A nationwide outage for CenturyLink customers, including those trying to reach 911 emergency service, dragged on for the better part of two days before its resolution late Friday. The outage hit customers of CenturyLink, a phone, internet and TV service provider, in areas including Idaho, New Mexico and Minnesota. The company’s site lists residential services in 35 states. …

The video game industry’s biggest title is raking in the dough, a new report says. Fortnite: Battle Royale, the cartoonish last-man-standing title that’s free to download from Epic Games, is set to notch $3 billion in profit this year, according to a TechCrunch report Thursday, citing a person familiar with the company’s finances. This comes after Epic was valued at more than …

I’m no Tom Cruise. That’s honestly the first thing I thought when Doug Griffin, the CEO of Nomadic, told me he’d struck a deal with Paramount and developer VRWERX to create a Mission: Impossible-inspired VR experience. Of course, the best part of virtual reality is you don’t have to be an action star like Mission: Impossible’s leading man to have …

A kid tech company founded by ex-Motorola executives has just gotten a nod from one of the tech industry’s biggest names. Netgear, probably best known for its consumer routers and modems, was part of a group that invested $6.5 million in Jiobit, a company that makes GPS trackers that can be put on children’s clothes. Overall, Jiobit has raised $11 …

There was a time when the Yahoo homepage was one of the most important pieces of real estate on the internet. Verizon hopes to relive that prominence. The new Yahoo app’s look is more streamlined, but inspired by the old Yahoo homepage. Yahoo The carrier, now Yahoo’s owner, said Wednesday it’s launching a free new Yahoo app as a one-stop shop for …

What if instead of a bulky headset or cumbersome glasses to give you the futuristic augmented reality overlay of computer information on the real world, you could just wear contact lenses? That’s what Silicon Valley startup Mojo Vision is aiming to let you do, people familiar with the matter say. The company, which just announced that it’s raised $50 million, …

Twitter is a confounding place for many reasons, but perhaps its oddest quirk is that since its founding in 2006, it hasn’t had an edit button. That may change, and soon. CEO Jack Dorsey reportedly told an audience in India that the company is considering adding the edit functionality to tweets, primarily to fix typos. “We have been considering this for …

When the iPhone X was released last year, it ushered in a new look and feel for Apple’s handsets. The company got rid of the home button, offered a new Face ID unlock feature in return, and used a bigger and richer new type of screen called OLED for the display. It turns out some of the new displays Apple …

Mark Zuckerberg, are you betting we all have a short memory? Do you and your team at Facebook really think people will look past all the controversies that have happened this year — TL;DR: 87 million Facebook users’ personal data co-opted by Cambridge Analytica — and buy a $200 internet-connected video camera and microphone from you, of all people, and …

You probably don’t think too much about whether your browser will protect you from the bad parts of the internet, but Google’s Chrome is hoping to change that. Google said it plans to tune up the web browser, used by nearly two-thirds of people on the internet, to crack down on pages that are out to trick you into signing …