As the nation mourns the loss of a stalwart politician and former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, many states have declared a holiday to mourn his demise. Vajpayee, who passed away on Thursday, shared a unique, special bond with Maharashtra, especially Mumbai. He was honoured by all the party leaders in Mumbai. Even with Shiv …

Amazon is reportedly considering the launch of UK insurance price comparison website. The US e-commerce giant is asking European insurance companies if they’d offer their products on such a site, Reuter reports, citing three anonymous industry executives. The executives told the news agency that the talks were several discussions Amazon is having with insurers, and that there are no immediate …

Every week Epic Games releases new challenges in Fortnite: Battle Royale to give you a boost to your experience points so you can level up your all-important Battle Pass. As you probably know, the more you level up through the Battle Pass’ tiered reward system, the more items and gear you’ll unlock, including new emotes, dance moves, gliders and more. …

Sorry Tweetbot, Twitterrific and the host of other third-party Twitter apps, the social network is moving on without you.  Fan-favorite apps like Tweetbot, which offers an alternative way to access your Twitter feed, have lost several core features thanks to changes made to Twitter’s platform. Tweetbot specifically lost instant timeline streaming on Wi-Fi, and push notifications for likes, retweets, follows …

Google on Thursday updated its Play Store app to let you choose whether or not you use your mobile network to download your next app.  In the Settings menu for the Play Store, you’ll find a new option for “app download preferences.” By default the Play Store app is set to download over any network: mobile or Wi-Fi. You can …

I thought the original $499 Samsung Odyssey might be the Windows VR headset to beat — but VR in general hasn’t been an immediately huge success, and we’ve barely heard a peep out of Microsoft’s Windows Mixed Reality since we discovered the first round of headsets were kind of a mixed bag to begin with. Mostly, we’ve seen price cuts. But as …

A US college is bringing Amazon’s Alexa onto its campus and in force. Saint Louis University will put 2,300 Amazon Echo Dots in dorm rooms by the start of classes later this month, according to the Missouri university’s blog post. The Alexa-enabled devices will answer more than 100 questions regarding the university, such as “Where is the registrar’s office?” and …

One of the biggest announcements from Samsung’s Unpacked event, where it launched the Galaxy Note 9, was that Fortnite was exclusively coming to Galaxy devices — well, at least temporarily. The game works on any Galaxy phone and tablet starting with the Galaxy S7 ($160 at eBay) and newer. But in a few days (no specific date given), it will …

Google says it’s trying to be clearer about how it tracks users on certain apps. On Thursday, the search giant updated a help page for its location tracking tools, after the company’s data collection practices had come under fire for being what some critics called misleading. Previously, the help page said: “You can turn off Location History at any time. …

Here’s Thursday’s development in the seeming last gasps of MoviePass: The menu of movies you can select from daily has shrunk to six for your $10 per month. But you can still see three of them! Unfortunately, that means no Crazy Rich Asians until Sunday — if the beleaguered company can even hold to that promise.  A new limitation in …

Now that you know how to copy an iPhone photo album to your PC, let’s look at another important process: converting those photos to a more common format. As you may recall, with the release of iOS 11, Apple switched over to HEIF technology from the long-standard JPEG. That means any photos (those taken after installing iOS 11, anyway) copied …

The Galaxy Note is widely known for its signature large screen and smart stylus, but will the new steep price-point overshadow the Note 9’s amazing features? Samsung followed Apple’s lead and released a pricey premium smartphone of its own, the Galaxy Note 9, at $1,000. Although pricey, we can’t forget to mention the Note 9 has a 4,000mAh battery, 128GB …

Apple allegedly pressured Yahoo Japan to cut back development of its game platform, a report says. The Fair Trade Commission, Japan’s antitrust watchdog, is investigating reports that Apple interfered with the potential App Store competitor, according to Nikkei. Yahoo’s Game Plus platform, launched in July 2017, lets people play games without needing to download apps. Now playing: Watch this: 11 …

On this podcast, we talk about: CNET’s review of the Galaxy Note 9, which reviewer Jessica Dolcourt calls a big, beautiful (but not super innovative) phone with a hefty price tag. T-Mobile’s latest freebie, which gives customers a year of Pandora Plus gratis. Now playing: Watch this: Galaxy Note 9: Is it really worth it? (The 3:59, Ep…. 4:52 The …

When Google employees learned the company was working on a secret drone project for the US government that could weaponize their AI research, thousands protested the so-called Project Maven — and some employees reportedly quit. Now, The New York Times reports that 1,000 employees are protesting another secret project — one that would produce a new search engine that would …