The online DNA service you use to find out your ancestry may soon help reunite immigrant families. 23andMe CEO Anne Wojcicki has agreed to provide DNA kits to help reunite families separated at the US border, reported the San Jose, California-based Mercury News. The idea came to life after Rep. Jackie Speier, a Democrat from …

Don’t know what something is called and your description isn’t cutting it for a search engine? Besides Google Lens, now you can also search using pictures on Bing. Microsoft on Thursday launched a new function on Bing that lets you search an image on the web using your camera, the company said in a blog post. This AI-powered feature is …

Tech addiction is a hot topic, and rumor has it Facebook is working on a feature to help people re-engage with the real world. The tech giant is testing a tool called “Your Time on Facebook” that could help users manage time spent on the social media platform, according to screenshots shared by serial tipster Jane Manchun Wong. The purported feature …

MoviePass customers who want to see latest popular films will soon be stuck with an additional fee. Starting next month, MoviePass will charge subscribers $2 — and possibly more — to see movies it deems popular. The move was reported earlier by Business Insider. The additional fee, reminiscent of surge pricing on Uber, will roll out in “coming weeks” as …

Are you all about gadgets? Are you into wearables? Then the next few years might be very exciting for you. Health and fitness are at the heart of smartwatches nowadays. But with rapid developments in cellular connectivity, especially 5G, and integration with more internet-of-things devices, IDC predicts that upcoming smartwatches will be all about making your life more efficient. “The …

If Yelp has its say, you’ll never have to ask a waiter “What’s good here?” ever again. Yelp’s new Popular Dishes feature will appear at the top of each restaurant’s page. Yelp The company on Tuesday rolled out its Popular Dishes feature to help consumers decide what to order at a restaurant they’re not familiar with. The new feature will …

Roku may soon make the need to constantly log into different subscriptions go away. Roku plans to launch a video subscription marketplace that can handle payments for different channels and services, Variety reported Monday. The feature will allow multiple subscription channels to run within a single app on Roku, which it also calls a channel. The bundling of different channels …

Google is venturing into Asian e-commerce with the help of a local powerhouse. The company said Monday it will invest $550 million in JD.com, a leading Chinese e-commerce company also known as Jing Dong, to provide consumers easier options to shop online and tap into the Southeast Asian market. “The Asia-Pacific region is one of the largest and fastest growing …

Remember Jawbone? The Fitbit rival, which went out of business last year, claimed repeatedly that Fitbit had stolen its trade secrets. Now Jawbone is about to get its day in court, again. One current and five former Fitbit employees have been indicted in US District Court with possessing Jawbone trade secrets. The indictment was issued Thursday in the Northern District …

The price of Ether surged roughly 11 percent to $526 a coin on Thursday after a Securities and Exchange Commission official said the cryptocurrency doesn’t have to adhere to the agency’s rules. William Hinman, an SEC director, said the agency doesn’t view Ether as a security. The SEC made the determination after deciding the Ethereum network is “sufficiently decentralized,” Hinman said at …