If you’ve been itching for wireless charging to come to the iPhone via Apple AirPower, you’ll have to sit tight.  Though Apple announced it would be releasing the AirPower wireless charging pad at its iPhone event last September, we haven’t heard much since. There was no mention of it at Wednesday’s product reveal.   See …

A malicious edit to the label for New York City on map service Mapbox made it past a monitoring system, resulting in an anti-Semitic slur briefly showing up on apps and sites Thursday morning, including Snapchat’s Snap Map and Zillow’s StreetEasy. Before the slur, “Jewtropolis,” was removed, several people pointed it out on Twitter.  Mapbox posted a statement saying its team …

Spotify is bulking up its offerings for college students in the US. The music streaming service is adding a subscription to Showtime to its Spotify Premium for Students plan, which already includes ad-free music and Hulu (the limited-commercials version) for $4.99 per month, the company said Wednesday. (Editors’ note: Showtime is a part of CBS, which also owns CNET.) “Never before have …

The University of Texas at Austin will soon be home to one of the most powerful supercomputers in the world.  The National Science Foundation awarded UT Austin’s Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) a $60 million grant to buy and operate a supercomputer named Frontera, according to a joint statement Wednesday from the university and NSF. The supercomputer is set to become operational …

Pandora subscribers have a new way to share songs, playlists and albums with friends. Now, from inside the Pandora app, you can send music to friends via Snapchat, the company said via blog post Wednesday. “Music is meant to be enjoyed with others and now with Pandora Premium, listeners get the benefit of personalized, on-demand listening — along with the …

Not everyone is an expert. That’s the message an ad campaign called Don’t Believe Every Tweet — seemingly from Twitter itself — is trying to drive home. The irony, though, is the campaign isn’t an effort by the platform to educate users about being critical of what they see. It’s the work of a 35-year-old Los Angeles-based writer and director …

Ericsson wants to accelerate 5G deployment in the US. The telecom and networking gear maker said Friday it will invest in research and development and shorten the time it takes to get 5G products into the US market.  “To serve the demand of these fast-moving service providers, we are strengthening our investment in the US to be even closer to our …

If you can count on anything, it’s people being disgruntled with their cable company.  A survey from Consumer Reports, out Wednesday, found that only 38 percent of those with paid TV subscriptions with cable or satellite providers said they were very or completely satisfied with their service.  Consumer Reports said most of the larger cable companies — think Comcast, Spectrum …

Sitting in traffic is probably not how you’d like to spend your Independence Day. Google Maps took a look at traffic on the national holiday from 25 cities in the US and has some advice to share that could keep you out of a jam.  The report, out Thursday, shows that if you’ve got somewhere to go on July 4, …

A new report from IDC says 2018 won’t be the best year for smartphones — but there’s hope for 2019. The report, out Wednesday, predicts that smartphone shipments will drop 0.2 percent this year, following a drop of 0.3 percent in 2017. However, starting in 2019, shipments will get a bump once again, growing 3 percent annually.  That growth shakes …