For the most up-to-date news and information about the coronavirus pandemic, visit the WHO and CDC websites. In the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, international messaging platform WhatsApp will provide a $1 million grant to fight COVID-19-related fake news and misinformation, according to a press release. The company has also created a Coronavirus Information Hub in partnership …

Slack, the workplace chat and productivity platform used daily by 12 million people, is getting a major upgrade in the coming weeks that will make it more simple and organized, the company said in a Tuesday blog post. The news comes as more people are practicing social distancing and working from home due to the coronavirus pandemic.  Here are the biggest changes Slack …

Windows 10 now has more than 1 billion active users worldwide, Microsoft said Monday. The milestone comes about two months after Microsoft ended support for Windows 7 and encouraged people to upgrade to Windows 10.  “One in every seven people on the planet are planning, creating, ideating, executing, moving, shaking and doing great things with Windows 10,” Yusuf Mehdi, corporate …

For the most up-to-date news and information about the coronavirus pandemic, visit the WHO and CDC websites. In the midst of the outbreak of COVID-19 — the new coronavirus that originated in China and has claimed more than 4,000 lives in the past three months — Google Maps is telling businesses how they can keep customers updated on any changes to hours or operations. …

Here lies Cortana — or at least, who she used to be: An up-and-comer digital assistant whose potential was never fully realized. Last week, Microsoft said that in its upcoming Windows 10 release, it would remove some consumer-facing Cortana features like controlling music and smart home management, and shift it to more of a “personal productivity assistant” that helps you …

When a major company overbills you, doesn’t honor a sales promise or wrongly damages your credit, it can be difficult and discouraging to seek out ways to make a consumer claim. The online platform FairShake — formerly known as Radvocate — relaunched on Tuesday with a rebuilt product that aims to help people take on big companies such as Verizon, …

Professional-networking site LinkedIn has started internally testing a Stories feature, letting users post to their profile a photo or text that’ll disappear after a set amount of time, according to a recent blog post from Pete Davies, the company’s senior director of product management. Social media giants Snapchat, Facebook and Facebook-owned Instagram already have similar Stories features.  The Stories approach …

OYou’re on vacation, at a conference, being responsible after a night out or don’t have a car, and need to get a ride. If you’re like me, you have two apps on your phone for this very purpose: Uber and Lyft. But how do you choose which ride-hailing service to use at any given time, especially if they seem to …

The Huawei EMUI 10 software update based on Android 10 has been rolling out to Huawei and Honor phones worldwide since December 2019, despite ongoing national security issues between the massive Chinese telecom and phone manufacturer and the US government.  If you have a Huawei phone, the EMUI 10 skin is the biggest visual update to Huawei’s OS in years. …

You know the feeling: You get a new phone, appliance or other device, take a quick peek at the owner’s manual and then throw it in a drawer — until something breaks, and those instructions seem to have disappeared. A new app wants to help you with your product maintenance woes by calling up product guides as easily as Shazam …