Now playing: Watch this: Use Gboard for iPhone to search while you text 1:29 Google has released a keyboard for iOS users that does more than simply offer a way to enter text. Naturally, search is built in, as are a few other options you won’t find in Apple’s stock keyboard. After a some time …

YouTube is souping up its mobile app with a new feature — an instant messaging service that lets you share and chat about your new favourite cat video without having to leave the app. The existing share option on a video will allow you to share the video directly to a contact, Wired reports. You’ll then be able to see …

Cellular service provider Verizon said Thursday it will add bigger data buckets to its prepaid plans. Specifically the carrier has upped its $60 monthly subscription for smartphones to include 6GB through Autopay. Consider those additional gigabytes of data an incentive for prepaid customers to turn on automatic payments. If you choose not to use automatic payments, then you’ll have a …

Authorities in France have opened an investigation after a woman allegedly broadcast her death on Periscope, the Twitter-owned live-streaming app. The woman died Tuesday after intentionally falling under a train in Evry, about 25 miles from Paris. She reportedly was using the app at the time of her death. Periscope is primarily used for streaming and watching live broadcasts, but …

The Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro could look like the movie “Contagion.” In the 2011 film, an American gets sick in Hong Kong and brings the illness back to the US, causing an epidemic. Now a report in the Harvard Public Review argues that the half million visitors who will descend on the Brazilian city could spur a similar …

Your desire to shed a few pounds has helped fuel a doubling in ownership of wearable devices in the past two years, according to report released Thursday. Since 2014, the adoption rate for wearable devices has grown from 21 percent to 49 percent, according to a survey released Thursday by business services firm PricewaterhouseCoopers. Of the survey’s 1,000 respondents who …

UK telephone and broadband provider TalkTalk has seen its profits drop to £14 million, from £32 million the previous year, following a high profile attack last October, which cost the company £35 million. “We have significantly increased our spending on security. We take this extremely seriously,” TalkTalk CEO Dido Harding explained to the BBC. About 157,000 of TalkTalk’s 4 million …

Your stuff is perfectly decent, so you don’t want to throw it away and you do want to make a little extra cash. The only option is having a yard sale, right? Hold up! Before you go to the trouble of making signs, setting up tables, and making change, try selling your electronics, furniture and knickknacks online. Here are a …

Facebook wants to set the record straight on its editorial policies so the topic will stop trending on the social network. The Menlo Park, California, company on Thursday made public its most current Trending Topics guidelines, part of an effort to combat reports that it’s politically biased. A 28-page internal document offered a glimpse at how Facebook chooses material that …

Turns out Facebook’s trending topics have involved human influence, not just machines. Documents leaked to The Guardian show that the social-media giant employed a small editorial team, in addition to algorithms, to decide what news should appear in its box of trending topics. The box sits at the top right of Facebook’s desktop page and is one of the most …

Innoants, a startup based Toronto, Canada, has an Indiegogo campaign up for a forthcoming product that should interest a lot of people: the Air Case, which doubles the battery life of your iPhone 6/6S or 6/6S Plus and is billed as the world’s thinnest iPhone case. At $39, it’s also affordable — at least if you get it at its …

IFTTT, the online connection service, now works with hundreds of different services and devices, connecting them to break the language barrier and help them work together. While both major mobile platforms — Android and iOS — have their own collection of dedicated channels, you can go a bit further and accomplish a little more with IFTTT on Android. Here are …

The next generation of broadcast TV is coming, whether you’re ready or not. Actually, no one’s ready, and that’s sort of the point. ATSC, or Advanced Television Systems Committee, is the group that decides what over-the-air (and more) TV signals look like. Last year about 76 percent of US households subscribed to cable, satellite or fiber for TV, while 21 …

Android’s share of the smartphone market has surged throughout the US, Europe and China. Google’s mobile OS saw its smartphone market share rise in the first quarter in virtually all of the regions tracked by Kantar Worldpanel ComTech, the research firm said Wednesday. In the US, Android’s smartphone share grew by 7.3 percentage points year over year to 65.5 percent. …

Microsoft is dumping a touchy Windows 10 option that lets you share your Wi-Fi passwords with contacts. The option is part of a feature called Wi-Fi Sense, aimed at making it easy to share your Wi-Fi network with family, friends, visitors and other people within range. The goal was to eliminate the hassle of manually doling out your Wi-Fi password …