When you know your address, you can tell first responders where the emergency is. When you don’t, at least for a few spots in the UK, you now can use What3words’ mapping service. The service gives each 10×10-foot patch on the planet a three-word address. A sexual assault victim held hostage who didn’t know her …

Some photographers who contributed photos to the Flickr photo-sharing site were surprised IBM used those same photos in a million-image collection to train AI face-recognition systems — but perhaps they shouldn’t have been. The Flickr photos had been shared under a Creative Commons license, a framework under which people can loosen restrictions on photos, text, video or other material that otherwise would …

In 2017, Mozilla experimented with a service that let you transfer 1GB files by sharing a web address with the recipient. Firefox Send is now out of testing and boasts a magnified 2.5GB file-size limit if you log into your Firefox account. Firefox Send is handy for those moments when you need to share video, audio or photo files that can …

Drones are useful today for real estate photos and gas pipeline inspections. They could be useful tomorrow for home security and package delivery. But in a half decade, they could well shuttle you to work over the heads of drivers stuck in traffic. That’s what Anil Nanduri, general manager of Intel’s drone group, expects. Drone innovation combined with people paying …

Brave has connected its browser ad technology to your wallet so you can get paid for seeing those ads. The browser startup, led by former Mozilla Chief Executive Brendan Eich, blocks conventional website ads by default. But in January, it started testing ads that appear as notification pop-ups for those who activate the system. Now that test has expanded so …

Photo-sharing site Flickr has severed a major tie to its previous owner by ditching the old Yahoo login system, a move that will let millions of members switch their accounts to new email addresses. It’s been difficult for Flickr’s new owner, SmugMug, to step away from Yahoo. In an effort to improve performance and reliability, SmugMug also has been moving …

If you’re trying to decode the feature list of the latest tech product, you can probably appreciate the snarky tech saying, “There are only two hard things in computer science: cache invalidation and naming things.” You probably won’t lose any sleep over cache invalidation, but names can indeed be a problem if you’re buying a PC, phone, external hard drive …

If you have anything to do with building software, Google wants you to sign up to use its new .dev domain. The internet address for developers is now available to all comers, the tech colossus said Thursday. For the past week, Google let people and companies sign up for .dev addresses at premium rates. But now the prices will drop, for example to …

The Android version of the Brave browser uses 35 percent less power than Google’s Chrome on ad-heavy websites, Brave said Wednesday, highlighting a major difference in a world where we often have to keep a close eye on our phone battery. On tests loading 20 news sites on a Samsung Galaxy S9 phone, Brave’s lower power consumption would let you …

The cryptocurrency frenzy has fizzled, but phone maker HTC hopes enthusiasm for the technology might sell a few phones — specifically its Exodus 1. The crypto-friendly phone will go on sale for $699 on March 1, HTC said Tuesday at the Mobile World Congress show in Barcelona. That’s the price in fiat currency, the term for money created by governments …