Chinese authorities have apparently squelched another service — Facebook‘s WhatsApp text-messaging service. The popular app — more than a billion people use WhatsApp, at least until the China ban — opens up an encrypted communication channel between two people. That encryption protects your privacy but also makes life hard for law enforcement, spies, and other forms …

When Siri can’t give you an answer, it’ll now be Google filling in the gaps in Apple’s knowledge instead of Microsoft’s Bing search service. The Siri voice assistant built into iPhones, Macs and soon Apple’s HomePod smart speaker can handle plenty of requests, like reporting a stock price or defining a word you don’t know. When it can’t, it searches …

We’d only been living in Manhattan for a few weeks when my in-laws came to stay. On our way home from visiting the spectacular One World Trade Center, we had to take a couple different subways, through which my wife and I steered the out-of-towners with little difficulty. “I’m just amazed,” my mother-in-law Theresa said, “at how quickly you’ve adapted …

Big, expensive crystal home-decor pieces aren’t for everyone, or even most people. But for the few who are on the market for items such as crystal vases and bowls, shopping may have gotten a bit easier. Mastercard and Swarovski said Monday they’ve teamed up to create a new virtual-reality shopping app for browsing through a virtual home filled with crystal …

President Donald Trump’s escalating war of words with North Korea’s leadership on Twitter has many wondering why some of his tweets aren’t being deleted by the social media platform, despite their apparent violation of its rules. Twitter’s rules forbid using the service to make violent threats, either direct or indirect. Accounts violating that rule may be subject to a temporary …

Now that they’re free, operating system updates are often just as much about fixing the underlying plumbing of a device as they are about adding new and notable features. That’s largely the case with MacOS 10.13, otherwise known as High Sierra.  For the most part, don’t expect jaw-dropping changes or totally new interfaces. Instead, you get new features such as …

Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that’s taken over our lives Not impressed. Funny or Die/YouTube screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET Are you forcing yourself to (still) be excited about the iPhone X? Are you resisting the urge to just go and buy an 8 Plus and instantly enjoy the wonders of wireless charging? Are you worried, though, …

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Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that’s taken over our lives. Can Google turn millions into Pixellites? CNET Try this experiment. Walk up to people who don’t work in tech — surely you know at least one — and ask them what they think about Pixel phones. I fancy they’ll stare at you benignly and wonder …

Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that’s taken over our lives. Naturally. IKEA You may have spent the whole weekend in rapt excitement about the fact that you can actually charge your new iPhone 8 wirelessly. Your Samsung-owning friends probably haven’t stopped chuckling. Even Ikea has decided that Cupertino embrace of (not very) new technology is …

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