I’m holding a phone about FaceTime length away from my face as I’m running around a room. If a certain company has its way, everyone will be doing this a lot more soon. I’m playing a game created by Niantic, the startup that was the force behind the 2016 smash hit mobile game Pokemon Go. …

For years, technology features for people with disabilities have felt like an afterthought. Microsoft is hoping to change that. The tech giant announced Monday a $25 million, five-year program to encourage software and device developers to design products using artificial intelligence that are aimed at the disabled community. Think apps that describe what people see, better text-to-speech technology and predictive text …

Brian Blau was in China two years ago when he found the killer app that could remake how we use virtual reality. Blau, a longtime analyst for Gartner, was meeting with VR headset makers and app developers, hoping to glean insights about the way their customers acted, and perhaps find the elusive must-have app that convinces people to buy their …

Mark Zuckerberg has done a lot of apologizing and explaining in the weeks since he was forced to tell the world that data from 87 million Facebook users was co-opted and misused without their — or his company’s — knowledge. This week, he gets to say it all over again when he faces about 5,000 developers who gather near Facebook’s …

Get ready for less Facebook in your life. That’s not a typo. The world’s largest social network said Thursday that it’ll be releasing Facebook Lite, its pared-down app designed for people in developing countries with limited data plans, to the wider world, including Australia, Canada, Germany, France, the UK and US.  Facebook is making the app only available on Android …

BlackBerry’s tired of waiting for Facebook’s friend request. So it sued. The Canadian business software provider and former phone giant sued the world’s largest social network in a Los Angeles court.  The suit, filed Tuesday, targets Facebook and its Instagram photo sharing app and WhatsApp messaging service, BlackBerry said in a statement. It came after what BlackBerry said was “several …

Facebook and Instagram may have successfully borrowed a lot of Snap’s designs, but it still has a few tricks up its sleeves. The social networking company, known for its disappearing messages and popularity among teenagers, surprised Wall Street Tuesday when it announced better-than-expected fourth quarter sales of $285.7 million and a daily user count of about 187 million, 5 percent higher …

If you have an iPhone X, then you too can now send messages as a skeleton. I wrote that weird and unlikely sentence because Apple released the test version of its iOS 11.3 update Thursday. The software, which was announced Wednesday, is now available basically to anyone who wants to install it on their devices.  Apple released a test version …

A Swedish company, Yevo Labs, is building its latest headphones with material from an improbable source: guns. The headphones themselves are pretty standard Bluetooth earbuds, based on the company’s previously released Yevo 1 design. It’s around the edges that things get interesting. The accent metal is less polished than the mirror-finish chrome-like plating you’d find on its onyx-, ivory- or …

For the past 19 months, my wife and I have been living with another human. He can get cranky, and he’s sometimes a picky eater. But he can also flash a smile that melts your heart. I’m talking about my toddler son, Theodore. As a tech reporter and the producer of CNET’s Status Update podcast about parenting in the modern …