Now playing: Watch this: How Pixar created its most complex character yet for… 3:54 When Pixar’s “Finding Nemo” was released in 2003, critic Roger Ebert was so impressed with the immersive underwater world on screen that he wrote: “I wanted to sit in the front row and let the images wash out to the edges …

Peter Thiel, your job is safe. The Facebook board member has been under fire since it was revealed last month he was bankrolling former wrestler Hulk Hogan’s lawsuit against Gawker Media. Through it all, Facebook, with the crucial role it plays for much of the world’s publishers, has faced questions about his board seat. Thiel will remain on the social …

If you want to text a friend that you’re having pizza and beer, sure, you could type all of that out. Or you could go full-millennial and send a two-tap response: the pizza emoji and the beer one. The point is emojis are everywhere. And now Facebook is bringing its own specially designed set of the tiny picture symbols to …

If you’re going on a road trip this summer, you might have a kid in the backseat begging you to stop for McDonald’s. If you use Google Maps, your kid might not be the only one prodding you to make that detour. On Tuesday, the search giant unveiled a handful of new ways for brands to advertise on Google Maps. …

Whenever we talk about artificial intelligence, someone inevitably mentions Skynet, the destructive machine system in the Terminator movies. But we shouldn’t be worried about a dystopian rise of the robots. At least that’s the opinion of John Giannandrea, Google’s chief of search and the company’s former AI boss. Why? Because we’re so far away from anything that would even resemble …

Now playing: Watch this: Android N packs new features, and you get to name it 2:35 Last December, while on a trip back to India, Sundar Pichai joked that the name of the next version of Android would be decided in an online vote. Google’s CEO quipped that the nation’s 1.3 billion people could choose an Indian dessert for the …

Google on Wednesday showed off the latest features in the latest iteration of Android, the most popular mobile operating system in the world. For those who have been paying close attention, Google’s Android N demos on Wednesday were no surprise. For the past two years, Google has used I/O to give the world its first look at changes to Android. …

Google’s new video chat app has an interesting quirk: You can see a live video feed of who’s calling you, even before you pick up the call. Think of it as a digital peephole, before you answer the door. The search giant unveiled the app, called Duo, on Wednesday at its annual I/O developer conference held at the Googleplex Mountain …

Twitter can’t say as much as it wants to about data requests it gets from the government, at least for now. A U.S. judge on Monday partly dismissed a lawsuit filed by Twitter that argues the social media company should be able to disclose more details about information the government asks for, according to a report by Reuters. U.S. District …

In 2006, Thom Yorke, lead singer of the English rock band Radiohead, released a solo album called “The Eraser.” In 2016, Yorke has apparently erased his band’s presence from the Internet. On Sunday, fans began noticing the posts on the band’s Twitter and Facebook pages were deleted. The quintet’s official website, Radiohead.com, leads to a blank white page. Yorke’s personal …