For many in the US, Labor Day is just another holiday — the last day off from work we will get during the waning days of summer (well, most of you anyway). Falling each year on the first Monday of September, Labor Day is a national holiday that honors the social and economic achievements of …

Google parent Alphabet has suspended Project Ara, its ambitious attempt to build a smartphone that lets you swap out its parts like Lego blocks, Reuters reported late Thursday. A Google spokesperson further confirmed the news to VentureBeat on Friday. Though Google has no plans to release the phone, the handset may still find itself into consumers’ hands through licensing agreements …

Editors’ note: Samsung has now officially recalled the Galaxy Note 7 worldwide. See the full story here. Samsung is planning to announce a global recall of its new Galaxy Note 7 phone in less than a week, according to South Korea’s Yonhap News Agency, amid reports that batteries in some of the devices have exploded. Word that an unprecedented recall …

A lawsuit is accusing the Golden State Warriors of a real-life technical foul, claiming the NBA team’s free app secretly uses smartphones’ microphones to listen in and record user conversations. The app, which delivers up-to-date scores, schedules and news, asks for permission to access the microphone on users’ phones. But, according to a lawsuit filed Monday in San Francisco federal …

Google is expected to host a media event next month that will focus on several hardware announcements, including new Pixel-branded phones and a 4K Chromecast, Android Police reported late Thursday. The phones will be called the Pixel and Pixel XL, unidentified sources told Android Police, although no other details, such as specs and expected released date, were available. The tech …

A judge has dismissed the heart of a lawsuit against Apple’s Beats Electronics that claimed that the high-end-headphone maker’s co-founders conspired to sever the headphone line from Monster before Apple bought the company in 2014 for $3.2 billion. The summary judgment issued late Monday by Los Angeles Superior Court Judge William Fahey resolves the key charges that claimed Beats co-founders …

Apple has doubled the maximum amount of data users can store on iCloud Drive, now offering 2 terabytes to customers of its online storage service. Apple’s new storage capacity will run customers $19.99 per month, twice the $9.99 monthly cost of its previous 1TB storage max. Consumers still have the option of getting 5GBs of storage for free. The company …

Would you like to use Apple’s stylus with your iPad? That is one of the planned software updates that will accompany hardware improvements already in development, sources tell Bloomberg. The updated iPad software, which is designed to cater to the needs of professionals, is expected to ship in 2017, the unidentified sources told the news outlet. The tech titan, which …

Apple may have a plan to make inroads in Japan’s mobile-payments market, but it doesn’t include Apple Pay, at least for now. The tech titan is working on a new iPhone for Japan that consumers can use to make payments for trips on mass transit, Bloomberg reports. But instead of the near field communication (NFC) technology that powers Apple Pay, …

On this date in 1916, President Woodrow Wilson signed into law the National Park Service Organic Act, which mandated the creation of the National Park Service “to conserve the scenery and the natural and historic objects and wildlife” found inside the United States and make them available for public enjoyment. To celebrate the centennial of the service, Google has created …