Just in case you were considering flying your camera-toting quadcopter — or any other model aircraft — around Levi’s Stadium for Super Bowl 50, don’t. Just don’t. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) issued a temporary flight restriction (TFR) prohibiting flying of unmanned aerial systems within a 32-nautical-mile radius of the big game on Sunday. The …

For Verizon, it’s time to get competitive on prepaid. The carrier announced changes to its prepaid plans on Thursday in an effort to keep up with competing carrier offerings. The upshot: Verizon customers on these plans get more data for their money than they did before. As customers seek better and lower-priced rate plans, prepaid service providers are becoming increasingly …

Apple on Wednesday updated the beta app of Apple Music for Android with bug fixes and a new feature some subscribers are sure to love: Apple Music can now store music on an SD card. The ability to move a music catalog to external storage is an easy way to free up storage on your smartphone. And depending on what …

LinkedIn’s efforts to get professionals excited about its social network are not paying off as fast as some expected, especially investors. LinkedIn announced Thursday that its fourth-quarter earnings and revenue had topped analysts’ estimates. But the company’s stock closed down 40 percent on trading Friday after it issued weaker-than-expected guidance. It was the second time in the past nine months …

Apple sure isn’t impressed by Samsung’s Supreme Court plea. On Thursday, the iPhone maker filed its response to Samsung’s request for the US Supreme Court to examine the patent infringement suit between the two electronics giants. And shocker, it doesn’t want this thing to drag out. Apple argued that the case is “legally unexceptional” and asked the court not to …

My Gmail inbox is a clean, spam-free place, and I like to keep it that way. Like many of you, I use a separate email address for funneling new site registrations, newsletters and sales alerts. This division of church and state between my two accounts has kept my personal Gmail inbox personal and relatively clutter-free. Until now. The first questionable …

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National Football League player Thomas Davis had both a triumphant and a devastating game on January 24. His Carolina Panthers dominated the Arizona Cardinals and earned a trip to the Super Bowl, but at the expense of a broken right forearm for Davis. Davis may be carrying some extra equipment with him onto the field if he plays in Super …

Democratic presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders will take the stage for one last debate prior to the New Hampshire primary. This will be the first debate without former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley, who suspended his campaign following the Iowa Caucus. The debate is scheduled to take place at the University of New Hampshire in Durham, and will be …

Stressing “curiousity” and “creativity” and timing the launch to avoid the noise of CES in January, Sony today announced the replacement for its immensely popular APS-C sensor-based A6000, the A6300, and a new line of flagship lenses, called G Master. The A6300 incorporates a new 24.2-megapixel sensor and new 425-point phase-detection autofocus. It uses on-sensor phase detection so it works …