From The Verge: In January, the popular media streaming app Plex announced a new VR app that allowed users to watch movies and TV shows on their own or together with friends in VR. It was a cool idea, though compatibility was restricted to just the Google Daydream. Now, there’s good news for Plex...

From CNET: Samsung looks to continue its streak of record quarters, updating its estimate for its first quarter 2018 results on Thursday.

From Jan. 1 to March 31, the company made an estimated operating profit of 15.6 trillion Korean won, or $14.7 billion. That's a solid rise from the 9.9 trillion...

From The Verge: Microsoft is introducing a new OneDrive feature this week that will make it easier to recover from ransomware attacks. Files Restore is making its way over from OneDrive for Business to personal OneDrive accounts. The catch is you’ll need an Office 365 subscription to get access to...

From PC Mag: On Tuesday, April 3, Nasim Najafi Aghdam approached YouTube's headquarters in San Diego, California and started shooting. She ended up injuring three people, with a fourth suffering a twisted ankle sustained during what must have been a situation full of panic. Aghdam was found dead by...

From CNET: Three Kwikset smart locks are making their way to the Amazon Key Home Kit platform, Kwikset announced Thursday.

The new smart locks do more than open the door for friends and family. They also enable Amazon Key, Amazon's in-home package delivery service for Amazon Prime subscribers...

From PC World: While it's still likely several weeks away from being announced, we already have a pretty good picture of the OnePlus 6. After divulging that its next handset would indeed include a notch in the screen for the camera, the company has dropped a few more tantalizing details about its...

From CNET: Mark Zuckerberg just switched from "maybe" to "attending" for a congressional hearing.

The House Energy and Commerce Committee announced Wednesday morning that the Facebook CEO will be testifying on April 11, at 10 a.m. ET. Zuckerberg has faced massive pressure to answer to lawmakers in...

From PC Mag: Google is banning extensions that mine cryptocurrency from the Chrome Web Store.

Until now, Google has allowed cryptocurrency mining extensions as long as mining was the extension's only purpose, and users were adequately informed about this behavior, Google's Extensions Platform...

From PC World: For years, PC gamers have needed to pick a poison: Buy a desktop with the most powerful components available, or sacrifice some performance for a laptop they could take on the road. Intel’s new six-core mobile Core i9 chip, its fastest notebook CPU ever, paves the way for 5GHz gaming...

From CNET: Mozilla, the nonprofit organization behind the Firefox web browser, said Tuesday it's building a new web browser. This one, though, won't run on your computer in the traditional way. Instead, it's built "from the ground up" to work with new VR and AR headsets, which bring computer images...