Verizon has introduced new tools that make life easier for parents — even if their kids won’t be thrilled about it.  The nation’s largest wireless carrier on Thursday unveiled its Smart Family service, an enhanced version of its former parent monitoring program, FamilyBase.  Smart Family will let parents set boundaries like content filters and limit …

Sure, you can read about the habits of highly effective people. But why do that when you can listen to the music of highly influential people? Well, their music preferences, anyway. In conjunction with Time’s annual 100 Most Influential list, Spotify has released a new playlist collating 35 songs that people on the list said they found particularly inspiring. There’s …

I know I just posted a drone deal a few days ago, but hear me out. This is too good to pass up. Today only, and while supplies last, B&H Photo has the Propel Star Wars Quadcopters Fighting Kit for $99.99 shipped. That’s two drones, mind you. The last time I wrote about these, they were $75 apiece — and not long before …

Qualcomm just got through fending off a takeover, but it can’t seem to complete its own attempt at an acquisition.  The San Diego-based mobile chip giant has spent the past year and a half attempting to acquire Netherlands-based NXP Semiconductors, which makes chips for the automotive industry and digital networks. The deal is critical to Qualcomm effort to expand beyond …

Samsung’s Galaxy S9 and S9 Plus have come to fight for Apple’s phone crown with new features and supercharged cameras. But the iPhone X won’t go down easily, and deciding between the newest Galaxy and iPhone may prove tougher than ever. Now that we’ve reviewed both phones, we can help break down how each performs to help you decide which …

Apple is looking to an iPhone-chomping robot to help save the planet.  On Thursday, the consumer electronics maker introduced Daisy — a new robot in Apple’s Austin, Texas, factory that disassembles old iPhones to make it easier to reuse and recycle their parts. It replaces the previous robot, Liam, and uses some of the older machine’s components.  Daisy’s unveiling is …

AT&T is getting more than 100 cities ready for 5G. Just don’t be misled by how it’s doing it.  The Dallas telecommunications giant said on Thursday that it’s rolling out its “5G Evolution” technology to parts of 117 markets, bringing its total to 141. New cities include larger cities like Miami and Dallas and smaller cities like Reno, Nevada, and …

It’s that time of year again, when Motorola unleashes a deluge of budget phones and we have the fun task of untangling them all. But untangle them we will, because Moto makes really, really good value phones. So, you’ve got the Moto G6, Moto G6 Plus, Moto G6 Play in one group and the Moto E5 Plus, Moto E5 Play and Moto …

Google is putting its Allo messaging app on the backburner as it concentrates on an Android alternative to Apple’s iMessage. The tech giant said in a blog post Thursday it’ll “pause investment” in development of Allo, confirming a report in The Verge. The move was made to focus resources on Rich Communications Services, or RCS, a standard known as Chat that …

Oculus, the virtual reality unit of Facebook, is getting its ducks in a row for the upcoming European Union privacy rules.  The VR unit on Thursday introduced a new “My Privacy Center” with tools to view your information and the data you’ve shared with Oculus. It will launch on May 20. It’s also updating its terms of service and privacy …