It was two years ago when Spotify entered the podcast scene and has since added 2.2 million podcasts to its platform.  With so many shows to pick from, the company will let users give their opinion on a podcast with its new rating system.  The five-star rating system goes live Thursday and lets listeners use …

Apple’s iPhone 13 came out in September, and it didn’t take long for independent repair shops to find a big problem that would keep them from replacing the phone’s screen. The iPhone maker reportedly will update the phone in the future to address this problem.  Tech repair site iFixit on Nov. 4 reported about an issue that prevents the iPhone 13 …

T-Mobile continues to update its network to 5G, but subsidiary Sprint’s 3G network has a few more months before it’s taken offline. The carrier originally planned to shut down its antiquated network on Jan. 1, but as part of an ongoing dispute and an escalating war of words with rival Dish it has delayed those plans. The 3G network will stay …

Update, Oct. 25: Read CNET’s review of the new 16-inch MacBook Pro and 14-inch MacBook Pro. Original story follows. Apple revealed its latest MacBook Pros during the company’s hardware event on Monday. It also showed off the new M1 Max chip powering these new laptops, which offers a lot of power for a fraction of the power of other processors. …

For the most up-to-date news and information about the coronavirus pandemic, visit the WHO and CDC websites. Apple employees heading back to the office or to Apple Stores will reportedly have to comply with a new COVID-19 company policy. Vaccinated and unvaccinated employees may be required to take COVID tests, with the latter receiving them frequently.  Starting next month, a new …

Windows 11 is currently in a public beta, with a release scheduled for sometime this holiday season. Along with some big design changes, integration with Android apps and adding widgets, it’s also going to revamp some of the Windows staples, including Microsoft Paint.  Paint, the painting and drawing program that’s been included in all versions of Windows, will get a …

AlgorithmWatch, a German research and advocacy group, shut down its Instagram monitoring project after what it says was a “thinly veiled threat” from Facebook. But the social network says it made no such threat and that the group’s project ran afoul of Facebook policies around data collection. The advocacy group says it’s “committed to evaluating and shedding light on … …

Google unveiled the upcoming Android 12 OS release during its Google I/O developer conference back in May. It’s considered the biggest design change for Android phones in years, and on Wednesday, the company said it’s approaching the final phase of development with the release of its fourth beta.  Android 12 Beta 4 is available for Android beta testers. This version, however, …

Ex-President Donald Trump’s former spokesperson Jason Miller is heading up Gettr, a new Twitter-like social media platform that launched Thursday, says a report by Politico.  The platform calls itself a “non-bias social network for people all over the world” and has apps in the Google Play Store and Apple’s App Store. It has a look similar to Twitter’s and the same features as …

Microsoft revealed Windows 11 during a virtual event Thursday, showing off the operating system’s new features coming to PCs. It just so happens, the tech added to the upcoming upgrade was already available on the Xbox. Auto HDR and DirectStorage are two new features coming in Windows 11 to improve how PCs handle gaming, and both were first introduced on the Xbox …