Wondering how fast your internet performance is on your smartphone or tablet? Netflix has launched a mobile speed test app to answer that question. Rolled out on Tuesday for both Apple iOS and Android users, Netflix’s Fast Speed Test estimates your present internet download speed. To determine your speed, the app runs a series of …

Facebook is kicking up the battle over ad blockers. The social media juggernaut said it will circumvent ad-blocking technology designed to strip commercial messages from websites, helping it serve more ads and make more money. The millions of consumers who use ad blockers may not be too pleased. We also hit on Sling TV adding NFL content to its streaming …

How can we ever have an Olympics in the future without Michael Phelps? He’s either winning enough medals to knock himself over if he ever wore them all, or he’s naming his son Boomer. And now comes #PhelpsFace. Phelps pulled the now-infamous expression on Monday night at the Rio Games, as his South African rival Chad Le Clos danced around …

UK residents must have access to better banking apps, a regulatory body has said. In a new report published today, the Competition and Market’s Authority says that big UK banks aren’t doing enough to compete for customers’ business, and orders a “revolution” in banking mobile tech. That would see new apps released by early 2018, with banks forced to share …

We’re about a month away from Apple’s expected unveiling of its newest iPhone, so we used this episode to discuss many of the rumors circulating about new versions of the phone, Apple Watch and MacBook Pro. There are a few hardware tweaks expected for the iPhone 7, including Apple cutting out the headphone jack to make the phone slimmer and …

Add SoundCloud Go to the long list of music streaming services you can access on the Sonos multiroom wireless speaker system. The company announced an update on Tuesday that adds support for the monthly subscription service that many call the “YouTube for audio.” The premium Go tier began in March and kills the ads found on the free version of …

Google Fiber announced more than a year ago that it was exploring ways to bring its super-speedy internet service to San Jose, California. Now, months after city officials approved the major construction needed to make it happen, the subsidiary of Google parent company Alphabet is hesitating. According to a report Tuesday in the San Jose Mercury News, officials with Google …

Walmart is ponying up $3.3 billion to buy Jet.com so it can strengthen its online shopping muscle. This means we’ll all be racing to Walmart.com, right? Eh, maybe. The world’s largest retailer has been getting a lot more aggressive in e-commerce over the past year, introducing an Amazon Prime-like unlimited shipping service called ShippingPass, expanding its online inventory and setting …

The Walt Disney Company is buying a big stake in Major League Baseball’s BAMTech streaming-media unit, clearing the way for sports network ESPN to soon launch a new “multi-sport subscription service.” Potentially changing the way we will watch sports, Disney is paying $1 billion for a 33 percent interest in BAMTech, the company said Tuesday during its quarterly earnings report. …

What’s the longest amount of time you’ve spent looking for a song you heard in the wild? No joke, I heard a track at a party once and it took me almost a decade humming the harmony to record store clerks to identify it. Of course, that could’ve been a 10-second inquiry if Shazam had been around back then, which …

Australians complained of slow website load times and problems completing the census online, but the cause of #CensusFail may be something far more serious. The Australian Bureau of Statistics said it was hit with a deliberate and “malicious” attack from offshore, designed to sabotage the 2016 Census. The bureau had called on the whole of Australia to “go online on …

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Tech-giant Google has added three features to its popular navigational and mapping app, Google Maps. For Android users who don’t want to incur data charges or have to succumb to the fact that they live in an area with spotty network coverage, you now have the option to access Maps only when you’re on a Wi-Fi network, through the settings …

Google plans to begin pushing Adobe Flash Player closer to its inexorable grave at the end of the year with a new version of its Chrome web browser. Chrome 55, which the web giant plans to release in December, will replace Flash with HTML5, Google said on Monday. Noting that the browser plug-in has played a key role in the …

If the rumors and leaked product photos are to be believed, the iPhone 7 won’t have a headphone jack. The horror! This might require a little decision-making, either now or down the road. Obviously you can keep your current iPhone if you like (at least for a while), or you can call Apple’s bluff and switch to Android. Enlarge Image …