It was an absence that lasted just 11 minutes, but it got everyone’s attention. For that length of time on Thursday — about as much as it takes to make a pot of coffee — Donald Trump’s personal Twitter account went missing. We’re talking here about one of the main ways that the president of …

If you’re relying on Slack to get some work done before heading out for Halloween, you’re getting more trick than treat Tuesday evening. The workplace messaging app, which has more than 6 million daily users, went down around 4 p.m. PT and is still down at this writing. The latest update at Slack’s system status page at 5:22 p.m. PT …

Now playing: Watch this: Apple may call it quits with Qualcomm in future iPhones 1:47 Apple may be looking to squeeze Qualcomm out of its devices entirely. Apple, which is locked in a fierce battle with Qualcomm over patents and licensing fees, is designing iPhones and iPads for next year that would ditch the chipmaker’s components, The Wall Street Journal …

Roger Stone, a longtime associate of President Donald Trump, has been suspended by Twitter after lashing out at CNN anchor Don Lemon on Friday. The suspension came after Stone went on a Twitter rant, calling Lemon a “dumb piece of shit” after CNN reported an indictment had been filed in an investigation into Russian involvement in the 2016 election. Twitter …

If you’re thinking of buying Google’s new Pixel 2 XL smartphone, the tech giant wants you to know you won’t get burned by possible display burn-in issues. Google, reacting to reports that some Pixel 2 XL phones are suffering from screen burn-in, said Thursday it would double the length of the warranty on the new smartphone to two years. The …

President Donald Trump has relaxed some of the rules governing commercial use of drones, allowing for greater testing of unmanned aerial vehicles by tech companies such as Amazon and Wing, a unit of Google parent Alphabet. A directive Trump issued Wednesday expands testing for flights over people, nighttime operations and at far greater distances and with packages. The program encourages …

Walmart has long trumpeted the cost savings it offers customers, but despite reports to the contrary, it has no immediate plans to push Apple Macs on employees to save itself some money. Walmart supposedly offered a peek at the program Wednesday during the Jamf Nation User Conference, one of the largest gatherings of Apple system administrators in the world. Walmart …

The iPhone X won’t be available for presale for a couple more days, but that hasn’t stopped Apple from overhauling its home pages to promote its new flagship phone. Veteran observers of presales will recall that Apple’s home page traditionally goes “down for maintenance” a few hours before presales begin so that Apple can prominently promote the new device or …

Amazon is putting a cork in its wine sales marketplace after five years. The internet retail giant began notifying wine sellers Monday it would shut down its Amazon Wine business at the end of the year. The marketplace, which launched in 2012, offers hundreds of wines that can be ordered directly from the winery through Amazon. As “Amazon continues to …

It appeared Sunday that Google may have a lifeline for struggling news publishers, but that might not be the case after all. The Financial Times reported Sunday that the web giant is planning to share a chunk of its revenue with publishers. According to FT, Google’s plan is to mate its treasure trove of personal data with machine learning algorithms …