“A penny for your thoughts” puts a rather measly price tag on your intellectual productions, doesn’t it? Well, now Google is offering iPhone users a full 99 cents more for their opinions. The tech giant said Wednesday that its Google Opinion Rewards app has arrived on iOS in the United States. The app offers you …

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Forget Face ID or bezel-less screens, the future of the iPhone may be foldable. Apple is reportedly partnering with LG to create foldable OLED displays for an upcoming generation of iPhones. The folding iPhones are set for production in 2020, according to Korean news outlet The Bell (via The Investor). The recently announced iPhone X represents a significant design change for …

What’s the state of Facebook’s virtual-reality technology? We’ll find out today in San Jose. Oculus, the social network’s VR subsidiary, kicks off its fourth annual developers conference today in the heart of Silicon Valley. But with the virtual-reality movement seemingly stuck in neutral, the company has more to prove than ever.  The day one keynote is scheduled to run from …

AT&T‘s foray into the online streaming video business is slowly gaining ground.  The Dallas telecommunications giant disclosed in a Securities and Exchange Commission filing that it had added a net 300,000 customers to its DirecTV Now streaming service in the third quarter. That’s compared to the 491,000 customers it added in the first half of the year. Overall, the company …

A dedicated Taylor Swift social network called The Swift Life is the next project from the maker of the Kim Kardashian: Hollywood app, Glu Mobile. The app is due in “late 2017” and will let fans “connect with Taylor and each other through message boards, quizzes, etc” TechCrunch reports. According to the promotional video above, the app looks similar to …

Congressional leaders say they plan to publicly release thousands of politically divisive Facebook ads purchased by Russian-linked operatives during the 2016 US presidential election. Representatives Mike Conaway and Adam Schiff, leaders of the US House of Representatives Intelligence Committee’s Russia investigation, said Wednesday that they were working with the company to release the ads publicly after meeting with Facebook chief …

Facebook users around the world experienced an outage of the social network Wednesday, which appears to be continuing for many. “Earlier today, a networking issue caused some people to have trouble accessing Facebook services,” a company representative said. “We quickly investigated and started restoring access within about an hour, and we have nearly fixed the issue for everyone. We’re sorry …

Good news for budget VR shoppers: it’s a good year for discounts. Facebook and Oculus announced that the Rift and Touch, Oculus’ VR hardware for PCs that launched last year, is keeping its summer discount price of $399. That’s roughly half what Rift and Touch used to cost. Hopefully you didn’t buy it when it was more expensive. As we …

The Oculus Rift, Facebook’s PC-based VR system, has great controllers but it lacks the stand-up camera sensors it needs to work in a full room like a holodeck, like its rival the HTC Vive. That sounds like it’s changing next year with a “Santa Cruz” Rift model that will leave those sensors behind. It was announced in a keynote Wednesday at the Oculus …

When you need to jot down an idea, check something off your to-do list or scan a business-trip receipt, free tools are plentiful — think Microsoft OneNote, Google Keep, Apple Notes, Dropbox Paper and more. But Chris O’Neill, chief executive of Evernote, the company that pioneered the technology, thinks it’s worth paying for — so much so that Evernote raised …

Apple fans aren’t the only people excited for the iPhone X‘s release — scammers are, too. The iPhone X isn’t available until Nov. 3, but thieves are already spamming social networks with schemes trying to trick you into giving away personal information. These scams are designed to look like free iPhone X giveaway offers. ZeroFOX, a social media security company, …

Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that’s taken over our lives. As the launch of iPhone X gets closer, it’s fair to ask: “Is anyone really excited?” At the time of its unveiling, I talked to real people who mostly felt very meh about Apple’s so-called “smartphone of the future.” Yet along comes investment bank Piper …

Virtual reality was one of the marquee tech trends of last year, but it’s gone a little stale.  Facebook is trying to shake that up with its Oculus Connect developer conference Wednesday. Special guest CNET editor Scott Stein and I talk about what it’s going to take for virtual reality to be something anyone would want — and not just …

Is Razer making a phone? A new teaser gives that impression. Razer tweeted Wednesday to expect news on Nov. 1, accompanying the tweet with a picture of a fella holding an obscured device. WATCH for our biggest unveiling… 👁️https://t.co/gwrwrxbhf9 pic.twitter.com/OyBFVocHOF — RΛZΞR (@Razer) October 11, 2017 Rumours of a Razer phone go back several months, with Bloomberg in July reporting …