The cellular network of the future is here, for one business customer. AT&T said Monday it’s offering a trial run of 5G service for a business customer, marking the first time the next-generation cellular network will be used in trials that involve a real customer. Intel will be the customer, using the 5G service in …

If you’re wearing a piece of connected tech, it’s probably not a smartwatch. It’s much more likely a fitness tracker, according to a report from consulting firm IDC. From June through September of this year, fitness trackers made up 85 percent of the wearables market, the report said, and drove the growth in sales. Smartwatches, in the meantime, fell in …

So you’re getting the latest update to Nougat — version 7.1.1. What does new Nougat have that old Nougat didn’t? According to Google, the updated operating system “showcases more ways to express yourself.” Available starting Monday, the latest version of Android software lets you use gifs and emojis in new ways. Users can find and send gifs from their keyboards …

What would the world be like without an iPhone? We apparently came very close to an existence without Apple’s hit device. In an interview published Tuesday by Dazed, Apple’s chief design officer Jony Ive said the product could have fallen through. “There were multiple stages while we were working on the phone when solving problems wasn’t inevitable and we really …

Random drones buzzing over airports. If you think that sounds like a terrible idea, then the Federal Aviation Administration agrees with you. To find the best tools to keep drones from messing with your takeoffs and landings, the FAA is testing drone-detection technology at the Denver International Airport, the agency said Wednesday. It’s one of six tests the agency will …

Wouldn’t it be nice? Send off a text message with a whoosh, and, presto, you’ve finished voting in the US national election. But here’s some important information: You can’t vote for Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton — or for anyone, for that matter — by text message. Electronic voting in the US is very limited, doesn’t involve text messages, and …

Now playing: Watch this: The Internet is having a bad day after massive cyberattack 1:27 Across the US on Friday, people screamed at their phones and computers and went a little crazy trying to figure out which of their favorite websites were still working. At 7 a.m. local time, folks on the East Coast discovered that sites like Twitter, Spotify, …

If you’ve never heard of a DDoS attack before, you could be forgiven for wondering what the frak was going on Friday as half your favorite websites stopped working. The acronym stands for “distributed denial of service attack,” which is technical speak for a simple but increasingly powerful tool for knocking websites offline. Until recently, DDoS attacks were used to …

Now playing: Watch this: Time to quit Yahoo? Site reportedly spied on emails for… 2:17 Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer, pictured at the Fortune Global Forum in San Francisco in 2015, complied with a US government order to scan all user email according to reports from Reuters and the New York Times. Justin Sullivan, Getty Images Yahoo went searching for something …

Now playing: Watch this: Time to quit Yahoo? Site reportedly spied on emails for… 2:17 Enlarge Image Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer reportedly chose to obey the government’s demand. ChrisFarina, Corbis via Getty Images Yahoo built surveillance tools last year after the National Security Agency or the FBI issued a secret directive to scan all customers’ incoming emails, according to a …