Del Seymour lived on the streets in San Francisco’s Tenderloin district for 18 years, hustling for his next fix. For San Franciscans, this gritty neighborhood is synonymous with homelessness, drugs and destitution. It’s also home to 17 tech companies — including Twitter, Dolby Laboratories, Spotify and Zendesk — attracted in part by tax breaks and …

Is your finger getting tired of flicking all of those Pokeballs in the seemingly never-ending quest to “catch them all”? Now you can get all your Pokemon Go fun without having to move a muscle. Related stories Pokemon Go helmet holds your phone, protects your head Nintendo’s Pokemon-catching wristband: Everything you need to know Cornflix TV, a curator of viral …

How many kids once thought that if they just pumped their legs a little harder, they might soar all the way around the swing set? British inventor Colin Furze just made those kids’ dreams come true. Furze built a contraption in his yard that swings 360 degrees. In a nerve-wracking video posted to YouTube Thursday, he flies through the air …

Being the only one at the Panda Express table who doesn’t know how to use chopsticks will soon be a thing of the past. The fast-food chain will offer a chopsticks-fork combination called a “chork,” food news site Eater reports, though it doesn’t say when. Panda Express did not immediately respond to a request for comment — or send us …

The same week synchronized divers Chen Aisen and Lin Yue won gold at the Olympics, they may end up being crowned GIF kings too. The athletes from China currently star in a GIF that’s even more mind-bending than those speedy midair flips that got them some gleaming new hardware on Monday. Related stories #PhelpsFace meme claims early gold at Rio …

Facebook is basically Snapchat’s little sister right now and wants to copy everything she does. The social-networking giant unveiled on Friday a tweak to its mobile app, a new main screen it’s trying out in Canada and Brazil that looks a lot like Snapchat’s home screen, according to BuzzFeed. The potential feature demonstrates just how much inspiration Facebook gets from …

Buy one phone, get the second free. T-Mobile will run a one-day sale on Saturday, August 6, giving customers who buy a qualifying Samsung Superphone a second device of equal (or lesser, if you prefer) value, according to the company. The promotion follows a week of celebrations by the company after OpenSignal and others crowned T-Mobile the fastest wireless network …

You’re streaming a stroll through Central Park on Facebook Live. You walk to Belvedere Castle and the feed freezes. You’re in a dreaded deadzone. It’s at this moment when you wonder who actually has the best wireless coverage. OpenSignal, a wireless coverage mapping firm, is attempting to answer that question. In a test of network quality, T-Mobile came out on …

While you sip your nitro coffee out of a mason jar in a tiny San Francisco coffee shop, you can now snap a selfie and add a “hipster” sticker designed just for the city. The photo- and video-sharing app Snapchat on Tuesday launched Geostickers, allowing users to send city-specific stickers along with their snaps to friends. The new feature follows …

Facebook is probably doing a happy dance right now. The social network on Tuesday reported that users streamed 8,500 hours, which works out to 356 days, of video on Facebook Live over the course of the Republican and Democratic National Conventions last month. “We saw extraordinary use of Facebook Live during the conventions,” said a Facebook spokesman in an emailed …