Now playing: Watch this: I quit World of Warcraft in 2010. Here’s why I came back 3:35 After playing World of Warcraft (WoW) for six straight years since its launch, I quit the game in 2010. Blizzard’s massively multiplayer, orcs versus humans (versus many others) online fantasy game had monopolized my leisure time for more …

The SMS text-messaging experience hasn’t changed much in more than 20 years. But that will change for Sprint subscribers on Android devices starting today thanks to a new update to Google‘s Messenger app. Google said in a blog Friday that Sprint will be the first carrier to use its RCS-enabled Messenger app to update its text messaging service on Android …

Those MacBook Pro dongles are now a lot cheaper. Apple on Friday cut the pricing for connectors for its MacBook Pro. The offer will run through the end of the year. Apple also lowered the price of the new LG displays announced last week by 25 percent. The LG UltraFine 5K display, will cost $974 when it becomes available in …

Now playing: Watch this: How to use the Hype app and win all the sparkles 2:19 The creators of Vine have a new gift for the Internet — and it’s called Hype. Hype is a live-streaming video app on iOS with wide-ranging creative freedom. Every broadcaster can layer a live video with multimedia, including photos, videos, animated GIFs, music, text …

Melania Trump says social media has gotten “too mean and too tough” and that if her husband is elected president next week, she’ll work to improve online civility. The wife of Republican nominee Donald Trump discussed cyberbullying during a solo speech Thursday in suburban Philadelphia. “It is never OK when a 12-year-old girl or boy is mocked, bullied or attacked. …

If you were alive in the 1960s or ’70s, you tuned in to “Uncle Walter” on your TV for the most important news of the day. Known as “the most trusted man in America,” Walter Cronkite was a legendary broadcast journalist many turned to for decades to get the latest news on World War II, Watergate and the Vietnam War, …

If you have an idea for a Moto Mod, now’s your chance. Motorola is partnering with crowd-funding platform Indiegogo for a Moto Mods Developer contest, Motorola said in a blog post Thursday. For the unfamiliar, Moto Mods are accessories that attach to Moto Z phones. So far, Moto Mods let users turn their phones into movie projectors, speakers, cameras or …

This year’s World Series proved to be a grand slam on Twitter. The social network said Thursday more than 18 million tweets were sent about the World Series between the Chicago Cubs and the Cleveland Indians, including 10.5 million tweets during the nail-biting, heart-pounding Game 7 alone, both records for Twitter. Also, Facebook said some 33 million people were talking …

Wouldn’t it be nice? Send off a text message with a whoosh, and, presto, you’ve finished voting in the US national election. But here’s some important information: You can’t vote for Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton — or for anyone, for that matter — by text message. Electronic voting in the US is very limited, doesn’t involve text messages, and …

Sprint is bringing on a new DJ. The nation’s fourth-largest wireless carrier is adding Napster, formerly Rhapsody, as a music-streaming partner. The move follows Sprint’s partnership with rival service Spotify in April 2014. It doesn’t offer Sprint customers a special deal or preload Napster’s app on their phones, but it combines billing onto the phone owner’s mobile plan. The alliance …