Governments around the world are keeping Twitter busy. During the first half of the year, the micro-blogging service received a total 5,676 requests for information about accounts. That’s 2.1 percent more requests than in the previous six-month period. The US accounted for 2,520 requests, followed by Japan (732), the UK (631) and France (572). In …

We’re just starting to get a clearer picture of Apple’s “Portrait” mode. A new beta version of iOS 10 released to developers on Wednesday includes software for taking portraits, according to MacRumors. Portraits is a feature the Cupertino, California-based tech giant touted when it introduced the enormous iPhone 7 Plus earlier this month and it’s just now getting tested out. …

Software can continue talking to software the way it always has. That’s because a jury found Thursday that Google’s Android mobile operating system doesn’t violate copyrights owned by Oracle. Rather, it’s covered by fair use. The case, brought by Oracle, involved application programming interfaces, which govern how code communicates with other bits of code. The APIs were part of Java, …

The HTC 10 is here. Next week it will be at T-Mobile. The wireless carrier said Wednesday it would launch the HTC 10 on May 18. T-Mobile is charging nothing down and a little more than $28 a month over two years for the phone. To make the offer more enticing, T-Mobile is also providing a rapid charger and a …

Amazon will fill gaps in its same-day delivery service, according to Bloomberg, responding to criticism the service excluded some minority neighborhoods, The online retail behemoth pledged to expand its Prime Same Day Service to all zip codes in the 27 cities in which it’s offered, according to an Amazon statement obtained by the Congressional Black Caucus and seen by Bloomberg. …

Carl Icahn has hung up on the maker of the iPhone. The billionaire investor said he had sold his stake in Apple, citing concerns over China. The Chinese government could “come in and make it very difficult for Apple to sell there,” he said in an interview with CNBC on Thursday. Icahn, an activist investor who has publicly brawled with …

Biz Stone wants Jelly to be sticky. The co-founder of Twitter and Medium said Thursday that he had launched his on-again-off-again search engine project, which is designed to help users find answers directly from other users. Jelly works differently than most search engines. Rather than bring back a bunch of related documents, which then need to be examined, Jelly routes …

Snapchat’s chatty users like video. Roughly 10 billion videos are viewed on Snapchat, the ephemeral-photo app that’s becoming a media platform, up a quarter from February, according to the same-named company behind the app. Snapchat is using the data, which was earlier reported by Bloomberg, to show its investors that DJ Khaled‘s stomping ground is a place where content is …