Using your phone to “scan” documents is nothing new. Using an Adobe app to snap, store and share those scans? That’s new. Adobe Scan (Android|iOS) is a free tool that turns your phone into a document scanner. With it, Adobe joins the likes of Office Lens and Scannable in providing a fast and easy way …

Crowdsourced delivery is so 2016. Walmart just created something called “associate delivery.” For the past few years, a slew of tech titans and startups have been developing crowdsourced shipping services, with Amazon, Uber, Postmates, Deliv and others paying regular folks to deliver packages or food to customers’ doors. Walmart may have one-upped them. The company on Thursday said that it …

In its annual “year in live events” reports, StubHub likes to offer fun bits of trivia gleaned from its troves of ticket-sales data. Who had the top-performing US tour last year? Adele, naturally. What about the highest-selling, single-day music event of 2016? That would be Springsteen on March 28 at MSG. Those are clever party tricks, but the world’s largest …

Skype is getting a makeover, though it’s hard to tell whether it’s cool or just trying to look cool. Starting Thursday, the 13-year-old video conferencing and chat software, which was bought by Microsoft six years ago, is getting a radically new look that ditches the bubbly buttons that were so in two decades ago. Instead, Skype now sports a user …

The sun’s going down on the last incredibly humid day of Computex 2017 in Taipei. As I’m preparing to fly home, back to Sydney in glorious winter, I’m thinking about the past week. The phenomenally slim laptops I saw, the visionary keynotes I listened to, the obscene gaming rigs that were tempting me to start my Season 5 placement matches …

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The market for iOS apps is growing, and so are the rewards. That’s the word from Apple, which said Thursday that since the Apple App Store launched in 2008, app developers have been paid more than $70 billion, or $20 billion more than the total Apple announced last year. Downloads from the App Store have also increased, growing 70 percent …

LG apparently can’t get enough of the LG G6, its first flagship phone for 2017.  Enlarge Image The LG G6 may be getting a revamp. James Martin/CNET The South Korean electronics giant plans to release two more variations by the end of the month, according to a Korean report by ETNews: the LG G6 Plus and LG G6 Pro. Despite …

Now playing: Watch this: Your bladder’s the limit with this virtual pet water… 0:53 If you’ve played endless negotiation games with your kids to try to get them to drink water, you could soon get a new weapon in your arsenal: the Gululu water bottle. The bottle has a built-in screen on the side that houses a little animated creature. …

If you’re a Chrome browser user, you’ll start seeing fewer ads in 2018 when Google starts blocking ads that are more aggressive about getting your attention. Google makes most of its money from online ads, but it and other publishers are threatened by the growing use of ad blockers that stop browsers from showing ads. Blockers can be installed in …