It could’ve been much worse. Enlarge Image Iowa football player Faith Ekakitie, left, was playing Pokemon Go in a park when he was searched at gunpoint by police looking for a bank robber. Matthew Holst, Getty Images A US college football player wrote in a poignant post on Facebook that he feared for his life …

While you’re out trying to catch them all, Pokemon Go is breaking records left and right. The instantly popular app now has been downloaded 75 million times, according to Sensor Tower, a mobile app analytics group. That’s on top of some already impressive numbers. Pokemon Go hit its first 50 million in just 19 days, far surpassing the pace of …

How do you follow up to making a $4.8 billion purchase of an internet pioneer? If you’re Verizon, you get right back to business and release your second-quarter results. The New York telecommunications giant is fresh off its Monday announcement that it plans to acquire Yahoo’s core internet business. The deal is part of Verizon’s broader strategy to transform itself …

The political spotlight shifts to Philadelphia this week for the 2016 Democratic National Convention. Sen. Bernie Sanders and first lady Michelle Obama gave rousing speeches on the first night of the DNC, which is being held at the Wells Fargo Center, and threw their support behind presumptive nominee Hillary Clinton. The convention is sure to deliver more political pageantry with …

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BlackBerry is back with another phone. But does anyone care? The struggling phone maker on Tuesday unveiled the BlackBerry DTEK 50, its second phone powered by Google’s Android mobile software. Unlike the company’s first Android phone, the Priv, the DTEK 50 does away with BlackBerry’s signature physical keyboard and opts for a full screen. It will sell for $299. BlackBerry …

Refresh, reinstall and cry because the fun of picking between photo filters Lo-Fi and Valencia was at a standstill. That’s a pretty apt description of what some Instagram users experienced Monday. The popular photo-sharing app crashed on Monday night and a handful of users could not even find it in an app store, International Business Times reported. Instagram sent out …

If you’re old enough to remember Bill Clinton campaigning for president by playing his saxophone on a late-night talk show, you know what a crowd-pleaser he can be. And if you’re not old enough but you watched his speech tonight at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, you may well know it too. Of course, you need not have watched …

A new utility from Google could save your life. The company on Monday announced that emergency services will be given your precise location if you call them with an Android smartphone. Product manager Akshay Kannan in a blog post pointed out that 70 percent of emergency calls come from mobile phones, and that “accurate emergency location can be the difference …

If you like solid-state drives that use 3D vertical NAND flash memory, like the Samsung SSD 850 Evo or the Crucial MX300, here’s some good news: there will soon be more of them. Western Digital today announced that it, in collaboration with Toshiba, has successfully developed next-gen 3D NAND, called BiCS3, which stacks memory cells vertically in 64 layers (compared …

Venmo wants to make buying takeout with your friends as easy as possible. The PayPal-owned company on Tuesday said it will release a feature that enables users to make purchases and split the bill at participating stores’ apps, expanding on its digital payment platform. Venmo launched a beta version for a handful of users in early 2016. Starting Wednesday, everyone …

Back in the days of shrinkwrapped software, Microsoft would roll out giant new upgrades of its Office suite every few years, brimming with a laundry list of new (but not always improved) features. But now that we’re in the era of cloud-based Office 365 — productivity software as a service — the updates are more frequent and more subtle. To …

Ever wanted to be a drug kingpin? Well, now you can try out the lifestyle without a stint in jail. Narcos: Cartel Wars is a mobile game based on the hit Netflix series “Narcos” that lets you step into role of cartel kingpin. The game was made by Gaumont Television, which produces “Narcos,” and FTX Games, reported Variety, and will …

If you’ve ever had the yen to display the photos in your Adobe Lightroom mobile catalogs on your TV — and that’s a pretty specific yen — there’s now an Apple TV app for that. It allows you to navigate your collections, see individual photos and slideshows, and zoom in on photos. In addition to the synced photos, it will …

After more than two years, it looks like the WWE may have finally given up on the Roman Reigns experiment. What’s the Roman Reigns experiment, you ask? It’s WWE CEO and Chairman Vince McMahon’s plan to make Reigns the next big thing. If it worked, he’d be as well known as the likes of “Stone Cold” Steve Austin, John Cena …