For Samsung, the phone market has been feast or famine. The launch of the Galaxy S3 in 2012 crowned Samsung the world’s smartphone king and helped fuel five consecutive quarters of record profits. But the company’s phone fortunes faded as subsequent flagship handsets failed to excite consumers, leading to seven straight quarters of declining profits. …

The smartwatch market has grown at a healthy clip during the past year, but Apple may be seeing its dominance fade. Smartwatch makers shipped 4.2 million watches in the first quarter of 2016, up 223 percent from 1.3 million units in the year-ago period, according to figures released Wednesday by market researcher Strategy Analytics. Apple, which is credited with jump-starting …

Clues to the fate of two teens who went missing at sea last summer may be held by an iPhone that’s now the center of a legal battle between the boys’ families. Perry Cohen and Austin Stephanos were lost in the sea off Florida around July 24, but the phone was recovered last month along with their boat off the …

If you’re itching for Beyonce’s new album but don’t want to sign up for Tidal, don’t worry: The subscription music-streaming service’s “exclusive” on the album was short-lived. “Lemonade,” which was released exclusively on Tidal on Saturday night, was made available for purchase on Apple’s iTunes just a day later. The album is available for download at Tidal and will be …

Celebrity gossip outlet The Shade Room is on the outs with Facebook. The popular site, which boasted more than 4 million likes, has vanished from the social network, apparently for allegedly violating its terms of service. Angie Nwandu, The Shade Room’s founder, told Nieman Journalism Lab at Harvard that Facebook took down the page Monday but she didn’t know the …

Machine learning is considered by many to be tech’s next frontier. But for many researchers, its expense might as well place it in outer space. To help researchers and developers who might otherwise not have access to machine learning’s benefits, Google on Wednesday announced a new distributed version of TensorFlow, the artificial-intelligence engine the Web giant uses to add capabilities …

Google knows you have goals, and it wants to help you find time to achieve them, whether it’s exercising, spending time with family or developing a skill. The Web giant on Tuesday introduced a new assistive feature to Google Calendar that help you find time in your busy schedule for your desired activity. After asking a few simple questions about …

North Carolina’s controversial new transgender law is facing even stiffer opposition. Popular porn website XHamster.com began turning away users based in North Carolina on Monday, joining protests against a state law that forces transgender public school and university students to use bathrooms according to their biological sex. Instead of the usual fare of risqué videos, photos and stories, users with …

Fresh off cracking a terrorist’s iPhone, the FBI has agreed to help prosecutors in Arkansas unlock an iPhone and iPod belonging to two teenagers accused of murder. Cody Hiland, a prosecuting attorney in Faulkner County, told the Associated Press on Wednesday that the FBI had approved a request from his office and the Conway Police Department to crack the devices’ …

The iPad is getting called up to the big leagues. Apple’s tablet will be in every Major League Baseball dugout this year as part of a multiyear deal between the tech titan and the league, according to the Wall Street Journal. The 12.9-inch iPad Pro devices will be on hand for coaches looking to analyze players’ performance stats from current …