It’s hard to care about Google I/O when you own an iPhone. But it turns out that more than one new product announced at the conference supports iOS. A handful of Google’s new apps and products will work with your iPhone when they come out later this year. Here’s the rundown of what new Google …

Kanye West has gone on another epic rant. But not on social media; this time the hip-hop star waxed poetic on Ellen DeGeneres’ talk show. During an eight-minute-long interview that aired Thursday, West kept it 100, talking about his occasional bizarre antics, including asking Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg for $1 billion on Twitter in February after saying he was $53 …

Nearly half of all worldwide TV shipments in the fourth quarter of 2015 were smart TVs, according to analysis by research firm IHS. Web-connected smart TVs that give you direct access to streaming services such as Netflix and other features made up 48.5 percent of all TV shipments during the period. In total, 34.2 million smart TV were shipped in …

I’ve done plenty of weird things for my cats. I build elaborate structures out of cardboard boxes on the living room floor. I let them sit on all the pieces in the jigsaw puzzle box and just work around them. But my cat-indulgence resolve is now being tested by a new, not-yet-released product called the Licki Brush. Just hearing the …

Now playing: Watch this: Watch Google transform a humble Chromebook into an Android… 1:26 Google’s Chromebooks just got a lot more useful. The Google laptops are known for affordable prices (a Chromebook can be had for $169) but also a limited selection of apps, thanks to their inability to run Windows or Mac OS programs. But starting in June, Chromebooks …

May 20 is National Streaming Day, which celebrates Roku shipping its first media-streaming box in 2008. Roku and boxes like it have certainly changed our TV viewing habits, but maybe not so much for the better. In celebration of the day, the company is offering some free service deals, but it also put together a survey to uncover some of …

Are you a Vodafone customer using an Android phone? If so, you can now buy apps from the Google Play Store by charging them directly to your Vodafone account, rather than having to register your credit card with Google. To celebrate, Vodafone is also offering a 90 percent discount on a selection of popular apps and games, including Monument Valley …

eBay is imagining a future where we shop in VR, and it wants you to put on your “shoptacles” and start buying. The granddaddy of e-commerce is jumping on the virtual reality bandwagon with the launch of what it claims is the “world’s first” VR shopping app. eBay has partnered with Australian department store Myer for the launch, offering 12,500 …

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Please tell me it’s called Milk TV. Joining Dish’s Sling TV, Sony’s PlayStation Vue and whatever Apple might be working on, Samsung is in talks with entertainment companies to develop its own Internet-based TV service, Bloomberg reported on Thursday. The project is still in its early stages, “people familiar with the matter” told Bloomberg, with the electronics giant discussing pricing …

If you’re the kind of person who pays attention to devices in movies, you might have noticed that the phones and tablets in Marvel’s “Captain America: Civil War” all belonged to a brand called Vivo. Vivo is not some fictitious brand created by the Marvel writers. It’s actually some canny product placement by a Chinese smartphone maker that has been …

So you’re a “Game of Thrones” fan, and you know this guy David Benioff is one of the executive producers, and someone mentioned he wrote this great novel, “City of Thieves,” which sounds like your cup of World War II-era adventure tea. But, dang it, the Kindle edition costs $11.99, and you used up your spare cash subscribing to HBO …

Apple this week took the wraps off its newest store in San Francisco, or, to be more precise, slid open its huge glass doors. Two sides of the building feature massive sliding glass doors, with those in the front reaching 42 feet high and opening a space 40 feet wide. They make visitors feel like they’re out in San Francisco’s …

Addicted to Facebook quizzes? There’s an app for that. In fact, there are several apps that can help you create quizzes on Facebook. Quizzes for Facebook is one of the better apps for building quizzes because it’s simple and doesn’t post unwanted updates to your feed. To get started, go to the Quizzes for Facebook app and click Get Started. …

Google wants to go beyond being a search bar, instead providing its know-how anywhere people may want. To that end, the company’s annual I/O conference focused heavily on Google assistant, a digital butler that can fetch all kinds of information for users and help them complete tasks. The platform will first live in the new Google Home smart speaker and …