Facebook and its Instagram photo service remain popular places for neo-Nazis and white supremacists to sell merchandise championing an ethnostate, according to a report. Children’s T-shirts bearing slogans such as “White baby — the future of our race” and magazines supporting Nazi ideology are available on the social networks, HuffPost reported on Thursday.  Facebook reportedly removed White …

The day was dawning at popular Instagram spot Lago di Braies when a young man and his girlfriend broke into the boathouse, jumped into one of the waiting boats and paddled out across the mountain lake in Italy’s Dolomites range. It sounds so romantic. Waking at daybreak, stealing a boat, rowing out into the middle of the lake to watch …

Late last month, Guardians of the Galaxy director James Gunn was fired by Disney after a series of Gunn’s old, off-color tweets resurfaced. Unfortunately, it didn’t seem to matter that some of the tweets dated back a full 10 years, or that Gunn had previously apologized for them. Disney wasted no time in giving him the ax. The moral of …

Facebook is directing $4.5 million toward helping the news industry, by donating to a fund for nonprofit newsrooms and kicking off a program to help publishers that need memberships to make money.  The world’s largest social network, which earned more than $5 billion in profit in its latest three-month quarter, said earlier this year that it would renew its focus …

Google’s upcoming Android P software has nothing on the humble Motorola Moto Z3 Play, Moto G6 and Motorola’s other phones for 2018, for one simple reason. You can swipe left to go back. Android P, now in its third and final beta, is Google’s vision of the next version of its Android operating system. This is the software that will …

Digging around in Apple’s iOS 12 beta turned up hints of dual-SIM support for future iPhones Wednesday. Now we have an idea of what the next generation of iPads might look like.  An iPad icon found in the mobile OS may suggest an upcoming iPad will look quite a bit different than the current models, according to reports by 9to5Mac. …

The wait to get your hands on camera maker Red’s Hydrogen One phone is a little shorter today.  The phone, which is expected to deliver cinema-quality video and features a holographic display, has passed the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) approval process, as reported by CNET sister site ZDNet. As part of the process, a user manual was posted on the FCC’s website as …

In June 2012, Microsoft announced its first Surface hybrid tablet. Not only was it the first of its kind, but the first hardware designed, built and sold by Microsoft to work seamlessly with the software giant’s Windows operation system.  Since then the company has built out its Surface hardware lineup to meet the needs of students and home and professional …

Popsicle? Popcorn? Another P-word treat? Google may be planning to launch the newest version of Android later this month — and finally tell us what that P stands for. On Thursday, serial tipster Evan Blass tweeted an image of a calendar with a P marked on Aug. 20, suggesting Google has plans for the operating system that day. Google revealed …

Apple must pay Canadian patent licensing company WiLan $145.1 million in damages for patent infringement, a California jury ruled Wednesday. The jury said that some iPhone models infringed two WiLan wireless communications technology patents. One of those is for a “method and apparatus for bandwidth request protocols in a wireless communication system” and the other is for “adaptive call admission …

Amazon is getting some prime real estate on Comcast’s X1 service.  On Thursday, Amazon and Comcast said that they’ll incorporate Amazon’s streaming video service onto X1, the cable company’s high-tech pay-TV service, used by about 62 percent of its customers. The new partnership means Amazon’s library of streaming video will be available and searchable on Comcast X1, like a regular …

Where, oh where will we buy cheaply made electronic toys now? Toys R Us is gone, and now mall fixture Brookstone is joining it in brick-and-mortar purgatory.  The company filed for Chapter 11 bankcruptcy today, and has just announced it’ll be closing all 101 of its stores in shopping malls around the United States. Technically, it isn’t dead quite yet, …

Sonos makes higher-end speakers. For the past decade, CEO Patrick Spence said, the company tried to let as many people know that as possible. That’s changing. After Sonos went public Thursday morning, Spence said in an interview that his company will do a lot more to focus its message about Sonos, whose gear is well-regarded among audiophiles but not nearly …

At a Chicago press event today, Motorola announced the Moto Z3, a premium phone that features a dual 12-megapixel rear camera, 5G support and a splash-resistant design. It joins the Moto Z3 Play, which launched back in June, as part of the company’s high-end line of phones that work with magnetic snap-on accessories called Moto Mods. As Motorola’s flagship phone, the …

Corning, cover glass supplier for Apple, Samsung and other device makers, announced today its ultrastrong Gorilla Glass 6 will make its debut on Oppo’s next flagship phone.  Unveiled in July, Gorilla Glass 6 is tested to survive drops from heights of 1 meter (3.28 feet) onto rough surfaces. In its tests, the glass lasted through 15 drops, double the amount of Gorilla …