Attention, witches and wizards: The much-anticipated Harry Potter: Wizard Unite mobile game launched today for Android and iOS. CNET confirmed the AR game is available in the US and UK. (Here’s how you get started playing Harry Potter: Wizards Unite on your iPhone or Android phone.) The Harry Potter game was originally supposed to debut Friday. The news …

For most people with phones, robocalls are a pesky, mostly unavoidable irritation. But at hospitals, incessant spam calls can have more serious implications, The Washington Post reported earlier this week. Administrators say phone lines tied up by scammers are interfering with emergency calls, hampering emergency communication between ambulances and the hospital and the hospital and families. The Post called it a new …

As time consuming as Facebook can be sometimes, a new study suggests what you post could offer a window into your health. The language used in Facebook posts could be helpful in predicting diseases and mental health disorders, according to research from Penn Medicine and Stony Brook University. The study, published Monday in the journal PLOS ONE, suggested that social …

The Twitter account of Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has long been one of the wackier places on the internet. Musk might’ve taken it a step further, changing his Twitter handle to Daddy DotCom and tweeting that he was done with the social media site.  “Just deleted my Twitter account,” Musk tweeted early Monday. Just deleted my Twitter account — Daddy …

It looks like we now know the number of users affected by a banned Facebook market research app, which paid users up to $20 a month to give the social media site access to how they used their phones. The app, which gained attention earlier this year after Apple blocked Facebook from offering to iPhone users, collected sensitive device data on about …

At its annual WWDC event last week, Apple unveiled a new privacy tool called Sign in with Apple, an alternative to single sign-on services offered by Facebook and Google. Apple appeared to take a shot at its competitors by saying that even free services need to respect privacy. Google’s Mark Risher reportedly wasn’t pleased about the jab but thinks the technology will make …

The US Public Broadcasting Service faces challenges beyond the Trump administration’s efforts to defund it. Paula Kerger, CEO of the nonprofit broadcaster, says PBS has now encountered an obstacle from Apple. Kerger said Tuesday that a new restriction from the iPhone maker will limit how PBS can work with third-party developers and will ultimately harm the PBS Kids app. She made the …

Chris Beard, CEO of Firefox browser maker Mozilla, reportedly wants to offer premium services and subscriptions as part of a new income plan. In an interview with German magazine t3n published Friday, Beard suggested this might include a secure storage solution or a VPN service. “We want to add more subscription services to our mix and focus more on the relationship …

Shazam is one of my favorite apps. It eliminated the days of having to Google scraps of song lyrics or try (and fail) to remember them if I heard a song in a movie trailer or on the radio. If you use Shazam’s Android app, you’ll see an alert at the bottom of the main screen. It’ll let you know …

Google CEO Sundar Pichai, in an interview with Axios on HBO, said YouTube isn’t quite where the company wants it to be.  Axios asked Pichai about his reactions to the video site’s scandals and changes. “You know, we rank content based on quality,”  Pichai said, in the interview that aired Sunday. “So we are bringing that same notion and approach to …