Now playing: Watch this: Google Home spouts crazy talk with fake news in answers 2:10 Don’t believe everything you read on the internet. Google acknowledged Monday reports that it inadvertently allowed false information to spread over the weekend. “Unfortunately, there are instances when we feature a site with inappropriate or misleading content,” a Google spokeswoman …

I watched the drone ascend the 30 storeys from street level to my apartment balcony. It deposited the box on my table and buzzed right off again. Inside were oranges I needed for a salad I was going to make for my friend Barbara. At least they were supposed to be inside. I couldn’t tell for sure because — just …

A new generation of the classic Nokia 3310 debuted in Barcelona on Sunday evening, and immediately became the talk of the town. Earlier that same day, I bought an original version of the phone on the back streets of Barcelona’s Gothic quarter for just two euros at the city’s weekly stolen goods market. Barcelona is known for many things — …

It wasn’t so long ago that Nokia and Google didn’t move in the same circles, but oh, how times have changed. These days they’re bosom buddies, joined at the hip, BFFs — at least for the foreseeable future. Nokia famously bypassed Google’s Android mobile software in favor of Microsoft’s Windows Phone operating system at the start of this decade. The …

This is not the Nokia flagship phone you’ve been looking for. Startup HMD, which owns the license to build Nokia phones, on Sunday launched a raft of handsets in a bid to once again be a leading light in the mobile world. HMD will need to turn up the wattage. The highest end phone unveiled is the Nokia 6, a …

If you’ve ever wondered whether Nokia would make a smartwatch, the answer is that in a roundabout way, it kind of already has. In May 2016, Nokia bought French tech company Withings and in doing so brought its whole product portfolio, smartwatches and all, under its wing. From summer 2017, all Withings products will be rebadged with the Nokia name, …

Now playing: Watch this: The Nokia 3310 is back and so is Snake 1:17 A year ago, Nokia CEO Rajeev Suri promised a new generation of Nokia phones. Today, he made good on his word. Nokia partnered with mobile startup HMD Global, a company made up of ex-Nokia employees, to announce four new phones on Sunday here at Mobile World …

Ten years ago on Tuesday, a gutsy Kenyan company launched a mobile money initiative that would change the lives of millions. Its name is M-Pesa, with “pesa” meaning money in Swahili. Think mobile money and your mind will probably jump to NFC-powered payment services from Apple, Samsung and Google. M-Pesa predates all of those and launched before the smartphones they …

Bekkie Morgan wakes up at 7 am everyday, takes her temperature with a standard oral thermometer, enters it into fertility app Kindara and promptly rolls back into bed. Morgan, however, isn’t trying to get pregnant. She’s actually using Kindara as a digital age form of birth control. As apps increasingly do everything from ordering our food to hailing us a …

If you’re considering purchasing a connected toy for your offspring, you might want to think twice. In Germany, regulators have determined that the My Friend Cayla doll could be up to no good, given its potential to steal information about children who play with it. And they say that German parents whose children are in possession of a Cayla doll …