One word could have made all the difference. “Air,” instead of “Pro.” If Apple had introduced a new MacBook Air last week, the company wouldn’t be facing down a mob of angry creative professionals. It might not have Apple software developers questioning whether the company has lost its way. Because the new MacBook Pro basically …

My mouth began watering even before I put on the VR headset. In the middle of the work day, Hormel’s Black Label Bacon virtual-reality experience was the closest thing I was going to get to the real thing. Available today, a trip to BlackLabelBacon.com will put you smack in the middle of four different bacon-centric VR worlds: Salty Sea, The …

Halloween is creeping, oozing and slithering all over social media. Even the 2016 presidential election is taking a backseat to the holiday, despite the October Surprise that’s haunting Hillary Clinton’s campaign. Social Cues is your go-to guide on what’s trending across Facebook and Twitter each morning. Here’s what people on social media are talking about this Monday morning: Happy Halloween: …

Facebook has a great costume idea for Halloween, as it makes moves to catch up with ephemeral messaging app Snapchat. In 2013, the social media giant failed to buy Snapchat for $3 billion. On Monday, a report said the company earlier this year tried to buy Snow, a similar social network in Asia, but couldn’t manage to snatch it up …

Pass on the cavities and indulge in the sweet sound of the Leme Bluetooth Headphones! We wanted to do a little something special for our readers this Halloween week by giving away these colorful headphones to seven lucky winners. The Leme Bluetooth headphones have an on-ear design, they are lightweight and come in red, black or white. So what do …

It probably seems as though a bunch of your friends on Facebook suddenly picked up and headed out to North Dakota on Monday to join the protest against the controversial Dakota Access Pipeline. Thousands of Facebook users appeared to have checked in at the Standing Rock Indian Reservation in Cannon Ball, N.D. But it’s unlikely many were actually near the …

Remember when Facebook tried and failed to buy Snapchat? Well it seems the company has not given up its pursuit of similar messaging tech. The social network made an unsuccessful bid this summer to acquire Snow, a Snapchat-esque app owned by South Korea-based Naver, TechCrunch reported Monday. The bid was rebuffed in spite of a phone call directly from Facebook …

“We are the company that stands for the builders, the makers, the creators.” Sounds like a thing Apple might say, no? But those are the words of Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella — the guy who just ate Apple’s lunch. I’m not saying the new Microsoft Surface Studio and Surface Book will be incredibly popular computers. While the pen-equipped transforming computers …

Last night, pro wrestling history was made. For the first time, two women, Sasha Banks and Charlotte, main evented a WWE pay-per-view. “So what?” the non-wrestling fans among us may be thinking. If everything is predetermined, why does it matter that women were the main event? The headlining match in a pay-per-view (PPV) is the one the WWE thinks will …

The demand for tablets is still taking a tumble. Despite accounting for nearly a quarter of the market with the iPad, Apple saw a decline of more than 6 percent in tablet shipments during the third quarter, research firm IDC said Monday. The tech giant shipped 9.3 million tablets compared to 9.9 million, a year ago. Rival Samsung also saw …