A set of tiny, pop-in earbuds that can play audio and magically tune out the rest of the world…or let other audio feeds in. That’s what Here One is promising. It’s a vision that combines the 2013 movie “Her” with next-level noise cancelling technology. I’ve tried a pair, briefly. And I’m still trying to figure …

Apple’s October 27 “hello again” event is just around the corner, and the leaks keep coming. We already anticipate Apple will unveil a new MacBook Pro during the San Francisco event, but details about a rumored OLED touch bar are emerging. The latest pieces of evidence are images obtained by MacRumors, which show a narrow strip above the keyboard. Rumored …

BlackBerry on Tuesday announced the DTEK60, a midrange Android phone with a focus on security. The phone is the company’s third device that runs Google‘s Android software, following the DTEK50 and last year’s BlackBerry Priv. It will also be the last “official” BlackBerry device. The company announced last month it will begin outsourcing design, production and distribution of products to …

Samsung is beefing up its Samsung Pay mobile-payments service with new features and the addition of three new markets. Beginning in November, Samsung Pay users in the US will have the option of choosing the electronics giant’s mobile wallet as the payment option while shopping in merchant apps, including those from Velocity, Raise, Fancy and Hello Vino, Samsung said on …

Social media is wringing its hands over another potential spying scandal hitting AT&T. This comes almost a decade after the carrier first faced lawsuits over a National Security Agency spy program — and amid a general atmosphere today of privacy worries that wasn’t helped by this month’s accusations that Yahoo had been spying on its users as well. Social Cues …

On the eve of its October 26 press event in New York, Microsoft appears to be readying a new messaging platform called Microsoft Teams. The service already has a log-in page for beta testers posted, as well as a splash page to launch the app. Reports of a Microsoft collaborative chat service first surfaced in September, when the site MSPowerUser …

Sprint took the long way to get there, but the US carrier now has recovered from years of decline, the company’s overlord said Tuesday. Sprint reported stronger financial results Tuesday, most notably the net addition of 347,000 new customers lured by network improvements and the promise of halved phone bills compared with AT&T and Verizon, the mobile goliaths. Sprint was …

Now playing: Watch this: Apple’s all about the MacBook on October 27 2:05 They’re back. Apple’s October 27 event in Cupertino promises a whole lot of Mac. Although Apple just had an iPhone 7 and Apple Watch event in September, this October follow-up should be all about the computer part of Apple’s hardware portfolio. Apple didn’t even have an October …

For whatever reason, you need a phone now and it’s got to be an iPhone. With four good ones to choose from, things can get complicated fast. You have the new models — the iPhone 7 and bigger iPhone 7 Plus (is the dual camera worth it?) — or you could save some bucks and buy last year’s 6S or …

How much does it cost to block a website like Kickass Torrents? According to Australia’s internet service providers, AU$50 per domain. That’s the price tag TPG has put on blocking individual domains that live in the darker corners of the internet, offering pirates access to torrents of recent movies and TV shows. TPG, Optus, Telstra and Foxtel (with its ISP …