A new app by CEO and engineer Tracy Chou designed to prevent online abuse and harassment is now taking beta testers. Block Party lets you choose who you want to hear from and includes a feature that filters out anyone who’s likely to send you unwanted content on Twitter. Chou shared the update Tuesday on …

Last year Huawei had the unpleasant experience of launching a flagship phone, the Mate 30 Pro, with no support from Google’s Mobile Services. It ran Android, which is open source. But no Google apps worked, nor did apps like Uber, which rely on Google apps (Maps, in Uber’s case). Instead of the Google Play Store, Huawei offered its own AppGallery. …

This story is part of Elections 2020, CNET’s coverage of the voting in November and its aftermath. Results from Monday’s Iowa caucus were delayed for days because of problems with a smartphone app used to tabulate and report results, causing chaos and frustration among campaigns and voters. A reported coding issue caused the app to only report out partial data, Iowa Democratic Chairman Troy Price said …

The last quarter of 2019 was turbulent for Uber, as it faced serious disruptions in its business from California to London to India. After bottoming out with its lowest-ever recorded share price in late November, however, the situation started to turn around for the ride-hailing company. Uber’s share price began to slowly and steadily rise, even as Travis Kalanick, its …

The number of people using ad-blocking technology on mobile browsers has surged to 527 million, an increase of 64% over the last three years, according to a report published Thursday. Combined with ad blocking on personal computers, that means a total of 763 million devices were running ad blockers in the fourth quarter of 2019, the report said. That means …

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When it launched Face ID in September 2017, Apple turned your close-up into the key that unlocks your iPhone. Since then, Apple has continued to expand the number and type of devices with Face ID, including the iPhone models of the last two years and the current-generation iPad Pro. By transitioning to Face ID, Apple killed off its home button and …

When I held the new Motorola Razr foldable phone in my hand, all I wanted to do was open and close it a thousand times. Not because I wanted to test the screen or durability (like we did with the Galaxy Fold and will do again with the Razr on Thursday), but because that’s what I did all the time when …

AT&T’s 5G rollout continues with a slate of new cities. The company said that as of this week its low-band spectrum will be reaching: Bakersfield, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, Oxnard and Modesto, California; Liberty, Georgia; Wichita, Kansas; Boston and New Bedford, Massachusetts; Frederick and St. Louis, Missouri; Atlantic City, New Jersey; and Dayton, Ohio. These 13 new locations put …

You store a ton of personal information in your Google account — bank account balances, email addresses and phone numbers, pictures of your face, your friends’ faces, your family. If you want to protect that sensitive data with the highest level of security you can get, consider the Google Advanced Protection Program. Google’s program makes it nearly impossible for anyone …