A prominent part of modern social life is the Facebook Event. It’s the concert, fundraiser, book reading, gala or pub crawl you say you’re going to attend, but probably won’t. Now Facebook wants to make it easier for you to RSVP to stuff, and also find more stuff to RSVP to. On Friday the company …

Google will put photo-sharing site Panoramio out of its misery in a month, a decision that triggered fresh anguish and anger among people who have stuck with it through thick and thin. This week, Panoramio fans saw the words “Panoramio is closing,” with a November 4 deadline. As word spread from a post by a Panoramio forum moderator, outrage and …

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Nexedi, a French open-source software developer, is not happy that Apple won’t let rival browsing engines onto the iPhone. So unhappy, in fact, it’s taking the tech giant to court. “We hope (the suit) will help Apple to sooner support the latest Web and HTML5 standards on its iOS platform — the operating system used by all iPhones,” the company …

MacOS Sierra introduced two iCloud Drive features that are certainly convenient but are also certain to put you over the free 5GB iCloud storage limit. MacOS Sierra’s ability to sync your Desktop and Document folders to iCloud Drive and to optimize your Mac’s storage to free up some space will likely exceed 5GB sooner rather than later. An upgrade to …

Why should the Doctor have all the fun fighting alien monsters? In the new “Doctor Who” spinoff series “Class,” there’s no Time Lord hanging around to protect humans from Daleks, Cybermen, Blinking Angels and the usual monsters the Doctor has battled since the beginning of “Doctor Who.” In the teaser trailer, released by BBC America Friday at New York Comic …

Hitachi is leaning on Roku to make its latest televisions smarter. The Japanese conglomerate launched a new line of televisions with Roku’s streaming set-top box capabilities built in. The prices of the televisions range from $499 to $999. Hitachi is just the latest to partner with Roku; TCL had previously struck a similar alliance. For Roku, getting on more televisions …

Many “Stranger Things” fans have already dissected the first season of the hit Netflix series ad nauseam, but it’s comforting to know real-life employees of the US Department of Energy are as obsessed with the show as everyone else. It makes sense, since one of the main villains in the series heads up a covert lab working under the directive …

A version of Chrome due in a two months will give your PC or phone back some of that precious memory it’s been gobbling up. Memory is a scarce resource in computing devices, making apps run faster and letting them do more. As websites get more complex and web browsers get more powerful, though, they gobble up more and more …

Samsung’s exploding Galaxy Note 7 doesn’t appear to have hurt the company’s earnings too much in the third quarter. The Korean electronics giant said Thursday that it expects its operating profit during the period to come in at 7.7 trillion won ($6.9 billion), a modest increase of about 5 percent compared with the same period last year. The guidance is …