When you use Yelp for restaurant recommendations or TripAdvisor for places to see, you’re often putting the fate of your travel or dining experience in the hands of a stranger. Likewise is a new app that gathers recommendations from people you know or trust. And these recommendations aren’t limited to one thing. They can be …

When Jigsaw tested this privacy app with a few dozen political activists in Venezuela, the company wanted to keep the trial small. Within weeks, thousands of people around the world were using Intra, a security app used to stop government regimes from censoring the internet and manipulating traffic. On Wednesday, Jigsaw, a tech incubator owned by Google’s parent company, Alphabet, …

Don’t worry: The government didn’t just spam you. On Wednesday, the Integrated Public Alert and Warning System sent a test message to everyone using a cellphone in the US that runs on a network operated by a carrier participating in the Wireless Emergency Alert system. You’d know you got the message if the header read “Presidential Alert.” The content of the …

Google Assistant is opening itself up to new forms of communication. Starting today, when you pull up Google Assistant on your phone, you’ll see extra visuals and new ways of interacting by touch. Google is announcing the changes via a blog post Wednesday as the company prepares for its Made by Google event on Oct. 9. Rolled out initially as …

With the upgrade to the Tile Mate and Tile Pro, the company is addressing a big complaint about its older smart trackers. Tile has improved its smart tracking tags by making the batteries replaceable, increasing the Bluetooth range, bumping up the volume and adding a new Tile Premium subscription that provides extra services. Earlier versions of the trackers didn’t have replaceable …

The broadband industry’s four main lobbying groups are joining forces to stop California’s state net neutrality law from taking effect. On Wednesday, mobile-industry lobbyist the CTIA; USTelecom, which lobbies for the telecommunications industry; and the two lobbying organizations for the cable industry, NCTA and the American Cable Association, jointly filed a lawsuit in federal court against the state of California …

In case you had your cellphone turned off or you spend the day in airplane mode, the first “Presidential Alert” text went out at 11:18 a.m. PT/2:18 p.m. ET Wednesday.  To be clear, the text is solely a test of the ability for President Trump’s administration to send a text message to as many Americans as possible. It’s not indicative …

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