Donald Trump may have used Wednesday night’s debate with Hillary Clinton to test the waters for a new, much-rumored TV network. As the candidates prepared to square off for the third and final presidential debate at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, the Republican nominee for president posted a live feed to the debate with …

Android Pay, Google’s mobile payments service for phones running the OS, arrived in Hong Kong on Wednesday. The launch will allow Android handset owners to use their devices to complete transactions at more than 5,000 retail locations in Hong Kong, including 7-Eleven, Circle K, McDonald’s and Fortress, Google said in a statement. The search giant’s latest attempt to spur people …

Conan O’Brien thanks social media for rescuing his career. The comedian and talk show host said Wednesday that if it weren’t for an organic uprising of fans on Twitter, he would not have his show on TBS. O’Brien, who left NBC in 2010 over a “Tonight Show” scheduling disagreement, credited the social network at Vanity Fair’s New Establishment Summit in …

Last month’s controversial “Bowl of Skittles” tweet is drawing some legal heat for Donald Trump and those closest to his campaign for president. The image set off a Twitter tempest in September after it was included in a tweet sent by Donald Trump Jr. that compared Syrian refugees to poisoned Skittles. The tweet, which was designed to support his father’s …

Ecuador confirmed Tuesday that it severed Julian Assange’s internet access over concerns the WikiLeaks founder was using it to interfere with the US presidential election. Assange, who has been living in asylum in Ecuador’s embassy in London for four years, lost his internet privileges last weekend, a move that the Ecuadorian embassy took responsibility for on Monday. The Ecuadorian government …

Twitter’s Wild West image may have cost it a place in the Magic Kingdom. The Walt Disney Company opted not to pursue a deal for the microblogging network partly due to concern that its reputation as a place for bullying and abusive behavior might sully the media giant’s wholesome image, Bloomberg reported Monday. Disney was among a handful of prominent …

Booking flights online is stressful enough without having to worry about whether the price will go up if you wait until tomorrow. To remove the mystery and help alleviate some of that anxiety, Google Flight on Monday rolled out an update that includes notifications informing you when a current fare will expire and how much you can expect to save …

If you’re worried about flying on a plane where passengers may have a Samsung Galaxy Note 7, the airlines want you to know it’s in the bag. Airlines have begun installing fire-containment bags on their planes to address the threat posed by overheating lithium ion batteries in mobile devices during flights. Alaska Airlines and Virgin America have already stocked their …

Facebook, Twitter and Instagram provided feeds of user data to a social-media monitoring program used by police to track racially charged protests in Oakland, Calif., and Baltimore, according to an ACLU report released Tuesday. The monitoring program, created by Chicago-based Geofeedia, often included users’ locations and other personal information that was passed on to 500 law enforcement and safety agencies, …

The global PC market continued its downward spiral in the third quarter, registering its eighth consecutive quarter of declining shipments, its longest slump in the PC industry’s history. PC makers shipped 68.9 million personal computers in the quarter, a 5.7 percent decline from a year ago, according to numbers released Tuesday by research firm Gartner. The quarter’s poor performance was …