For all the supposed disruption that e-books brought to the publishing industry, the digital versions look still look an awful lot like the paper ones you could have bought a century ago. Nighttime orange text to avoid sleep disturbance is nice, but digital text on a tablet is basically the same as ink text on …

For years, mystery has shrouded the true identity of the creator of the electronic currency called Bitcoin. The person has been known only as Satoshi Nakamoto. Now, Australian businessman Craig Wright claims it’s him. In interviews published Monday with the BBC, GQ and the Economist, along with a blog post of his own, Wright said he is Nakamoto and offered …

An attempt to breathe new life into old-school flip phones is in trouble because a Chinese investor is withholding funds from a startup whose software is at the core of the effort. Tsinghua Unigroup International paid only the initial portion in 2015 of its planned $100 million investment in Hong Kong-based Acadine Technologies, leading the startup to warn dozens of …

Minecraft is already a hit at schools. Now Microsoft plans to release a version of its blocky video game tailored for education. A hundred schools will start testing Minecraft Education Edition in May, but more can get it in June when a free early-access program begins, Microsoft and its Mojang game studio said Thursday. Microsoft didn’t reveal how much the …

Simply by adding a checkbox, Google has made storage and photography services on the cloud vastly more useful. The checkbox opens the ability to pick which folders on the Internet-based file system called Google Drive are synchronized to your Mac or Windows PC. The change, announced Thursday, may sound minor on the surface. But for me, it’s a profound transformation. …

Freaked out by Facebook trying to fill the skies with colossal drones beaming the Internet at you? The social network giant offered two more down-to-earth technologies on Wednesday to dramatically improve network access across the world. Terragraph uses high-frequency radio waves to speed up networks where populations are dense. And ARIES aims to replace the slow wireless data service that …

The folks behind the USB Type-C standard have a new approach to keep sketchy cables from zapping your laptop or evildoers from hacking your phone. USB Type-C brings new perks to the mundane chore of connecting devices to each other and to chargers, but problems have cast a shadow — notably when Google employee Benson Leung’s effort to flag faulty …

Want to make those polished, eye-catching graphics-and-text images you see on sites like Twitter, Instagram and Facebook? Adobe Systems’ Post app for iPhone and iPad has fresher imagery and new tools for whipping them up. Tuesday’s Adobe Post 2.5 release lets the company inject new imagery into the app whenever it wants to keep you from getting stuck with stale …

A quiet announcement about a new Mozilla project sounded like a death knell for the Firefox browser. It wasn’t. But the project, called Tofino, reveals the technology challenges Mozilla faces more than a decade after Firefox’s debut. Hundreds of millions of people still use the browser, but its star is fading compared with Google’s Chrome. Mozilla released details about the …

Browser maker Brave Software wants to rid the Web of the worst parts of online advertising, but the biggest newspapers in the US have launched an attack against the “illegal” plan. Lawyers from The New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal and other members of the Newspaper Association of America published a letter Thursday that threatens legal action against …