From The Verge: Sony is finally rolling out deeper support for Google Assistant on some of its headphones, making good on a promise it made at CES 2018 when it first announced the feature, as spotted by Android Police.

For now, the update seems to be arriving for Sony’s WH-1000XM2 and WI-1000X...

From PC Mag: Thousands of iOS apps apparently contain a programming error that can expose the products to hijacking, according to security researchers in China.

Pangu Team, a group of iPhone jailbreaking experts, say they discovered the problem while auditing several iOS apps. The programming error...

From CNET: Facebook launched a partnership with the Atlantic Council on Thursday that will help prevent malicious actors use the social network to interfere with elections.

The think tank's Digital Forensic Research Lab will help Facebook monitor specific regions to prevent the spread of...

From The Verge: Andy Kleinman, the CEO and co-founder of secretive startup Wonder, thinks the game industry is finally ready for a truly hybrid piece of hardware — and he’s not talking about the Nintendo Switch. Sitting in The Verge’s San Francisco office late last month, he pulls what looks like a...

From PC Mag: When it comes to bullies, should you engage or ignore? Twitter is choosing door No. 2. It announced today that it will stop troll tweets from popping up at the top of your conversations and searches using "new behavioral signals" to pinpoint the offensive messages.

According to a...

From CNET: Microsoft is reportedly planning to release a line of cheaper Surface tablets that will allow it to compete more effectively with Apple's iPads.

The company's smaller, lower-cost Surface tablets could arrive as soon as the second half of 2018, said Bloomberg, quoting people familiar with...

From PC Mag: A new Google service will offer you more bang for your buck when it comes to cloud storage.

On Monday, the company said its moving paid customers of Google Drive over to an upcoming platform called Google One.

As part of that change, the tech giant will offer a $9.99 per month plan...

From CNET: A new stream of six-second ads are appearing on Snapchat and they can't be skipped.

The ads, for movies like Deadpool, Apple and Samsung, are only appearing during its professionally-produced Shows, AdAge reports. They act much like commercial breaks on TV -- remember those?

That...

From The Verge: Amazon Go is heading to Chicago and San Francisco, according to a report from The Seattle Times, marking the first expansion of the online retailer’s cashier-less grocery store from its initial Seattle location.

Per The Seattle Times, Amazon has posted job listings for store...

From The Verge: Lenovo Vice President Chang Cheng is teasing a new phone on China’s Weibo social network that’s nothing but screen framed by an ultra-thin bezel (via CNET). While Apple might claim that the iPhone X is “all screen,” its infamous notch — and the rash of Android imitators that followed...