Apple AirPods: nice, but crazy-expensive, and not good at blocking outside noise. That’s why we’re constantly on the lookout for inexpensive AirPods alternatives. One of our top picks of 2019: The Anker Soundcore Liberty Air, which at $80 are half the price of AirPods and, to some ears, even better sounding. Now they’re even cheaper: …

I’m not what you’d probably think of as a typical GoPro user. I spend my weekends biking around my neighborhood with my kids, not barreling downhill on a longboard or jumping in a backyard pool and not off a cliff in Hawaii. What I can tell you, though, is that the new $400 (AU$600, £380) GoPro Hero 8 Black makes …

Pandora redesigned its app Tuesday to better showcase how it’s evolved beyond the radio-like streaming-music service it started out as more than a decade ago. The latest update adds more ways to tweak the kind of song Pandora plays next and introduces a main discovery feed that personalizes recommendations throughout the day, while it also highlights more formats like podcasts and SiriusXM content.  As …

Amazon is apparently working to spread cashierless technology from its Go stores to other retailers. The e-commerce giant is talking to OTG, which operates airport concessions, and Cineworld, the company behind Regal theaters, about using equipment from its futuristic, automated stores, CNBC reported Monday. The company is also looking at concession stands in baseball stadiums, CNBC noted.  Now playing: Watch this: …

If you’re an athlete, sponsor, journalist or volunteer at the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo, you’ll be using a facial recognition system from Japanese electronics giant NEC and chipmaker Intel to get where you need to be. Intel is collaborating with NEC to provide “a large-scale face recognition system for the Olympics,” said Ricardo Echevarria, general manager of Intel’s Olympics program. …

Google is tweaking its Pixel phones’ Emergency Information app to automatically call 911 if you get into a car crash, XDA Developers reported Monday. It’s unclear whether the feature will come to all Pixel phones or just to the upcoming Pixel 4. The updated app, which is being renamed Personal Safety, will use your location and sensor readings from the accelerometer …

A decade after it launched the original fan-favorite Sensei ambidextrous mouse, which we called “phenomenal,” SteelSeries is bringing out an upgraded Sensei Ten in the original design with internal advancements over the current Sensei 310. Most notably, the wired Sensei Ten introduces the PixArt TrueMove Pro sensor, which bumps up the performance with a maximum CPI (counts per inch) of …

The coalition Facebook assembled to create a global payments network may be losing some key financial support. Visa, Mastercard and other financial partners who signed on to support Libra are reconsidering their involvement in the network, The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday. The financial partners are reluctant to attract regulatory scrutiny following backlash from governments and banks and have declined …

I’m a strong believer in having a backup phone. You just never know when your daily driver is going to get lost, stolen, broken or whatever. Your whole life is in that thing, so it makes sense to have a spare you can whip out if the need arises. Meanwhile: kids. At some point you’re probably going to give in …

A hacker is reportedly claiming responsibility for a September data breach of popular mobile game Words with Friends that may have resulted in the theft of information from more than 200 million players accounts, including names, email addresses, login IDs and more. A hacker that goes by the name Gnosticplayers said they stole data from over 218 million Words with Friends player …

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