West Virginia will reportedly allow troops serving overseas to vote in November’s midterm elections using a mobile app. The mobile votes — an effort spearheaded on West Virginia Secretary of State Mac Warner — will act as alternatives to mailed paper ballots and the state’s counties can decide to adopt this approach on individual basis, …

Facebook has cracked down on far-right conspiracy theorist Alex Jones by removing four of his pages, citing breaches of its community standards. The social media site removed the Alex Jones Channel Page, the Alex Jones Page, the Infowars Page and the Infowars Nightly News Page, Facebook said in a blog post Monday.  The ban follows Apple’s and Spotify’s removal of his podcasts on …

Uber drivers in Australia were told to log off their apps on Monday morning to protest “features designed to further shortchange and underpay” them. RideShare Drivers United (RDSU) called on them to turn off the Uber app between 7:00 a.m. and 9:30 a.m. local time in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Perth and Hobart. The lobby group said that around 15,000 drivers …

Huawei raised its shipment forecast to more than 200 million for the year and is aiming to become the world’s largest phone vendor by the end of 2019. The Chinese phone company projects that its shipments for 2018 will surpass its 180 million target after shipping over 95 million phones in the first half of the year, according to Reuters. …

Google Maps has added phone battery status to its location sharing for iOS and Android devices, allowing your contacts to see if you’ll be cut off soon. When a location has been shared, you’ll see that there’s now a battery icon between the distance and the time since the location was shared, as first spotted by Android Police. This way, …

Apple must pay Canadian patent licensing company WiLan $145.1 million in damages for patent infringement, a California jury ruled Wednesday. The jury said that some iPhone models infringed two WiLan wireless communications technology patents. One of those is for a “method and apparatus for bandwidth request protocols in a wireless communication system” and the other is for “adaptive call admission …

VideoLAN, a nonprofit that builds open-source media player software, says it’s blocking Huawei phones from downloading its free VLC for Android app from the Google Play Store. The decision came in response to the Chinese phone maker’s decision to cut off all background apps except its own, which stops VLC’s audio playback, VideoLAN said in a tweet. “PSA: @HuaweiMobile phones …

The parents of one of the 20 children killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting want to know why Mark Zuckerberg has made Facebook “a safe haven for hate.” Lenny Pozner and Veronique De La Rosa, whose 6-year-old son Noah Pozner was killed in the Newtown, Connecticut, attack spoke directly to the social network’s founder in an open …

WhatsApp launched its four-person group video and voice calling on Tuesday. The feature allows up to four people to join a call both the iOS and Android versions of the app, regardless of their location, the company said. During a one-on-one call, you can now tap the new “add participant” icon in the top right corner to add people. “Group …

DJI was just forced to confirm its hot new Mavic 2 Pro drone — after it was accidentally advertised for sale in a UK retailer’s ink-and-paper catalog! After DJI postponed a July 18 press event, UK-based retailer Argos apparently didn’t have time to pull the listing before its catalog went to print. So you can imagine the surprise when astute …