Plenty of executives will line up to talk about the new phones, drones and VR gear introduced at this week’s Mobile World Congress trade show in Barcelona. But when it comes to the biggest story in tech, no one wants to go there. In California, Apple is battling a February 16 federal court order to …

Our kick-ass team in Barcelona survived another year at Mobile World Congress, and we have the lowdown on all the new tech you might’ve missed out on during the week. Samsung’s new phones give the people what they want The new Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge feature expandable storage and a water-resistant casing. I’d like to see an iPhone do …

Netflix could have released two complete trailers for the anticipated next season of its action-filled superhero drama “Daredevil,” but instead it went with a cliffhanger approach. The first trailer focused on vengeful, kill-em-all guest star Punisher, but ended with the enigmatic Elektra appearing at Matt Murdock/Daredevil’s place. The second part of the trailer dropped Thursday and picks up with more …

The US government’s landmark Net neutrality rules are about to mark their one-year anniversary. You’d think proponents of a free and open Internet would mark the occasion with a victory lap. Emotions have run high over Net neutrality. Here, protesters gathered in California in 2014, near where President Barack Obama was hosting a fundraiser. Steve Rhodes/Demotix/Corbis It’s not that simple. …

Facebook has finally acknowledged that you can do more than just “like” a post on the social network. The company added additional reactions on Wednesday that enable users to express emotions such as love, laughter, surprise, sadness and anger. But did Facebook add enough emojis to cover the gamut of human reaction? According to Matthew Inman, the comic who goes …

For years we’ve been telling people to skip the built-in smart TV apps on their TVs and use an external device like a Roku or Google’s $35 Chromecast. Now Vizio is internalizing our advice. According to a report in Variety, the TV maker is removing the built-in smart TV apps from some of its 2016 TVs and replacing it with …

While “Star Wars: Episode VIII” won’t open in theaters until December 15, 2017, we’re already getting a few clues from the movie’s director and actors on social media. We already know that filming has begun on the new Star Wars movie after Director Rian Johnson shared a brief new scene featuring Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill) and Rey (Daisy Ridley). “Star …

How do you solve a problem like connecting the 1.7 billion people to the Internet who live outside of the range of mobile broadband? If you’re Facebook, the answer is drones. Also, lasers. Facebook’s drone project, named Aquila, is one of several initiatives the company is testing as part of the Internet.org coalition to try to improve global Internet access. …

Walking into a store and demanding cash from the register usually ends badly for all concerned — but an app called Spare replaces a stocking mask and a sawn-off when you want to withdraw cash straight from the till of any shop. Phones are increasingly muscling in on the stuff you’d previously need your wallet for. Mobile-payment services like Apple …

We’ve hauled our gear around endless meetings, we’ve drunk all the coffee we can find and we’ve found a collection of disgusting purple couches. It’s all kicking off at this year’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. MWC is the world’s largest mobile-focused trade show, where the biggest beasts in the industry are showing off their latest and greatest products, like …

Apple has long provided a means to print webpages or documents from an iOS device to an AirPrint-equipped printer. However, the ability to save an item as a PDF isn’t as straightforward. Third-party apps have typically provided the ability to turn a document into a PDF, and now it turns out, Apple is providing a native solution to quickly and …

San Francisco has joined a half-dozen other cities in queue for Google’s high-speed fiber Internet service. Google will bring the service to some apartments, condos and affordable housing properties in San Francisco, the search giant said in a blog post Wednesday. But the rollout comes with a catch. Instead of laying down the necessary fiber from scratch, which is a …

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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has ordered employees to stop crossing out the phrase “Black Lives Matter” on the walls at its Menlo Park, California, headquarters. In an internal post to employees this week, Zuckerberg said there have been several instances of the phrase being crossed out and replaced with “all lives matter” on the company’s chalkboard and white-board walls, which …

Hot news for you storage fans: SanDisk has whipped the covers off its latest USB Type-C flash drive here in Barcelona at Mobile World Congress. Available in four size configurations, the drive can transfer files for USB Type-C enabled devices, such as the recently announced LG G5 smartphone and the Huawei MateBook Windows 10 tablet. More efficient and faster than …