Microsoft Edge still has a way to go before it wins any “browser of the year” awards, but it’s a much better browser after the Windows 10 Anniversary Update. The improvements include support for browser extensions, a right-click history menu and click-to-play Flash video. In other words, it might be time to consider switching over …

Can you trust Facebook’s Trending Topics? The world’s largest social network hit a new snag over the weekend, promoting an erroneous news story about Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly. The story was put on the site’s Trending Topics, a list on the top right of Facebook’s main page, which is visited by more than 1.7 billion people each month. The …

In the never-ending arms race for mobile data plans, T-Mobile recently ditched the conventional approach altogether in favor of a simpler unlimited data, voice and text plan called One. But unlimited means different things to different people, and there was an immediate backlash against the new plan’s limitations on device tethering and HD video playback. Higher-speed tethering and HD video …

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Gene Wilder, a comedy icon who entertained a generation on the screen and later fueled an online meme machine, is dead at 83. His nephew, Jordan Walker-Pearlman, said Wilder died Monday of complications from Alzheimer’s disease. When Wilder was at the top of his game in the 1970s, he was one of the biggest-name comic actors around, starring in classics …

Now playing: Watch this: Apple likely to unveil new iPhones on September 7 1:48 Enlarge Image Apple The next iPhone will probably be revealed to the world on September 7. And maybe a watch, too. Apple made it official today, confirming the previously rumored date of the first Wednesday in September. The venue is once again at Bill Graham Civic …

There are a lot of Pokemon Go tips out there. Some are helpful and a bunch of them are just fiction. I tried out a handful of tips and did some research to zero in on the stinkers. Here’s what I found. Myth: Hatch this egg to get that Pokemon There have been a bunch of charts circulating the internet …

Australian Netflix customers are going to have a tougher time watching geoblocked movies and TV shows after local VPN provider uFlix announced it has pulled support for unblocked Netflix content. The Melbourne-based company promises its users access to overseas content normally unavailable in Australia — through services such as Hulu, HBO Now and BBC iPlayer — for a monthly fee. …

Hoping for a Roku 5 to succeed the Roku 4? You may be disappointed by this report. According to ZatzNotFunny.com‘s correlation of an FCC leak against a Canadian computer sales website published Saturday, the streaming company could be debuting up to five streaming devices this fall that would add HDR picture capabilities and give each of the streamers a name …

Nobody likes getting socked with a charge for going over a monthly wireless data cap. And thanks to changes made by the nation’s two largest carriers, those days may be over forever. Earlier this summer AT&T and Verizon said they’d eliminate charges for customers who bust their data caps, in exchange for slowing service to 2G speeds. It’s a policy …

Everyone loves to hear Kanye West say crazy things (admit it), and usually he reserves his craziest outbursts for the MTV Video Music Awards. He gave a six-minute speech at tonight’s VMAs, but that’s not what social media was buzzing about afterwards. Instead, the birds were tweeting about Drake and Rihanna. Presenting the Video Vanguard award (MTV’s lifetime achievement honour) …

I go way back with Rega, back to the 1980s when I worked in high-end audio sales. Rega was my go-to ‘table for aspiring audiophiles on a budget, and Rega only made two models: Planar 2 and Planar 3. Those two were very similar, but the ‘3 had a slightly different plinth/base, platter and mat. I typically sold one or …

This is part of our Road Trip 2016 summer series “Life, Disrupted,” about how technology is helping with the global refugee crisis — if at all. Maria Booth and I sit at a table at Mälarpaviljongen, a gay-friendly bar and cafe in Stockholm. It’s a sunny, breezy day on the Baltic waterway that surrounds the city. The cafe’s floating patio …

I’ll start with the obvious: most audio specs are nearly useless to consumers — frequency response, total harmonic distortion, slew rate, input sensitivity — fuhgetaboutit. The most useful specs are the ones that average people understand, like the product’s size (dimensions) and weight. Duhhh — is the product too big or small for your needs? At home, heavier speakers and …

Some people like to live on the edge, but daredevil Flaviu Cernescu prefers to unicycle on the edge. On Wednesday, Cernescu posted a YouTube video of himself and a friend having fun on top of a very tall abandoned factory chimney measuring 840 feet high (256 meters) at CET Targu Jiu in Romania. Related stories Courageous couple scales crane perched …