Amazon on Tuesday said it will raise its minimum wage to $15 an hour in the US, a response to mounting pressure over its wages and its treatment of warehouse workers. “We listened to our critics, thought hard about what we wanted to do, and decided we want to lead,” Amazon founder and CEO Jeff …

Students now will be able to get into their dorms and pay for meals in the university cafeteria using just their iPhones or Apple Watches. Starting Tuesday, students from three US universities will be able to add their student IDs to the Apple Wallet on their devices. That lets them use their phones and watches to pay for items or …

Microsoft has completely updated its line of Surface PCs — and launched its first high-end noise-cancelling headphones, too. The company unveiled a new Surface Pro 6 tablet, Surface Laptop 2 and Surface Studio 2 all-in-one desktop PC at a media event in New York, and surprised with its entry into the world of high-end headphones with the Surface Headphones. It also unveiled a …

It turns out watching Netflix all day is making a dent in our collective internet usage. A report by Sandvine, posted late September, has found that 15 percent of all internet bandwidth worldwide is consumed by people watching Netflix. According to Sandvine, that makes Netflix the No. 1 downstream application worldwide. The full report from Sandvine arrived on Oct. 2 …

Apple may have discontinued the iPhone SE, but you can still find the beloved-by-many model out in the wild. In fact, head to your local Walmart for one of the better deals to date. For a limited time, and while supplies last, Walmart has the iPhone SE (32GB) with one month of Family Mobile service for $139 shipped. Opt for …

Only a week out from Google’s Oct. 9 event, presumably for the new Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL phones, Google Japan posted a teaser video with 30 seconds of people squeezing things — followed by a few seconds of a hand squeezing the outline of a phone.  That seems to indicate the new phones will retain the Active Edge …

Chrome extensions are great for customizing the web browser, but Google is cracking down to try to keep them from seizing more control than you want to give them. On Monday, the company announced a host of actions to keep extensions in hand: Google will let you restrict extensions that seek to modify web pages so they only work on …

Digital screens are everywhere: on buses, in cabs, on people’s wrists, and even on the doors of refrigerators. This proliferation of screens seem to constantly vie for our attention on a daily basis. The antidote in the form of a pair of sunglasses called IRL Glasses. When you wear them, screen appear black. The glasses use horizontal polarizers to block …

IMDb, the Amazon-owned database of the entertainment world, will reportedly announce a free, ad-supported video service for Amazon Fire TV users this week. The service will feature TV shows and movies and be available to all Fire TV users (not just those with Amazon Prime Video), according to CNBC. The report follows similar rumors from August. The announcement will come this …

Tired of emailing yourself photos? Sick of being interrupted by text messages? Microsoft is making it easier to use your Windows PC to access the photos and messages on your Android phone.   The company’s new Your Phone app, included in the upcoming Windows 10 October 2018 update, displays recent photos and texts from your phone — which you can drag, …

iOS 12.1 is on its way, and with it come all sorts of new features for iPhones and iPads. But let’s forget about that for a second. What about the new emoji? On Tuesday, Apple gave a preview of the 70-plus emoji coming with the new version of iOS. The list includes new faces (like the blue freezing face, face …

Firefox Focus, Mozilla’s lightweight mobile browser, became a little more like an ordinary browser and a lot more like regular Firefox on Tuesday. Focus is a stripped-down browser initially designed for spur-of-the moment web interactions, blocking ad trackers and keeping no browsing history so you get more privacy. When it first arrived on Android, it used the built-in Google software …

The OnePlus 6T has been officially announced and here’s our review. On this podcast, we talk about: CNET’s exclusive interview with the CEO of OnePlus, and whether you’re willing to trade away your headphone jack for an in-screen fingerprint reader.  The limitations of Verizon’s 5G Home service.   Amazon lifting the minimum wage for its employees. The 3:59 gives you bite-size …

Microsoft started rolling out its Windows 10 October 2018 Update on Tuesday, the company said. It’ll become more widely available Oct. 9, according to ZDNet.  Windows 10 Insider testers and other users who want the update now can manually check for updates. Otherwise, the company will update devices when the data shows those devices are ready.  “You don’t have to do anything to …

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