Apple released an update to its iOS mobile operating system on Tuesday to correct a handful of bugs, including a fix to eliminate a disruptive sound that some iPhone 8 users are experiencing through their earpieces during phone calls. Not long after the iPhone debuted last month, users began complaining in online forums of hearing …

The mass shooting in Las Vegas earlier this week brought the mood on Twitter to its lowest level ever Monday. The Hedonometer, a tool that measures the happiness of millions of Twitter users based on their posts, showed an average happiness level of 5.77 after news of the massacre began spreading. The mass shooting claimed the lives of 59 people …

An online campaign to raise money to help the victims of the deadly Las Vegas shooting has raised nearly $3 million in less than 24 hours. The GoFundMe campaign was created Monday by Steve Sisolak, the Clark County Commission chair from Las Vegas. The campaign passed its original $2 million goal on Monday evening. Sisolak then reset the goal to $3.5 …

About 10 million Facebook users saw Russian-linked ads placed on its service during the 2016 US election campaign, the social media giant said Monday. About 44 percent of the ads were seen before election, while 56 percent were seen afterward, Elliot Schrage, the company’s vice president of policy and communications, wrote in a blog post. The figures were among the …

Now playing: Watch this: Kim Dotcom runs into a legal dead end 1:19 Kim Dotcom lost his legal battle to keep the US government from seizing his overseas assets. CBS The US Supreme Court on Monday rejected MegaUpload founder Kim Dotcom‘s challenge to the US government’s seizure of overseas assets. The court left in place a federal appeals court ruling …

Social media accounts linked to the Russian government attempted to intensify racial tensions during the US elections in 2016, CNN reported late Thursday. The accounts, which used the moniker “Blacktivist,” regularly shared content intended to fuel the outrage of their audiences, including videos of police violence against African Americans. “Black people should wake up as soon as possible,” read one …

If you were planning to use a drone to get a bird’s-eye view of the Statue of Liberty on your next visit, the Federal Aviation Administration is warning you to think again. The same goes for Mount Rushmore and a handful of other Interior Department sites after the FAA issued a directive Thursday that prohibits flights of unmanned aerial vehicles …

Attempts by Russia-linked social media accounts to influence events in the US apparently weren’t limited to last year’s US election. A network of Twitter accounts suspected of links to Russia were used this weekend to stoke the controversy over whether NFL players should stand for pregame performances of the national anthem, The New York Times reported late Wednesday. The accounts …

Apple is developing a software fix to eliminate a disruptive sound that some iPhone 8 users are experiencing through their earpieces during phone calls, an issue first reported by The Verge. “Dozens” of iPhone 8 users have reported in online forums hearing a “crackling” or “static” sound that disrupts the audio when they make calls, the site reported Tuesday. The …

Paul Horner, a leading peddler of fake news and internet hoaxes during the 2016 election, has died at the age of 38. Horner was discovered dead in his bed on Sept. 18, Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office spokesman Mark Casey said in a statement Wednesday. Casey said evidence found at the scene southwest of Phoenix suggested Horner died of an accidental …