It seems Pinterest has now joined Facebook and Twitter as another popular media site that’s blocked in China. The popular scrapbooking site hasn’t been accessible in China for the past seven days, according to GreatFire.org. The censorship monitoring organization aims to bring transparency to China’s Great Firewall, a tool Chinese government uses to keep its …

There will soon be another watch operating system on the market. In an interview with Bloomberg Technology, Swatch CEO Nick Hayek said the company is making a new operating system aimed at smartwatches. More specifically, Swatch’s Tissot brand, set to be introduced late next year, will be the first smartwatch to use the to-be-named Swiss-made OS. Hayek said the new …

Wanna play a piano duet but nobody’s around? No worries. You still can, courtesy of Google’s new interactive experiment called A.I. Duet. Basically, you play a few notes and the computer plays other notes in response to your melody. What’s special about A.I. Duet is that it plays with you using machine learning, and not just as a machine that’s …

Now playing: Watch this: Jumping on AT&T’s cheaper unlimited plan? Not so fast… 2:46 With Verizon, T-Mobile and Sprint serving up standalone unlimited-data plans, AT&T doesn’t want to be left behind. On Thursday, the carrier announced its own unlimited offering, set to become available Friday for all postpaid customers (people who pay their bills at the end of the month). …

Now playing: Watch this: Find out your current Wi-Fi speed in seconds 1:14 You have your laptop connected to a Wi-Fi network with full bars. That’s great. It’s not the bars that matter though, but the actual speed of that connection. Here’s a quick way to find how fast your computer’s current Wi-Fi connection is and other information about that …

Editors’ note: This story was originally published on Dec. 9, 2014, and has been updated frequently with latest information. When it comes to home networking, there’s a soup of technical terms, LAN, WAN, broadband, Wi-Fi, CAT5e, just to name a few. If you’re having a hard time with these basic terms, you’re reading the right post. Here I’ll (try to) …

Knowing your computer’s name and what version of Windows it runs (Home or Pro) is important in general home networking, and especially when you’re asking for technical help. Here’s how to quickly find your computer’s name on Windows 8 and 10: Right click on the Start button In the pop-up menu, click on System The System window will appear and …

Now playing: Watch this: Windows 10 automatic updates are a nightmare – but this… 1:35 If you use Microsoft Windows, you can likely relate to my colleague Sean Hollister who recently documented at length the number of times that the automatic Windows Update feature has caused him pain. Sitting through an unwanted update can involve an unwanted restart and will …

AT&T customers who travel abroad can sign up for a new International Day Pass plan. Rather than paying by usage, the new plan lets you pay a $10-a-day flat free so you can talk and text “all you want” and also access your data plan as though you’re in the states. AT&T said the new plan is available for customers …

Now playing: Watch this: With Android Instant Apps, you can use a program without… 1:30 Android Instant Apps are now one step closer to reality. On Monday, Google said some of the first Instant Apps are now available to Android users in a limited test. Generally, to use an app on a mobile device, you first need to download and …