You can’t really call 2015 the year of online harassment because the problem goes back so much further. Just ask Anita Sarkeesian and Jaclyn Friedman, who have first-hand experience with how toxic the online world can be. The activists and authors each have had to cope with death threats for speaking up about how women …

The Beatles back catalogue will be available to stream online from midnight tonight, worldwide, and over a multitude of digital music services. Formed in Liverpool in 1960, The Beatles shaped the world of modern pop and rock music, and are estimated to be the best-selling band in the world, having shifted over 250 million records worldwide. The band’s catalogue of …

Ready for some fun? The Star Wars Crawl Creator, a Web app recently added to Starwars.com, lets you channel your inner Abrams (or Lucas, if you’re old-school) to create one of those iconic text blocks. By default, and by way of example, the Crawl Creator shows the introduction from “Episode IV: A New Hope.” When you’re ready to insert your …

Advancements in the technology your phone is made of have plateaued, on that we can all agree. But I’m still excited about where smartphones will stand in 2016. Yes, we’ll see more sensitive cameras and higher-resolution screens. There will be more interesting sensors that only some of us use, and biometric scanners everywhere and anywhere you can put one. All …

If you aren’t getting any bites on a dating site or are finding it to be slow going on a social network, perhaps your profile picture isn’t allowing you to stand out from the deafening online crowd. MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab built a Web app it calls LaMem, which is short for large-scale image memorability. LaMem uses …

Microsoft’s Cortana app for Android users has run into a stumbling block. The version for mobile devices running the Android operating system no longer allows people in the US to open the virtual assistant by uttering “Hey Cortana.” The tweak came in a Sunday update to the app. “We’ve received user feedback that the ‘Hey Cortana’ feature is conflicting with …

Facebook has more in common with McDonald’s than you might think. Both are at the top of their respective fields, so widely used and recognized that they’re the icons of the industries they dominate. It took the fast-food chain eight years to serve up a billion burgers; it took the social network eight years to sign up a billion people. …

This story is part of CES 2016. Our editors bring you complete CES 2016 coverage and scour the showroom floor for the hottest new tech gadgets around. LG’s 2016 Smart TVs will offer a host of new features courtesy of a software update. The South Korea-based electronics company announced on Monday that it will unveil its 2016 Smart TV lineup …

If you have a great set of headphones the little Chord Electronics Mojo digital converter/headphone amp is well worth considering. I wasn’t expecting Chord to radically shrink the size and price of their popular high-end Hugo (US $2,495, £1,400 in the UK and AU$2,495 in Australia) digital converter, but that’s exactly what the Mojo does. To put Mojo’s abilities in …

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For the past few years, a group of independent developers have put their apps on sale leading up to Christmas Day. For 2015 installment of App Santa, there’s 26 popular apps for iOS and OS X discounted up to 80 percent off the normal price. All participating apps should reflect the price change by 10 a.m. PT, 1 p.m. ET …

Now playing: Watch this: Every TV show and movie coming to and leaving Netflix… 1:38 A new year means changes at Netflix. Mark January 22 down in you calendar because “Sharknado 3” starts streaming on Netflix that day. The final season of “Parks and Recreation” joins the first six on Netflix starting on January 13. The bigger news might be …

Pebble’s Time line of smartwatches now has a capable personal assistant application, though it’s not the work of the company itself. The app, called Snowy, is a third-party application that was built to replicate Siri and Google Now’s functionality. Granted, it’s not going to be nearly as robust, it does have a healthy list of commands and features at launch. …

If you’re looking for a last-minute gift or just want to stock up on some movies before the winter break sets in, Google is discounting prices over at its Play app store. Though there are several items going on sale, the most notable ones include a three-month subscription to the company’s music streaming service, Google Play Music, for $1, £1 …

This story is part of CES 2016. Our editors bring you complete CES 2016 coverage and scour the showroom floor for the hottest new tech gadgets around. New computers are always a big category at CES — the world’s biggest consumer electronics trade show that takes place in Las Vegas the first week of January — and that topic has …