Amazon Prime has an estimated 60 million members in the US, reaches 11 countries and even has its own fake holiday. For CEO Jeff Bezos, that’s not nearly enough. The world’s largest e-commerce company has been busy finding new ways to evolve and expand the $99-a-year Prime loyalty program. This week, Prime launched in India, …

Unless you’ve used its Stylus app or its handwriting-based calculator app (iOS, Android), chances are you’ve never heard of MyScript. But it’s the company behind much of the handwriting recognition built into software note-taking apps (such as the cloud-based recognition of the Bamboo Spark) as well as model-specific operating-system extensions for high-end tablets and hybrid laptops. Now the company is …

Who doesn’t delight in a great television love story? And no, I’m not talking about the endlessly frustrating “will they or won’t they?” trope. I’m talking about my favorite kind of pairing — the bromance. The bromance celebrates best friends. It’s just two dudes, supporting each other. Troy and Abed from “Community.” Joey and Chandler of “Friends.” Turk and JD …

Now playing: Watch this: Watch how we did a clean install of Windows 10 2:59 If you have a Windows 7 or 8 computer, you have until July 29 to upgrade it to Windows 10 for free. While your data, apps and most of your system settings will remain intact, upgrading tends to adversely affect performance. This post will show …

If you’ve got $90,000, you can own the site publishing some of the best Harry Potter/2016 US presidential election mashup fan fiction around. Just when it seems as if this election cycle couldn’t possibly get any more strange, leave it to domain squatters to inject a little extra serving of the absurd. Last Friday, Hillary Clinton announced her pick of …

Republic Wireless, which uses local Wi-Fi networks to patch through phone calls and send texts, is adding several new Android handsets to its lineup and shaking up its pricing structure. The carrier will begin selling the following phones at full unlocked prices (users can pay monthly installments over 18 months as well): Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge ($799 or $48/month) Samsung …

A photographer renowned for her Americana-themed pictures is suing stock-photo agency Getty Images for $1 billion for copyright infringement. Carol Highsmith filed a federal lawsuit Monday in New York claiming the agency and its subsidiaries have been charging fees for the use of her more than 18,000 images without her consent. Photographer Carol Highsmith says stock-photo agency Getty Images wanted …

Silvia Scandar Mahan traveled to Philadelphia for her summer vacation. Now, she’s putting in more hours than she does at Cor, the San Francisco digital media startup where she works. From 9:30 a.m. until after midnight, the 33-year-old is producing video that tells the stories of delegates at the Democratic National Convention, where Hillary Clinton was officially named the party’s …

In June, Facebook announced it was adding a favorites section to the main screen of Messenger. Instead of opening the app to find only your recent conversation list, the home view is no broken up by a row of profile pics for your favorite Messenger contacts followed by an active now section. Thankfully, you can hide either section and go …

Consumers eyeing the iPhone 7 may be able to preorder it starting Friday, September 9. No, Apple hasn’t announced anything. Rather, the purported preorder date was leaked in a tweet Wednesday night from generally reliable leaker Evan Blass, aka @evleaks. Blass’ tweet said simply: “Confirmed: Pre-orders start on the 9th. You can extrapolate the launch event date from there.” Blass …

Democrats lined up their heaviest hitters Wednesday as President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, VP candidate Tim Kaine and former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg took turns at the podium to support Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton and express disdain for Donald Trump, her Republican rival. If reaction on Twitter is any indication, they hit it out of the …

An online activist group is petitioning to keep Donald Trump out of security briefings after the Republican presidential candidate said he hopes Russian hackers get into rival candidate Hillary Clinton’s email. Credo Action is seeking 75,000 signatures urging national intelligence Director James Clapper to not allow Trump to be privy to classified information after Trump said Wednesday he wishes Russia …

An impressive Lego set inspired by five notable female NASA pioneers could become a reality if it gets enough votes on the Lego Ideas site. The deputy editor of MIT News, Maia Weinstock, submitted the proposed set to Lego Ideas. It needs 10,000 votes to be considered for production by the official Lego team. Currently, the project has just over …

Over the course of an hour or so, I’m likely to get dozens of notifications — several messages from different Slack groups, a few Hangouts messages, maybe some messages or notifications on Facebook, Twitter mentions, an SMS or two and some emails. That’s a lot to keep up with, and it forces you to constantly juggle several applications just to …

Sunshine is great, but let’s face it…summer can be the pits. And if you want to protect your pits from summer, a Japanese company has a quirky solution. The Thanko Electric Armpit Clip-on Cooler Fan is a 30-gram (1-ounce) clip-on fan that attaches itself to the front buttons or the short sleeve of a shirt, blowing cool air to the …