You’re an app developer and aspiring entrepreneur. Who do you go to for council? Jessica Alba, duh. The actress has joined Apple’s reality show “Planet of the Apps” as a mentor and adviser to app developers who are competing for funding, reports Variety. She joins Gwyneth Paltrow and will.i.am as the third celebrity to be …

Everyone loves to hear Kanye West say crazy things (admit it), and usually he reserves his craziest outbursts for the MTV Video Music Awards. He gave a six-minute speech at tonight’s VMAs, but that’s not what social media was buzzing about afterwards. Instead, the birds were tweeting about Drake and Rihanna. Presenting the Video Vanguard award (MTV’s lifetime achievement honour) …

Now playing: Watch this: Mobile web to annoy us less thanks to Google 1:33 Who doesn’t enjoy a good pop-up ad? Everyone, that’s who. Now Google is trying to be the ultimate bro, announcing on Tuesday that it’ll soon be punishing mobile sites with obstructive advertisements. “Pages that show intrusive interstitials provide a poorer experience to users than other pages …

Spotify could be going public in the nex​t year, and it’s apparently hoping to rejig its deals with major music companies before then. The music streaming company is now negotiating with record labels, looking to shave some percentage points off what it pays them, reports the Wall Street Journal. The publication adds that Spotify is said to pay 55 percent …

2016 was a big year for VR, and it’s about to get bigger. Google will be launching its Daydream VR platform in a matter of weeks, Bloomberg reports. Alphabet, Google’s parent company, is said to be investing big money on content for the platform. Much of this is going toward development of video games and apps, licensing sports leagues and …

Athletes at the Rio Olympics have taken swipes at competitors from other countries. That’s not the only swiping going on. The 11,000-plus athletes participating in the 2016 Olympic Games are giving Tinder’s Brazil business a big boost, according to statistics provided by the dating app. Matches in the Olympic Village, where the athletes stay during the quadrennial event, rose by …

Now playing: Watch this: Two new Apple Watches coming this year, report says 1:24 Enlarge Image The Apple Watch went on sale in April 2015. James Martin/CNET There could be new Apple Watch hardware around the corner, if a well-connected industry analyst is proved correct. KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, who last year correctly predicted Apple would launch the iPhone …

Aziz Ansari already has a pretty thick resume — he’s an actor, stand-up comic and even an author. Now, he can add documentary narrator to that list. Sort of. Reddit user BenMeiri84 this week apparently discovered that Netflix had inadvertently taken subtitles from Ansari’s “Live from Madison Square Garden” special and added them to a nature documentary. The internet suspects …

Atlantic Records is on the hunt for whoever leaked a song from the “Suicide Squad” soundtrack, and it’s demanding Reddit help to find the culprit, according to TorrentFreak. Sometime around June 15, the song “Heathens” by Twenty One Pilots was uploaded to dropfile and leaked to the band’s subreddit, a forum made by Reddit users to discuss the band. Atlantic …

Now playing: Watch this: Pepper the humanoid robot knows how you feel 1:14 Pepper, Japan’s friendly neighbourhood robotic humanoid companion, is finally coming to the United States — but just for a week. The robot will be greeting customers at B8ta, a tech store in San Francisco, California, from August 11 to 18, according to the store’s Facebook page. Pepper …