Walmart will reportedly bring out its own tablet to rival Apple’s iPad. The Android tablet will be cheap, designed to withstand kids and come from a Chinese supplier, Bloomberg reported Wednesday, based on photos discovered in a database of wireless product applications filed with the US Federal Communications Commission. It’ll be sold under Walmart’s ONN …

Editor’s note, March 18: Apple has announced two new iPads. Starting at $499 (£479, AU$779) for the 64GB model, the new iPad Air features a 10.5-inch Retina display, an A12 Bionic processor and support for the Apple Pencil. It replaces the 10.5-inch iPad Pro from 2017, which is no longer sold. The new iPad Mini, starting at $399 (£399, AU$599) for the 64GB version, also …

Facebook’s loss may be Telegram’s gain. The founder of the messaging service said Thursday that people flocked to Telegram during the long Facebook outage that knocked out not only its namesake social network, but also corporate siblings Messenger, WhatsApp and Instagram. “I see 3 million new users signed up for Telegram within the last 24 hours,” Telegram boss CEO Pavel …

Twitter boss Jack Dorsey recorded a podcast with a fitness personality who last month repeated a claim that “vaccines do indeed cause autism.” Host Ben Greenfield also told his followers not to trust internet watchdog Snopes in his Feb. 11 tweet, as previously reported by NBC. On Tuesday, Greenfield wrote that he and the social media CEO chatted about “advanced …

Easier on the eyes, the dark mode is. Look! It’s the new dark mode toggle on the iOS version of the Slack app. Screenshot by CNET Slack added the “darker, higher-contrast theme” option to its iOS and Android apps Monday, so checking out your work messages on the move won’t be quite so bright. Shrouding the messaging service’s app in …

The rollercoaster of Facebook’s successes and scandals means CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s security measures have grown in a big way over the years, but one rumor suggests there’s a pretty drastic one. Some Facebook employees whisper that he has a “panic chute,” hidden in the conference room floor, leading directly to the parking garage of the company’s Menlo Park, California, headquarters, …

We’ve known for a while now that Microsoft is rebuilding its Edge browser with Chrome tech, but some possible leaked screenshots make it look a whole lot like Google’s Chrome. The screenshots apparently show the browser in its current state, Neowin reported Tuesday, as Microsoft tests it. The navigation, refresh and home buttons are in the same place as in …

Ever see something in a Google image search that you had to have straight away? You might be in luck. Google Google is working on removing a step by testing shoppable ads in sponsored image search results, it said in a blog post Tuesday. The ads let retailers highlight several items for sale within the sponsored image (which includes a …

Apple apparently altered a part its 2018 MacBook Pro to address the “flexgate” problem, a teardown site reported. Thousands of people complained about the issue in a petition started last year, saying it caused problems with the backlight — from a “stage light” effect at the bottom to a completely dead backlight — in MacBook Pros from 2016 onward. The underlying cause …

Lego’s jumping on the foldables bandwagon along with Samsung and Huawei, but not with a phone. The Danish toymaker made a direct visual reference to Samsung’s Galaxy Fold unveiling in a Monday tweet about its “Lego Fold” pop-up story book. “A stunning 5-inch cover display unfolds into an 11-inch pop-up story book,” it wrote. “For endless creative play that never …