Now playing: Watch this: Intel turns to Overwatch to show off seventh-generation… 0:57 The PC industry’s glory days, when people snapped up new computers powered by steadily faster chips, are over. But Intel thinks its newest PC processor will get some hearts racing in a few months. At its Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco …

There’s no turning back now for USB Type-C. Samsung has embraced the new data and charging port for its Galaxy Note 7, announced Tuesday as the latest model in a lineage of high-end stylus-equipped phones. It’s not the first phone maker to embrace USB Type-C, but with 24 percent of the first quarter’s 349 million phone market, it’s the most …

Mozilla has begun shipping a new version of Firefox designed to improve core technology that is essential to keeping users loyal in a fiercely competitive browser market. Through a Firefox project called Electrolysis, “users should experience a Firefox that is less susceptible to freezing and is generally more responsive to input,” said Nick Nguyen, Mozilla’s vice president of Firefox, in …

Using Microsoft’s new Edge browser? Now you can use a popular utility called Adblock Plus to sweep away advertisements that can pop in front of website content, slow loading speeds, drain your phone batteries, invade your privacy — and provide the revenue websites need to survive. Adblock Plus already has been available for other browsers, including Microsoft’s old Internet Explorer. …

A bold plan to rid the web of obnoxious advertising just came one step closer to reality. Browser maker Brave said Monday that it has raised a seed round of $4.5 million, money that will go toward its browser and its technology for replacing conventional web ads with its own. The investors are Founders Fund, the high-profile venture capitalist firm …

Your iPhone has a built-in camera app, but Microsoft hopes to lure you to a new alternative called Pix that’s packed with computing smarts. Pix combines several advanced technologies: artificial intelligence, computational photography and video stabilization. But it isn’t like Photoshop, with hundreds of options and abilities for you to consider. Instead, it’s designed to improve your photos and videos …

Mozilla may finally have a reason for you to check out the Firefox browser for your iPhone. A new version, set for release Tuesday, cuts processor use by 40 percent and memory use by 30 percent, according to the nonprofit organization. The result is a more power-efficient mobile browser that may potentially help your phone run a full day without …

Apple has begun trial runs with a Google graphics technology in a significant endorsement for an effort get websites to load faster. Support for that technology, an image format known as WebP, is built into test versions of iOS 10 and MacOS Sierra, the forthcoming editions of Apple’s core software for iPhones, iPads and Macs. But WebP support is by …

Adobe Systems is adding some muscle to the mobile versions of its Lightroom software for taking and editing photos. The company on Wednesday released new Lightroom apps for iOS-powered iPhones and iPads from Apple and rival devices powered by Google’s Android. Each version gets different improvements — new editing power for iOS and new shooting controls for Android. But both …

Mozilla hopes to make Firefox faster and more secure with a project called Servo, which offers the bonus of a darling icon. Mozilla The Firefox browser has had a rough go in the last few years. The number of people using Mozilla’s browser has dwindled as the world has embraced Google’s Chrome and started using phones where Firefox has a …