This story is part of CES 2016. Our editors bring you complete CES 2016 coverage and scour the showroom floor for the hottest new tech gadgets around. The Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas is typically dominated by cutting-edge tech. Sony instead stood out with a high-fidelity turntable and an appreciation of old-school vinyl. The …

Adios short, snappy tweets? Twitter’s long-rumored move to really, really long tweets could be rolled out by the end of March, according to a report. The San Francisco company is apparently exploring different tweet lengths that go well beyond the 140-character limit that’s been the hallmark of the 10-year-old microblogging service. Twitter is currently looking at capping tweets at 10,000 …

One of social media’s newest arrivals in 2015 tweeted a simple message before amassing a world record-setting 1 million followers in four hours. “Welcome to the world Caitlyn. Can’t wait for you to get to know me.” That post was from Caitlyn Jenner, whose new Twitter handle, @Caitlyn_Jenner in June became the fastest to reach the million milestone. The former …

Mark Zuckerberg is not backing down from his quest to provide Internet service across India. The Facebook CEO responded to critics of the company’s controversial Free Basics service on Monday with an opinion piece in the Times of India. He compared free but limited Internet service to access to libraries and hospitals. While libraries “don’t contain every book,” he wrote, …

Still in its Prime, Amazon is reporting (another) record holiday sales season. The e-commerce giant announced Monday that during the week before Christmas it added more than 3 million subscribers to Prime, the $99-per-year service that offers complimentary two-day and sometimes same-day deliveries. During the holiday season, which Amazon defines as November 1 to December 19, more than 200 million …

You can’t really call 2015 the year of online harassment because the problem goes back so much further. Just ask Anita Sarkeesian and Jaclyn Friedman, who have first-hand experience with how toxic the online world can be. The activists and authors each have had to cope with death threats for speaking up about how women and others are bullied, harassed …

“The Donald” has yet again Trumped the GOP competition on social media. The front-runner in the race to become the Republican nominee for president, Donald Trump was the most talked about candidate on Twitter during Tuesday’s debate in Las Vegas, with 35 percent of all mentions. Twitter users sent more than 1.6 million debate-related tweets during the event, according to …

Twitter users in the United Kingdom can now tap into the much-hyped Moments feature to help tame all that tweeting. The social network launched on Tuesday a UK version of Moments, which uses curated tweets, videos and images to track in real time major trending events including breaking news, concerts and sporting events. UK users can follow the latest on …

Microsoft wants to bridge the technology gap. The world’s largest software maker on Tuesday said it will expand its commitment to global philanthropy under a new organization called Microsoft Philanthropies. The organization will expand Microsoft’s existing charitable contributions like donating software to nonprofit organizations and supporting computer science education. “Great technology alone is not enough,” Brad Smith, Microsoft’s president and …

Did the Washington Redskins create a fake “fan” Twitter account to drum up support for its controversial name? Could be. On Sunday, the Twitter account @RedskinsFacts, an account purportedly for a community of fans, posted a tweet that should have run on the team’s official account, @Redskins. The tweet was quickly deleted and then reposted to @Redskins. A Washington Post …