From InfoWorld: Letting people communicate securely and privately should be a no-brainer, not a complicated process where users jump through hoops or pay for expensive tools. For more than a billion WhatsApp users around the world, that dream is now reality, as the messaging app now provides end-to...

From PC World: Google Calendar users now have the ability to add reminders from their desktop browsers that will follow them around to other Google services, thanks to a feature the company introduced Tuesday.

People can now set reminders in other services like Google Now, Keep and Inbox, and...

From CNET: Apple has quickly put the kibosh on one of the latest bugs found in its iOS mobile software.

Demoed Monday in a YouTube video, the flaw enlisted Siri to run a Twitter search to look for any results with an email address. On an iPhone 6S or 6S Plus, you could then "force tap" the email...

From ComputerWorld: Samsung wants to cram faster and more power-efficient DDR4 DRAM in laptops and hybrids with new memory chips it introduced on Monday.

The South Korean company has started mass production of DDR4 memory chips based on the cutting edge 10-nanometer class process. The first 8...

From InfoWorld: AMD hopes to provide stiffer competition to Intel's Skylake with its new 7th Generation processor for laptops and desktops.

The new AMD processors, code-named Bristol Ridge, will initially ship in dual-core and quad-core configurations. A Bristol Ridge processor will first appear in...

From TechHive: One of the best features of Roku’s high-end streaming boxes—private listening by way of plugging headphones into the remote control—is coming to Roku’s least-expensive streamer: the new Roku Streaming Stick ($50), which is now available for pre-order. But you’ll need to provide your...

From InfoWorld: Hewlett Packard Enterprise is to sell its majority stake in Indian IT services provider Mphasis to Blackstone Group, in a deal that will help the Palo Alto, California, company raise capital as well as continue to get services delivered from India.

HPE said the purchase by...

From PC World: With privacy and secrecy functions a given in competing messaging systems, BlackBerry is dropping the subscription fee for users of the ‘retract’ and ‘timer’ functions of its cross-platform BBM messaging app.

As BlackBerry’s share of the smartphone market declined, it released...

From CNET: A warning to those San Franciscans who've gotten into the illegal hotel business by offering short-term rentals on more than one home: Airbnb is after you.

The home-sharing site on Saturday said it's investigating hosts in the city with multiple listings and plans to give "unwelcome...

From ComputerWorld: With its latest SSDs, Intel is paving the way for fast, standard NVMe connections in storage systems for both more and less adventurous users.

Intel is one of the biggest boosters of NVMe (non-volatile memory express), designed as a standard controller technology for PCI...