The ad-blocking Brave web browser startup has landed two blows on Google: It dumped the search engine for rival Qwant in France and Germany, and it lodged a formal complaint in Europe against Google’s ad privacy practices. Brave picked Qwant, which bills itself as “the search engine that respects your privacy,” as part of its …

Microsoft is trying a new tactic to get people to use its Edge browser: a warning dialog box that interrupts the installation of other browsers like Mozilla Firefox or Google Chrome. “You already have Microsoft Edge — the safer, faster browser for Windows 10,” a dialog box reads after you launch an installer for another browser. The process, which appears …

The A12 processors inside Apple’s iPhone XS and XS Max phones are the first to use a new, more advanced chip manufacturing technology that miniaturizes circuitry, the company said Wednesday. The chips use a 7-nanometer manufacturing process, marketing chief Phil Schiller at Apple’s iPhone launch event. A nanometer is a billionth of a meter, and smaller sizes mean more transistors …

Apple’s new iPhone XS and XS Max smartphones got two big camera features that today’s iPhone X lacks: an improved HDR mode and a bokeh adjustment slider. HDR, short for high dynamic range, is a technology that marries multiple photos into one shot to better capture both shadow details and bright highlights. A new technique called Smart HDR does better, …

Racing to make high-speed 5G networks a reality, AT&T will light up New Orleans, Houston and San Antonio, Texas; Jacksonville, Florida; and Louisville, Kentucky with the next-generation mobile technology this year. The cities will join others already announced — Atlanta; Dallas and Waco, Texas; Charlotte and Raleigh, North Carolina; Indianapolis and Oklahoma City — the company said Monday at its …

Humans have figured out lots of ways to shape metal — casting it with a mold, stamping it, drilling holes and milling surfaces in a machine shop, even zapping it with a laser. Well, now you can add a new method: 3D printing. A number of companies offer metal 3D printing, which creates products and components layer by layer with …

AT&T hopes its AirGig technology for piggybacking high-speed data links on power lines will arrive in 2021, potentially improving broadband in areas where it’s not economical to lay fiber-optic cables. AirGig doesn’t connect directly to houses. Instead, it sends data hopping along from power pole to power pole so it can traverse relatively long distances. For that final communication link …

If you like Brave but also like extensions to fine-tune your web surfing, good news: A new version of the ad-blocking browser arrived Thursday that makes it as customizable as Google’s rival Chrome. Brave Chief Technology Officer Brian Bondy announced the new version, called Brave Core, on Reddit. There’s only an early version geared for developers for now, though, and …

Exactly 10 years ago Tuesday, a newly promoted vice president named Sundar Pichai stood before a group of tech reporters in a conference room at Google’s Mountain View, California, headquarters. There, he revealed the Chrome web browser publicly for the first time. It went well, to say the least. Google’s Chrome’s first browser icon Google Over the last decade, the …

Google wants to fix one of the web’s oldest and deepest technologies: the uniform resource locator, or URL, used to give every website a unique address. “People have a really hard time understanding URLs,” Adrienne Porter Felt, an engineering manager on Chrome’s security team, said in a Wired interview published in conjunction with Chrome’s 10th anniversary on Tuesday. “We want to …