When it comes to Thanksgiving Day traditions, it seems gobbling turkey with family hasn’t quite been edged out by online shopping, at least not yet. Black Friday still takes the cake (or the pumpkin pie) when it comes to cruising the internet for bargains, judging by final numbers from Adobe Analytics, released Saturday. The day …

OK, poetry lovers, here’s that Wednesday afternoon Google Maps verse you’ve been jonesin’ for: Health care is redShopping is blueDoes retail therapy get its own color too? Before you start scratching your head and muttering wtf, here’re the CliffsNotes… Google revealed Wednesday that it’s going color-coding crazy in Maps. The tech titan is updating the Maps color scheme and adding …

I was going to write this post using Google Docs, but all I got was a “Trying to connect” alert. I wasn’t alone in being shut out. Twitter lit up Wednesday afternoon with tweets from various frustrated word slingers pulling their hair out over the outage. OF COURSE GOOGLE DOCS DECIDES TO GLITCH AFTER I FINALLY STOP PROCRASTINATING AND START …

Sprint and T-Mobile have nixed their merger. In a brief joint statement Saturday, the companies said they were “unable to find mutually agreeable terms.” The move wasn’t a surprise. A Monday report by Japanese publication Nikkei said Sprint’s parent company, Japan-based carrier SoftBank, planned to break off merger talks because of a dispute over ownership of the combined company. The …

Budding scientists take note. That’s what Google wants you to do, anyway. The company said Wednesday that it’s added new note-taking abilities to Science Journal, and has made the app available on iOS as well as Android. Science Journal is the year-old mobile app that lets would-be Einsteins turn a phone into a scientific instrument. Using the app, you can …

In response to a high-profile protest against Twitter, CEO Jack Dorsey said the social network will up its game when it comes to monitoring content and policing hateful and harassing tweets. Dorsey took to Twitter on Friday night to post a string of tweets about “critical” policy decisions he said the company had made earlier Friday. Twitter will take a …

“A penny for your thoughts” puts a rather measly price tag on your intellectual productions, doesn’t it? Well, now Google is offering iPhone users a full 99 cents more for their opinions. The tech giant said Wednesday that its Google Opinion Rewards app has arrived on iOS in the United States. The app offers you a buck a survey to …

Taiwan is the latest country to slap an antitrust fine on Qualcomm, the world’s largest provider of chips for phones and other mobile devices. The island nation’s Fair Trade Commission said Wednesday that it had fined the US-based company $773 million, Bloomberg reported. Qualcomm has a monopoly on patents for certain crucial mobile phone technologies, and it violated local laws …

Now playing: Watch this: Project Loon headed to help Puerto Rico 1:16 Enlarge Image That’s not a balloon. It’s a cell tower. Alphabet It looks like Project Loon will be sending balloons to Puerto Rico to help the hurricane-ravaged island re-establish phone service. In two tweets Friday, Matthew Berry, chief of staff of the US Federal Communications Commission, said the …

What if you could take a consumer drone, douse it with growth serum, and make it big enough to fly around in? It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s Superdrone! That’s a brainstorm that seems to have occurred to a good number of people — including, now, the makers of the AK-47 assault rifle. Kalashnikov Concern, part of Russian defense …