There’s more information on our phones than in our homes, Apple CEO Tim Cook said, and we may need government regulations to protect our privacy. Cook, long a vocal proponent of user privacy, noted that our phones know about our relationships, what we look at online and what photos we take. All of that could …

Facebook wants to bring you even more video.  The social media giant on Tuesday rolled out Premieres globally and expanded its interactive video polls and Top Fans features. Facebook interactive video polls will be available for most videos soon.  Facebook Facebook started testing Premieres earlier this year. The feature lets you post prerecorded video clips — such as movie trailers or …

Reddit just reached a milestone in video views. In August last year, the popular online message-board site started hosting videos, rather than relying on third-party hosting platforms. It now has over 1 billion native video views every month, it said in a blog post Tuesday. Reddit is now serving 400,000 hours of natively hosted video every day, and nearly 70 …

With the US midterm elections just over a month away, Twitter’s cracking down on fake accounts. “We now may remove fake accounts engaged in a variety of emergent, malicious behaviors,” the company said in a blog post on its elections integrity work. It’s expanded its rules for identifying fake accounts, looking for stock or stolen avatar photos, stolen or copied …

No sooner did the calendar turn to October than Microsoft began rolling out Windows 10 October 2018 Update (version 1803) to users. The update will introduce a number of new features, including SwiftKey keyboard for touchscreen PCs, a better screenshot tool, the Your Phone app for iPhone ($899 at Amazon)– and Android device-wielding PC users and a less annoying approach to …

Amazon on Tuesday said it will raise its minimum wage to $15 an hour in the US, a response to mounting pressure over its wages and its treatment of warehouse workers. “We listened to our critics, thought hard about what we wanted to do, and decided we want to lead,” Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos said in a statement. …

Students now will be able to get into their dorms and pay for meals in the university cafeteria using just their iPhones or Apple Watches. Starting Tuesday, students from three US universities will be able to add their student IDs to the Apple Wallet on their devices. That lets them use their phones and watches to pay for items or …

Microsoft has completely updated its line of Surface PCs — and launched its first high-end noise-cancelling headphones, too. The company unveiled a new Surface Pro 6 tablet, Surface Laptop 2 and Surface Studio 2 all-in-one desktop PC at a media event in New York, and surprised with its entry into the world of high-end headphones with the Surface Headphones. It also unveiled a …

It turns out watching Netflix all day is making a dent in our collective internet usage. A report by Sandvine, posted late September, has found that 15 percent of all internet bandwidth worldwide is consumed by people watching Netflix. According to Sandvine, that makes Netflix the No. 1 downstream application worldwide. The full report from Sandvine arrived on Oct. 2 …

Apple may have discontinued the iPhone SE, but you can still find the beloved-by-many model out in the wild. In fact, head to your local Walmart for one of the better deals to date. For a limited time, and while supplies last, Walmart has the iPhone SE (32GB) with one month of Family Mobile service for $139 shipped. Opt for …