Yes, the iPhone X is expensive at $999 — but what if you could get a second one for free? That’s the deal that AT&T is offering for the next four days in honor of Father’s Day. That’s not a bad deal, considering other carriers have generally only been willing to give you a free …

If you rely on Facebook Messenger to chat with friends (I do) and you’re on an iPhone or iPad (not me), you might have noticed the app is crashing a lot today.  According to The Verge, that’s because you downloaded Messenger version 170.0, which was just released yesterday. It seems to have a bug which makes the app crash as soon …

Perhaps you’ve heard: On June 30, owner Fitbit is ending cloud services for Pebble’s fan-favorite line of smartwatches. That means no more app store, voice recognition, SMS and email replies, timeline pins, forum, or easy way to develop for the platform. But there may be a way to keep your Pebble fully functional: an independent team called Rebble has pledged …

Two weeks ago, Apple crushed some gamers’ dreams by rejecting the Steam Link app for iOS, which would have allowed users to stream games from their beefy computers to an iPhone or iPad.  But today, it’s looking like the Steam Link iOS app might have a real chance of being approved — because Valve has unceremoniously ripped the Steam Store …

Look at this picture. Now imagine you’re holding a laptop that — instead of a keyboard — has a second screen. Like something out of Westworld. Swiping might be a tad easier than typing, yes? Microsoft-owned SwiftKey was one of the first virtual keyboards to offer intelligent, predictive swipe-typing on Android and iOS phones, and now Microsoft has announced that …

I’m as scared as anybody that all of my oh-so-personal data is being turned into a giant dossier that’ll help companies and governments target me in all kinds of seminefarious ways. Shadow profiles and the like.  But if Google’s just revamped Ad Settings tool is any indication, those potentially privacy-penetrating algorithms are still pretty dumb.  So dumb that I’m happy …

Twitter is still figuring out how to remove the poison from parts of its social network, but the company also wants you to focus on the good — and today, it’s announcing a whole bunch of changes that could make it easier to follow live news events on the platform, including the World Cup. In short: Breaking news and “personalized …

Microsoft’s Surface Pro hasn’t changed a lot in recent years. After a year-and-a-half wait, the 2017 version was primarily a spec bump, with only minimal changes to the body and Microsoft’s trademark kickstand and stylus. The 2018 model merely added an optional LTE antenna for cellular connectivity. But according to ZDNet’s Mary Jo Foley, a “heavily redesigned” Surface Pro 6 …

Facebook has admitted to an incredibly embarrassing bug — one that encouraged 14 million users to share posts publicly when they intended them to be private.  According to Facebook, only four days worth of posts could have been accidentally shared — ones published between May 18 and May 22, and the company has automatically changed them back to private, too. …

This is really getting out of hand.  I mean… I guess this is slightly better than a dongle that you’ll lose? At least it’s magnetic. Crank up your audio experience with the Audio Adapter HD, dropping this summer. It simply clicks to your Essential Phone to deliver full MQA rendering and an audiophile-grade amp that powers high impedance headphones. Oh …