Update, Sept. 21, 2021: Microsoft will hold its 2021 Surface event on Sept. 22, when the Surface Duo 2 is rumored to arrive. Microsoft brought the Surface Duo to market earlier this fall. The Surface Duo ($344 at Amazon), powered by a modified version of Google’s Android software, puts a different spin on the foldable phone trend, joining Samsung’s recently …

For the most up-to-date news and information about the coronavirus pandemic, visit the WHO and CDC websites. Apple is expanding a new store design meant to help protect employees and shoppers ahead of an expected massive iPhone 12 launch. The new format, called “express,” puts plexiglass-protected sales counters in front with a wall of accessories and products behind them. Customers …

Apple’s iPhone 12 family hits the market at an extraordinary time — with the coronavirus pandemic leaving tens of millions of people out of jobs and kicking off a recession that has thrown everything into a state of uncertainty. The new phones feature a boxier look, a magnetic attachment called MagSafe and, yes, super-fast 5G, but the price tag of …

Apple set Oct. 13 as the date for its latest iPhone’s debut, and the day finally arrived. Here’s everything Apple announced on Tuesday, including four versions of the iPhone 12 and the $99 HomePod Mini. And here’s how to preorder the entire iPhone 12 lineup. Like Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference and the Apple Watch and iPad launch event earlier this year, the iPhone event took …

Update, Nov. 12: Read our HomePod Mini review. The time-honored tradition of last-minute Apple leaks right before its main event continues with gadget leaker Evan Blass showing off what appears to be a new sphere shape for the HomePod speaker lineup. Here’s how to watch Apple’s livestream of today’s event, which is expected to be the debut of the iPhone 12. In his post on …

Apple’s next iPhone may come in blue, according to a last-minute rumor from well-known device leaker Evan Blass, who posted that tidbit to the internet shortly before the company’s digital event, being held Tuesday at 10 a.m. PT / 1 p.m. ET. In his post on the app Voice, which pitches itself as an alternative social network to Twitter that …

When Apple’s 5G iPhone 12, or whatever it’s called, gets announced on Tuesday, Oct. 13, during the company’s online-only launch event, industry watchers will be looking closely to see how Apple sells us on 5G wireless, its new chips and cameras, and whatever other new features it might pack in. (Here are all the final iPhone 12 rumors we’ve heard, …

In Fortnite: Battle Royale, the free online title from Epic Games, 100 players take control of characters wielding everything from axes to sharpshooter guns to rainbow-colored unicorn stick horses. Their objective is to battle to the last person standing, kinda like the Hunger Games, but much more silly and cartoonish.  Fortnite‘s become an international phenomenon, attracting more than 350 million …

Get Tim Cook talking about privacy, renewable energy or even the coronavirus pandemic, and he’s happy to give you his perspective. Talk about President Donald Trump, and he almost immediately wants to change the topic. The dynamic played out several times with Cook, who participates in only a handful of interviews per year, while talking with the Atlantic’s editor-in-chief, Jeffrey …

Users have found a major bug in Apple’s iOS 14 iPhone software. The free software upgrade, which Apple made publicly available Wednesday, includes features many users had long asked for, such as better ways to organize apps, living programs called widgets on the home screen, and the ability to change which default apps the phone uses to browse the web …