Apple is reportedly working with private Medicare health plans to subsidize the Apple Watch for seniors. The company has been speaking with at least three Medicare plan providers to find ways to subsidize the price of the watch, CNBC reported Wednesday. At-risk seniors could reportedly use the Watch as a health tracker.  Medicare health plans …

Employees at Giant Food Stores will soon have a new googly-eyed robot coworker. Marty, a tall grey robot assistant, will take on the aisles of all of Giant Food Stores’ 172 locations, the company said Monday. The robot can identify and report spills to customers and employees. Marty roams the store unassisted to flag spills and other hazards using image …

CES 2019 marks the first time AMD has ever given a keynote at the international trade show — so naturally, you’d expect the company’s debut conference to be packed. On Wednesday morning, AMD President and CEO Lisa Su didn’t disappoint, talking up the company’s upcoming third-gen Ryzen desktop CPUs, the new Epyc Rome chips for data centers and how, in …

President Donald Trump is chiming in on Apple’s sales warning from earlier this week, an announcement that prompted a quick drop in the iPhone maker’s stock price. “They’re gonna be fine,” Trump said Friday at a White House news conference. “Apple is a great company.” In a letter to investors Wednesday, Apple CEO Tim Cook said revenue in the company’s fiscal first quarter would …

Huawei has set a record for itself by shipping more than 200 million smartphones in 2018, the company said in a statement Sunday. The Chinese phone maker said the numbers were largely driven by the success of products like its P20, Honor 10 and Mate 20 series.  Huawei’s smartphone shipments have grown from 3 million units in 2010, it added. Last year, it …

Google will reportedly kill off its Hangouts chat app in 2020. The reported move may not surprise many because the company has shifted its focus to other communication platforms. Last year, Google said it was “evolving” Hangouts to focus on two new services: Hangouts Meet, a video conferencing feature, and Hangouts Chat, a messaging platform and Slack competitor. Google removed …

Microsoft Office is rolling out new app icon designs for the first time in five years. Icons for apps such as Word, Excel and PowerPoint will sport a more simplified look, Microsoft said in a Thursday blog post. The changes will start showing up on mobile in the next few months, and on Windows and Mac in the months following. …

Have you ever put on a virtual reality headset but hesitated to walk around because you might smack into a wall? If so, Google may have a fix for you. The search giant filed a patent application, published last week, that details “motorized footwear” for “augmented and/or virtual reality.”  Donning the roller-skate-like shoes will allow a person to move as if walking, motion …

Facebook is reportedly testing a feature for Messenger that would let you and your friends view a synchronized video together in a group chat.  The feature, reportedly called “Watch Videos Together,” would let people “chat about the same videos at the same time,” according to screenshots of code posted to Twitter on Friday by Ananay Arora. “Everyone in this chat can …

Comcast will pay $700,000 in refunds and cancel debts for more than 20,000 customers in Massachusetts as part of a settlement, following allegations that the company used misleading ads about long-term cable contracts, the state attorney general said Tuesday.   The settlement revolves around allegations that Comcast didn’t disclose the monthly cost and terms of its long-term cable contracts. This …