DoorDash agreed on Tuesday to pay $2.5 million to settle a lawsuit alleging it misled customers about its tipping policy for drivers. The lawsuit was brought by the attorney general of Washington, DC, Karl Racine, in November 2019, who said DoorDash led customers to believe their tips were going to delivery workers when the company …

France plans to begin collecting its new digital tax from big tech companies in December, and the country’s Finance Ministry has sent out notices to the affected companies to tell them so, Reuters reported Wednesday. The 3% tax, applies to companies with annual revenue of more than 25 million euros ($28 million) in France and 750 million euros ($832 million) worldwide. …

In the movies, spies use GPS devices to track stuff around the globe. But you can’t use just any GPS device, because it needs to be able to transmit its location to a gadget you disguise discreetly as a brandy snifter. Or, if you’re not a Double-0 in the employ of MI-6, you can check using a mobile app. Spot …

Black Friday is just two days away — Nov. 27. However, Black Friday deals have been going on since mid-October, making the day itself less important this year. Actually, many stores won’t even be open on Thanksgiving night leading up to the big day. Instead, retailers such as Amazon, Best Buy, Home Depot, Target and Walmart have opted for early Black Friday deals, putting some of …

Available to buy now, Google’s Pixel 5 introduces many features that are new to the company’s phone brand, including 5G connectivity, an ultrawide-angle camera and a much larger, longer-lasting battery. The phone is currently on sale for $649, and it launched alongside the midtier Pixel 4A 5G, which costs $499 (£499, AU$799). Read more: Black Friday 2020 phone deals While the phone has …

Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo has predicted that the tech giant will release the next generation of MacBooks and Apple Watches in the second half of next year, 9to5Mac reported on Wednesday. The products will have a redesign, according to Kuo.  There’ll be two new versions of the Apple Watch next year, Kuo predicted, with “innovative health management functions and improved …

8.2 Samsung Galaxy Note 20 5G $966 at Amazon $950 at Best Buy Get Price Alerts $550 at Samsung You’re receiving price alerts for Samsung Galaxy Note 20 5G Like Brilliant screen Solid camera with 3x optical zoom Powerful, high-end performance features All-day battery life Don’t Like Lacks premium look and feel Plastic backing can feel sharp and poorly constructed …

The PlayStation 5 has been out of stock at most retailers since Sony launched its next-gen console earlier this month. But on Wednesday, the company promised that more inventory will be available before 2020 ends. We want to thank gamers everywhere for making the PS5 launch our biggest console launch ever. Demand for PS5 is unprecedented, so we wanted to …

Hoping for a $2.3 billion bump in the last quarter of 2020, IBM will cut 10,000 jobs in Europe before selling off most of its legacy IT services business in the region, Bloomberg reported Wednesday. UK and German jobs are expected to bear the brunt of the cuts in the division, which manages daily support functions for client data centers …

This story is part of Tech for a Better World, stories about the diverse teams creating products, apps and services to improve our lives and society. In the US, up to 40% of all food — much of it perfectly good — ends up in landfills, instead of on someone’s plate or in a compost bin. An app with nearly …

With Android apps available on Chromebooks, lightweight tablets with a detachable keyboard like Lenovo’s IdeaPad Duet Chromebook make more sense. Google has added to Chrome OS’s support for tablets, too, with new touch gestures and a tablet mode for the Chrome browser making this slim, small two-in-one feel like a hybrid of the desktop side of Chrome and tablet side of …

This story is part of Gift Guide, our year-round collection of the best gift ideas. While Black Friday used to mean “big sales the day after Thanksgiving,” nowadays, it’s come to mean “any good deal in November.” That rings true this year more than ever, with Black Friday sales already happening at Best Buy, Target and (of course) Amazon. Plus, Walmart’s big sale …

Happy Thanksgiving, fellow cheapskates! I’m off tomorrow, of course, but back here Friday wrangling up the last of the Black Friday deals — followed immediately by Cyber Monday deals. Until then, let me wish you and yours a safe, happy, healthy holiday. Before we dive in today, a few odds and ends: Last year’s fantastic Hulu deal returns tomorrow. If …

A prolonged outage of Amazon Web Services — a core component for a vast number of sites and apps — brought part of the internet to a halt Wednesday, as reported earlier by The Verge. The affected sites include not only major players on the web like Flickr, Adobe Spark and Roku, but at least three news outlets. The Tampa …

Taylor Swift on Tuesday revealed that a behind-the-scenes special exploring songs from her latest album, Folklore, is coming to Disney Plus on Wednesday. The streaming service described the film, entitled Folklore: The Long Pond Studio Sessions, as an “intimate concert” of the singer-songwriter’s record-breaking album.  The film-album-concert is now officially available on Disney Plus, as of 12:01 a.m. PT (3:01 a.m. …