end years of struggles.

A step forward for AMD is the release soon of its Radeon Pro WX graphics cards, targeted at content creation for 4K games or virtual reality. These...

From CNET: LG is stepping up its Android game, on Tuesday beginning the rollout of Android 7.0 Nougat to the G5.

That makes the G5 the first non-Google phone to receive the update. Meanwhile, the recent Google Pixel and LG's V20 were shipped with Nougat.

LG said G5's in South Korea will get the...