Nothing is more frustrating than opening the YouTube home page and seeing recommended videos about knitting when you’d rather see cute puppies running around. You’ve never looked up anything about knitting, so why does YouTube think you like it? Fortunately, YouTube has come up with a solution by giving you more control over your home page …

Twitter suffered a complete outage for approximately an hour Thursday afternoon. The social media platform is now up but isn’t entirely functional for everyone. Earlier, Twitter users trying to log on to the social network saw a message saying “Something is technically wrong.” The company confirmed the service was down and found the culprit to be “an internal configuration change,” according …

The Federal Communications Commission is hosting a Robocall Summit all day Thursday to detail the progress major phone companies have made in implementing technology and policies to stop incessant robocalls.  The nation’s four major wireless carriers will be there, along with industry experts. The people at the workshop all have a hand in developing the technology standard for SHAKEN/STIR, a protocol …

Browser startup Brave now can show its privacy-first ads on Android, not just personal computers. The company’s browser blocks websites’ ads and trackers by default, but if you opt in to see Brave-supplied ads instead, you’ll get 70 percent of the resulting revenue. With most of Brave’s users on smartphones, the Android move is a significant expansion of Brave’s advertising …

US companies will be able to sell equipment to Huawei, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross confirmed Tuesday, but only after they get licenses and when there’s no threat to national security. The declaration by Ross followed President Donald Trump’s promise last month to ease restrictions on the embattled Chinese telecom as he tried to revive trade talks. “Huawei itself remains on …

Apple changed phone design with the iPhone X in 2017, introducing the world to the notched displays. In 2020, the company may give the notch a redesign so it takes up a little less space.  Apple is reportedly trying to cut down the size of its 2020 iPhone’s TrueDepth notch by using a smaller camera, TF Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo told …

It’s one thing for wireless carriers like Verizon and Sprint to show off 5G speeds in this or that city. It’s another to test the same phone on two different networks in the same town for a taste of how 5G competition is heating up. That’s exactly what I did today in Chicago — testing peak and real-world 5G speeds …

Apple on Thursday released its ECG app for the Apple Watch Series 4 via a software update. The ECG app uses the watch’s digital crown and sensors along the bottom of the watch to monitor the electrical patterns of your heartbeat and analyzes it for potential issues. That’s a rather simplified breakdown of the new app — if you want a …

Indie game developers, from small groups to one-person shops, often need to pull in outside help on projects. For years, many of them have found freelancers via Fiverr, the online freelance services marketplace. Now the company is recognizing that by launching a game-specific storefront, putting skills such as game programming, storyboarding, character design, audio production and game marketing under one …

Worldwide shipments of PCs grew 1.5% in the second quarter of 2019 after two quarters of decline, according to a preliminary Thursday report from Gartner. Sixty-three million units shipped in Q2 2019, compared with 62 million units the same time last year, the report says. That growth was “driven by demand from the Windows 10 refresh in the business market” …