Twitter is already the place to go for reaction to the presidential debates. Now the social network will be broadcasting them too. The San Francisco-based company announced Wednesday it will live-stream Bloomberg TV’s coverage of the debates between Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton and her Republican challenger Donald Trump on its platform. It seems fitting since …

Now playing: Watch this: North Korea’s internet has only 28 websites 1:25 Much of North Korea’s internet is closed off from the world. But there are some websites that people on the outside can see. We never knew how many websites there were — until now. A researcher happened to ping the web at just the right moment (perhaps when …

The “it’s a dog’s life” phrase is used to describe people that lead a miserably existence. Whoever coined it, though, has never met Coco, an Alaskan malamute whose owner showered her with not one, not two but eight brand new Apple iPhone 7 devices. The owner, Wang Sicong, is the son of Wang Jianlin, China’s richest man. The elder Wang …

We’re just starting to get a clearer picture of Apple’s “Portrait” mode. A new beta version of iOS 10 released to developers on Wednesday includes software for taking portraits, according to MacRumors. Portraits is a feature the Cupertino, California-based tech giant touted when it introduced the enormous iPhone 7 Plus earlier this month and it’s just now getting tested out. …

Virtual reality as of late has been closely linked with the phone and video game industries. However, a Japanese tech startup is using the platform for something different: stress management. Part VR headset, part brain monitor, DG Lab’s Brainwave VR headset comes equipped with built-in electroencephalogram (EEG) sensors, which measure the brain’s electrical activity. The headset monitors users’ mental states …

Google’s highly anticipated “smart” messaging app, Google Allo, is finally available for (most) of the masses. The app started rolling out last night, and should be available worldwide in the “next few days,” according to Google. Google Allo is your basic modern-day chat app, with a Google twist. Like its competitors — WhatsApp, Line, Facebook Messenger, iMessage, and so forth …

Google’s Allo gives users a messaging app with Google Assistant built in, offering automatically generated responses called Smart Replies and other computer-generated suggestions for your everyday life. To make those features as useful as possible, Google made a trade-off with your privacy, the company confirmed Wednesday. Instead of keeping your messages on company servers for a short period of time, …

Beware if you tend to veer into dystopian paranoia: Cinemark CEO Mark Zoradi offered a glimpse of moviegoing’s future Wednesday, and it includes windowless rooms where our children have replaced Little League baseball with Minecraft tourneys. The executive said Wednesday that Cinemark anticipates virtual reality and gaming as opportunities for “significant alternative content” to the traditional feature-length films in its …

If you’ve ever thought that Instagram was too instant and wanted time to ponder before you post, you may be in luck. Instagram just rolled out a new feature to all of its users that allows people to save a draft of the post they are working on. This lets people come back to a picture they were going to …

Governments around the world are keeping Twitter busy. During the first half of the year, the micro-blogging service received a total 5,676 requests for information about accounts. That’s 2.1 percent more requests than in the previous six-month period. The US accounted for 2,520 requests, followed by Japan (732), the UK (631) and France (572). In 69 percent of the cases, …