An Evangelical church in Sweden plans to use military drones to try to persuade Muslims in Syria to convert to Christianity. But instead of using the unmanned aerial vehicles to drop bombs, Livets Ord plans to drop Bibles — thousands of electronic copies — over the region wracked by religious-inspired violence in recent years. The …

Google plans to begin pushing Adobe Flash Player closer to its inexorable grave at the end of the year with a new version of its Chrome web browser. Chrome 55, which the web giant plans to release in December, will replace Flash with HTML5, Google said on Monday. Noting that the browser plug-in has played a key role in the …

Apple may not have given up on TV programming after all. After pausing plans last year for a service that would stream live TV over the internet, the company is now focusing on creating a digital TV guide that would work on Apple TV boxes, iPhones and iPads, according to a Recode report Thursday. Apple is in talks with TV …

Google wants you to know that the Olympics aren’t the only games in town. To mark the opening of the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro on Friday, the web giant is launching a series of interactive doodles championing its own 2016 Doodle Fruit Games. During the next couple of weeks, fruit such as coconuts, strawberries and watermelons from …

It’s finally game on for daily fantasy sports in New York. DraftKings and FanDuel will be able to operate legally in the Empire State after Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Wednesday signed into law a bill legalizing daily fantasy sports websites. Cuomo’s signature ends a contentious nine months for the sites that began in November when New York Attorney General Eric …

Now playing: Watch this: All Basis Peak fitness watches recalled over burn concerns 1:21 Intel on Wednesday issued a recall of its Basis Peak fitness watch, urging owners to immediately discontinue use of the device out of concern that overheating could cause burns. The company first shared its concerns of overheating in June, pinning its hopes for a solution on …

The public’s love affair with tablets appears to be over. The market for slates slid more than 12 percent in the second quarter, according to data released Monday by market researcher IDC, the seventh consecutive decline in quarterly shipments. The sector saw 38.7 millions shipped during the quarter compared with 44.1 million units in the year-ago period. Following several years …

Twitter is hoping to bring more basketball fans to its court through a partnership with the National Basketball Association for exclusive live programming. The league and social network are teaming up to live-stream a new weekly NBA pregame show that will be delivered exclusively to Twitter users, the pair said Tuesday. The show will feature elements designed to stimulate and …

Facebook activated its Safety Check feature on Thursday after a truck rammed a Bastille Day celebration in Nice, France, killing more than 70 people and injuring scores more. It’s the third time in a little more than a month that the social network has activated the tool, which lets Facebook users who are at or near the site of a …

One of the victims of a triple shooting in Virginia on Tuesday inadvertently broadcast the attack live to Facebook. The video, uploaded by Facebook user TJ Willams, shows three men in their late 20s sitting in a car in Norfolk, smoking and singing along to music. To share the fun on Facebook, one of the victims uses his phone to …