LG’s Urbane LTE second edition smartwatch is back, riding on the coattails of the company’s new flagship smartphone. AT&T customers can soon get their hands on a package of high-end LG goodies, with the operator making the G5 smartphone and Urbane Second Edition smartwatch available for preorder from Monday. Both the smartwatch, touted as first …

All that walking you’re doing to meet your daily step-count goal could soon start paying off — and not necessarily in the way you expect. Yes, it will it make you healthier, but it could power your activity tracker, too, thanks to an insole that sits inside your shoe and harvests energy from your footsteps. Researchers at the University of …

Armchair travelers, take note. Google would like to help you plan your dream vacation directly from within mobile search results. The tech giant announced Tuesday that it has created its own destination guides intended to make travel planning easier. Include the word “destination” in your Google search query on mobile and you’ll see a number of flight and hotel options, …

If your tech company doesn’t have a virtual-reality team in 2016 it’s seriously behind the times — at least that’s what the social networks and phone makers of the world have led us to believe. Amazon is the latest company to jump on the virtual-reality bandwagon, a fact we know thanks to a job posting spotted by UploadVR. The Seattle, …

Internet equality law in the US is having a birthday. Dig out the party hats, but don’t celebrate too hard. It’s only one chapter in a global debate that is set to define how we use the Internet for years to come. It was exactly one year ago that the US Federal Communications Commission adopted rules saying that all Internet …

How do you solve a problem like connecting the 1.7 billion people to the Internet who live outside of the range of mobile broadband? If you’re Facebook, the answer is drones. Also, lasers. Facebook’s drone project, named Aquila, is one of several initiatives the company is testing as part of the Internet.org coalition to try to improve global Internet access. …

Ever wished you had the power to influence the world around you using just your eyes? If so, the latest developments in virtual reality technology may be just what you’re looking for. Two separate companies at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this week showed off modified Oculus and Samsung Gear VR headsets with built-in eye-tracking capabilities. In VR, eye tracking …

Sony wants to put a stop to antisocial screen time. The Japanese electronics company showed off two concept projects at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona on Monday that are designed to bring families together around interactive touchscreens, but minus the actual screens. Sony unveiled a single Xperia smartphone at the world’s biggest mobile trade show this year, but hinted that …

Most of the devices shown off this week at Mobile World Congress are expensive, shiny and designed for the hyper-connected world. But not all. The Vodafone Foundation unveiled two new products at the show in Barcelona on Monday designed to bring the benefits of the Internet to thousands of Syrian and Kenyan refugees. The foundation, which is the mobile network’s …

He might have a grand plan to connect the world, but Mark Zuckerberg still hasn’t made up his mind about when he’ll let his newborn daughter use the Internet. “I have some time to figure that out,” joked the CEO of Facebook, the planet’s most widely used social network, during his Mobile World Congress keynote on Monday. “She’s only three …