Renting a Bird scooter won’t be your only option for much longer. The company announced preorders for the new Bird One on Wednesday. The scooter comes in three colors — jet black, dove white and electric rose — and costs $1,299.  Some of the Bird One’s features include extended battery life and protection, a 30-mile travel range …

Facebook wants to help filmmakers build a platform and users find quality content. To do so, the social media site is changing up how it ranks videos. In a blog post published on Monday, Facebook Product Management Director David Miller said going forward the social network will prioritize original content. “We want to help media companies — whether large, small, global, …

The Pixel 3A isn’t just a one-off affordable Google smartphone. It potentially marks the start of a family of budget devices.  At Tuesday’s Google I/O conference, the tech giant said it would continue to bring premium phone products down to a more affordable price point. The company said it plans to release phones “pretty regularly,” but didn’t confirm that it …

To kick off its I/O developer conference on Tuesday, Google has announced the winners of its fourth annual contest for Google Play apps. App developers vied in nine categories, according to Google.  Here’s a list of the first-place winners: Standout well-being app Woebot: Your Self-care Expert Developer: Woebot Labs Best Accessibility Experience Envision AI Developer: Envision Technologies BV Best Social Impact Wisdo Developer: …

Google is celebrating teachers on Monday. If you check out the search engine’s page, you’ll see a crayon-style Google Doodle surrounded by pencils, protractors, apples, puzzle pieces and other school-related images. “Today’s Doodle was created in partnership with the 57 2019 US State Teachers of the Year who visited Google in January for their first group meeting and explores the …

Ahead of the new live-action Pokemon movie coming out May 10, Google released a Pokemon Detective Pikachu Playmoji pack in Playground on Thursday. Now you can interact with Charizard, Jigglypuff, Mr. Mime and Detective Pikachu with your phone’s camera. The pack is compatible with Pixel phones and select Motorola and LG devices. “All you have to do is point your camera …

They say there’s an app for everything. Now there really is. A new app has now been released called Fartr, and it’s exactly what you’re thinking. The program lets you record, analyze and share your farts. Fartr cuts through the old taboos and calls itself the “official app of the body positive movement.” All you need to do is hold …

Facebook‘s Instagram is getting an overhaul designed to put people first. Adam Mosseri, Instagram’s vice president of content, said the social media site is testing ways to make the experience “less pressurized.” The image-sharing social network will feature follower counts less prominently and make private the counts of the likes posts get. The changes are meant to help people focus on …

Apple has added the iPad 2 to its list of “vintage and obsolete products.” Both the Wi-Fi only and Wi-Fi/cellular versions of the tablet are included in the updated list, which means that Apple will no longer offer hardware service or parts. The exceptions: Consumers in Turkey and California can still receive service and parts. Apple, which updated the list Tuesday, didn’t …

The Oculus Rift S virtual reality headset will go on sale May 21 in the Microsoft Store for $399.  A page in the Microsoft Store listed the VR headset as available for preorder Tuesday, then listed it as out of stock. And then the page became “unavailable.” The Microsoft Store page listed the release date before the page became unavailable. …