When Apple unveils a new iPhone, the world takes notice — even if it’s only a slightly buffer version of the iPhone that preceded it. This week, we met the iPhone 13, whose big claim to fame sounds like much of the generational upshifting before it: bigger battery, more storage, some new camera tricks, that …

They’re back. Smart glasses. Not the ones from Google and Snap that largely fizzled and faded from view many months and years ago. Now there’s a new pair of high-tech glasses that craves your attention: the awkwardly named Ray-Ban Stories from Facebook. Priced at $299, the Facebook Ray-Bans can shoot photos and 30-second videos, play music and podcasts, and make …

Over the last few decades, millions of manufacturing jobs have vanished from America as companies moved that work to factories overseas. For just as long, the demand for a return to the “Made in America” glory days has echoed from shuttered Rust Belt plants to the marbled halls of Washington. There is no simple fix, but that hasn’t kept people …

AT&T’s getting its wireless momentum back. The company boasted the strongest second quarter in 10 years in the key growth area of post-paid subscribers — or customers with higher credit scores who pay at the end of the month — and also saw growth in its HBO and HBO Max streaming service.  The company has spent the last few months …

Amazon is one of the most successful businesses on the planet, but it’s also got issues, which we’ve been spotlighting in the runup to the company’s popular Prime Day sales. A lot of that revolves around its workplace and its workers, the very people making sure that what you’re buying gets to you in a timely manner. Warehouse employees and …

This week started off with a whole lot of Apple, which used its WWDC events to talk directly to developers working on software for Macs, iPhones, iPads and so on — but also indirectly to everyone who uses those devices. We learned a lot about iOS 15, MacOS Monterey, WatchOS 8, new privacy tools and more. Developer betas of all …

For the most up-to-date news and information about the coronavirus pandemic, visit the WHO and CDC websites. Over the past year-plus of pandemic living, the need for broadband has become an inescapable truth. But broadband access isn’t cheap, and for some people, there’s been a hard choice to make: spend limited income to go online for work or school, or …

Over the past year, Google has weathered a whole host of controversies — from antitrust scrutiny to discord in its AI ranks — amid the wide-ranging challenges of the pandemic. So it must have been a relief for the company to spend a couple of hours focused exclusively on the marvels of tech it’s been cooking up. That’s what we …

Remember the GameStop stock trading frenzy from earlier this year? One of the key players in that saga was the stock trading app Robinhood, and that notoriety earned Robinhood’s CEO a moment on the hot seat in a congressional hearing. At issue was how the app works — and specifically, whether its business model has the best interests of its …

April showers bring May flowers. Apple’s April Spring Loaded event brought its own splash of colors, most notably in the form of a new lineup of iMac computers. You can also now get an iPhone 12 in a vernal shade of purple. That wasn’t all for Apple. There was the arrival of the diminutive new AirTags gadgets, changes to the …