From PC Mag: Over the past two years, since it started using Intel's modems in the iPhone 7, Apple has locked its modem feature set to what Intel provides. Today, Intel promised a doozy: a 1.6Gbps LTE modem scheduled for mid-2019, just in time for the iPhone 12. That's a faster LTE connection than...

From CNET: Electronic Arts has announced it is turning off all in-game purchases on Star Wars Battlefront II, on the eve of the game's worldwide launch, after a massive outcry from fans.

The company confirmed the news in a blog post late on Thursday, admitting that the microtransactions it built...

From The Verge: HTC has launched Vive Tracker bundles, opening its tracker device to everyday consumers for the first time. The Vive Tracker is a small interchangeable motion tracking accessory that can attach to any object in real life, and works with the HTC Vive VR headset. The tracker creates a...

From PC Mag: Almost two years ago, Kickstarter acquired a startup called Drip, designed to help music fans support artists through subscriptions. Now, Kickstarter is relaunching Drip to help more creators get paid.

Similar to services like Patreon, Drip is designed for ongoing funding rather than a...

From CNET: If you get into a new Lincoln Continental or Navigator, its optional head-up display (HUD) may surprise you with its brightness, clarity and visibility through polarized glasses. Those qualities come courtesy of a fundamentally different technology than used by other automakers. Instead...

From The Verge: Amazon launched Prime Music and Alexa in Canada today, along with three devices that support the voice assistant: the Echo, Echo Plus, and Echo Dot. Amazon says Alexa will speak English with a Canadian accent and have local knowledge and local skills — Alexa's voice-activated apps —...

From PC Mag: Verizon's upcoming 5G home internet service won't have the kinds of data limits you expect from current wireless services, the company said today.

Verizon has been trying out its new 5G home internet service for months. In a tour of its New Jersey lab, we got a closer look at the 5G...

From CNET: Hackers who get hold of some OnePlus phones can get virtually unlimited access to their files and software through use of a testing tool called EngineerMode the company evidently left on the devices.

Robert Baptiste, a freelance security researcher who goes by the name Elliot Alderson on...

From The Verge: HTC has officially revealed the Vive Focus, its all-in-one VR headset. As previously announced, the Vive Focus runs on a Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 chip and uses inside-out positional tracking. It should be the first standalone six-degrees-of-freedom VR headset to see release, though...

From CNET: Mozilla on Tuesday released Firefox Quantum, and even if you long ago switched to Google Chrome, it's worth giving the browser upgrade a spin.

Why? First and foremost, version 57 of the open-source browser is faster -- twice the speed of Firefox 52 from March as measured by the...