If you were alive in the 1960s or ’70s, you tuned in to “Uncle Walter” on your TV for the most important news of the day. Known as “the most trusted man in America,” Walter Cronkite was a legendary broadcast journalist many turned to for decades to get the latest news on World War II, …

Melania Trump says social media has gotten “too mean and too tough” and that if her husband is elected president next week, she’ll work to improve online civility. The wife of Republican nominee Donald Trump discussed cyberbullying during a solo speech Thursday in suburban Philadelphia. “It is never OK when a 12-year-old girl or boy is mocked, bullied or attacked. …

Ballot box selfies may be verboten in many states, but many voters will still put their phones to good use in the voting booth. There’s much at stake in this year’s election. In addition to a tight race for the White House, there are 165 propositions on the ballot in 35 states, according to Google. How do you keep them …

The lithium battery is being blamed for grounding yet another product, this time a skateboard. Boosted, a maker of electric skateboards, on Wednesday urged customers to stop using and charging its second-generation boards due to two incidents in which lithium ion batteries overheated. The company said it had suspended sales and shipping pending the results of an investigation. No injuries …

It probably seems as though a bunch of your friends on Facebook suddenly picked up and headed out to North Dakota on Monday to join the protest against the controversial Dakota Access Pipeline. Thousands of Facebook users appeared to have checked in at the Standing Rock Indian Reservation in Cannon Ball, N.D. But it’s unlikely many were actually near the …

Now playing: Watch this: Appy Halloween: Pokemon Go, Facebook, Google offer spooky… 1:56 With your help, Momo has more than a ghost of a chance of saving her school. Google The Magic Cat Academy is facing a ghostly catastrophe and Google needs your help to save it. This year’s Halloween doodle is a game that features Momo, an adorable black …

Need help discovering new TV shows? Apple may have an app for that. The tech titan is expected to unveil a new app this week that will suggest programs based on the content viewers have accessed through their Apple TVs, USA Today reported Thursday. For example, the so-called Watch List app might recommend that an FX Networks subscriber check out …

Samsung retained its global smartphone crown in the third quarter, despite the monumental recall of its Galaxy Note 7, according to a pair of reports released Wednesday. Vendors shipped 362.9 million phones worldwide in the third quarter of 2016, an increase of 1 percent over the same period last year, according to research firm IDC. Strategy Analytics’ estimates were a …

Samsung‘s third quarter went down in flames. The Korean electronics giant had pinned its hopes on the Galaxy Note 7, a phone it expected to help its rebound in the mobile market. Indeed, Samsung expected to post a modest increase in its operating profit compared with the same period last year. Samsung’s hopes were dashed, however, when the company was …

Emporio Armani may just have the worst timing — or the best. The luxury Italian fashion brand announced Tuesday it is getting into the connected wearables market with the launch of a collection of new hybrid smartwatches. In addition to the ability to sync with smartphones, the watches sport activity and sleep trackers, quartz batteries to eliminate the need to …