Pornhub is giving you a way to browse in anonymity.  The company said Thursday that it’s rolling out a free VPN called VPNhub. A VPN is a virtual private network. CNET’s Laura Hautala describes it like this: “A VPN redirects your internet traffic, disguising where your computer, phone or other device is when it makes …

Legal troubles stemming from unhappy MacBook users are piling up for Apple. A new class action lawsuit has been filed against Apple over its use of “butterfly switch” keyboards on MacBooks and MacBook Pros. Defendants say the keyboards, which Apple introduced in 2015, are defective.  This is the second lawsuit over the keyboards this month.  It follows blog posts, tweets, support-forum comments, a Change.org petition, …

The Federal Communications Commission’s 2015 net neutrality rules will officially be dead as of June 11, the agency said Thursday. Those rules, instituted during the Obama administration, were meant to keep broadband and wireless providers from slowing or blocking internet traffic. Then last December, the Republican-led FCC under President Donald Trump began the rollback of those rules, eliminating what Chairman …

Update: Check out Here’s how Qualcomm-powered Wear OS watches will take on Apple Watch for a more in-depth, detailed follow-up report on this story. Qualcomm is working on new chips for Wear OS smartwatches, according to a report from Wareable on Tuesday. “You will see this new platform, this new architecture, significantly improve the look and feel of the watch whether …

Google CEO Sundar Pichai kicked off the I/O conference by talking about accessibility features, Tuesday in Mountain View, Calif. In once case, Google is adding Morse Code support for its Gboard keyboard. Pichai showed a video of a woman named Tania who uses Morse Code to communicate. Now, when she starts spelling a word out in Morse Code, she can …

Instagram is taking another step toward keeping the comments clean on its platform. After introducing out a comment filter last year, Instagram is rolling out a bullying filter starting Tuesday, Instagram’s Head of Analytics and Data Science Tamar Shapiro said at Facebook’s annual developer conference, F8, in San Jose, Calif. Facebook, along with other social media platforms like Twitter, have been grappling …

It didn’t take long for Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to talk about data privacy on Tuesday at its annual developer conference, F8, in San Jose, Calif. “We need to makes sure this never happens again,” Zuckerberg said, referencing the Cambridge Analytica scandal, as well as another hot topic of Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election. F8 comes just weeks after …

Your next smartphone might have a fingerprint sensor built in to the screen. Shipments of phones using the technology will hit 100 million by 2019, according to a report out Wednesday from financial services firm IHS Markit. That’s more than ten times the 2018 forecast of 9 million. Under-display fingerprint sensors “allow phones to have full-screen displays with an invisible …

This story is part of “Follow the Money,” a look at how digital cash is changing the way we save, shop and work. Bob Anstett just wanted a soda. He was on a work trip in St. Augustine, Florida, late last month, and one morning thought he’d pop into a nearby Dunkin Donuts. While standing in line, he noticed a …

Following news that Google became the latest company to replace its gun emoji with a water pistol, Microsoft tweeted Wednesday it’ll do the same. “We are in the process of evolving our emojis to reflect our values and the feedback we’ve received,” Microsoft said via both spokesperson and tweet. Since 2016 when Apple did away with its pistol in favor …