A wearable touted as a device that can help improve your memory and increase your learning speed was unveiled Thursday by California company Humm. The soft patch sticks to your forehead like a Band-Aid and emits electric micro-pulses aimed at the prefrontal cortex. In a white paper written with the University of California, Berkeley, Humm …

Google’s lightweight Google Go app will now be available globally, Google said Tuesday. At 7MB, the app is a much smaller version of the traditional Google app. It also offers versions of new Google features like Lens and an out-loud page-reader. “Earlier this year at I/O, we showcased Lens in Google Go, a way for you to read, translate and …

When the Pentagon pours money into its own 5G shop and the Moscow mobile industry shakes hands with Qualcomm for a network roll-out deal, it’s time to sit up and take note of the role 5G is already playing among geopolitical movers and shakers. This past week also saw more US local government issues piling up as municipalities continue their …

Instagram will now let users flag dubious posts for “false information” to trigger review by third-party fact-checkers, the company said on Thursday. The Facebook-owned platform will begin rolling out the feature immediately in the US. The rest of the world will get to try out the new tool by the end of August. In a tweet, head of Instagram Adam …

Cray has been awarded a $600 million contract to build the first exascale supercomputer for the National Nuclear Security Administration, the US Department of Energy and the NNSA announced Tuesday. Named El Capitan, the supercomputer will be among the fastest known in the world and will help manage the US’ nuclear stockpile. It’s expected to go into production by late …

The Federal Communications Commission said Tuesday that phone and internet provider CenturyLink will pay $550,000 to settle an investigation into a practice known as “cramming”: when phone companies add unauthorized third-party charges to customer bills. CenturyLink will also stop billing for most third parties, start refunding affected customer accounts and let customers block future third-party charges. “Over the years, the …

Students at another 12 universities will soon be able to add their student IDs to their Apple Wallet. The additions will let more than 100,000 students use their Apple Watches and iPhones to pay for meals and transportation and access buildings on campus, Apple said Tuesday. “We know students love this feature,”Jennifer Bailey, Apple’s vice president of Internet Services, said in a …

After Twitter temporarily locked the campaign account of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, a string of leading Republican campaign committees announced an ad spending boycott against the social media platform. McConnell’s official campaign account was locked Wednesday after his team posted a video of protesters outside his Louisville, Kentucky, home earlier this week. Twitter’s blanket policy bans videos that include violent threats, …

Samsung announced Tuesday it will partner with the United Nations to deploy an app aimed at raising funding and awareness for the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals program. During Samsung’s Note 10 announcement event, Samsung CEO DJ Koh joined UN Development Programme Administrator Achim Stein to roll out the app. “At the heart of this initiative is the new Samsung Global …

A new report from Democratic technology company Tech for Campaigns has found that people who received text messages from election campaigns were 1% more likely to vote. The company’s researchers found Democratic campaigns and organizations sent 350 million texts in 2018. That’s six times more than were sent in 2016 and 2017.  “While 1% may not seem like a lot, …