Motorola’s upcoming phones will be waterproof, have hard-to-break screens and long-lasting batteries, Google boss Larry …

Verizon Wireless customers and, in some cases, critics have been signing a petition at a torrid pace, asking the company to go contract-less. The petition on Change.org now has approximately 94,000 signatures, roughly 56,000 supporters shy of its goal of 150,000. The petition, created by “longtime Verizon customer” Mike Beauchamp of Wichita, Kan., has called the petition, simply, “Verizon: Get …

Apple stores recordings of everything you tell its robot butler Siri for two years, the Californian company has revealed. When you ask Siri something, it takes it a couple of seconds to reply. In that time, the digital assistant pings your vocal request to its vast data centre in North Carolina, which answers it and tells Siri what to say. …