In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 seconds if Instagram gets its way. While Instagram might be home to fashion bloggers, fitness posers and celebrities offering a candid window into their #blessed daily lives, the social platform is now playing host to its own short film, with a 28-part thriller series directed by …

If you are a frequent shopper at the Mac App Store and are tired of entering your password each time you go to download an app, there are two settings you should know about. Unfortunately, it seems to me you can’t use both at the same time. To find them, open System Preferences, choose App Store and look at the …

Your battery indicator shows a cool 40 percent and then suddenly, it’s dead. With older iPhones, it’s a common problem — years of use throw off the calibration while the battery’s capacity dwindles. We’re talking about the iPhone 6S and 6S Plus, though — these phones haven’t even had their half-birthdays. The issue, according to Apple, is that the battery …

Six months after launch, Windows 10 has finally leapfrogged over both XP and 8.1 to become the second most popular desktop operating system in terms of Web traffic. In January, Windows 10 snagged a global market share of 11.85 percent, up from 9.96 percent in December, researcher Net Market Share reported Monday. The latest number showed a healthy upturn following …

If you told me a video of someone slicing into a clementine with a scalpel would hold my attention for a full 3 minutes and 16 seconds, I would have scoffed. Then I watched just that on a new YouTube channel launched by an anonymous user who goes by the name The Food Surgeon, and I was hooked. While watching …

The place: Park City, Utah. The scene: the Sundance Film Festival. Snow crunches underfoot as film industry figures, filmmakers and filmgoers hurry through the cold to catch the first glimpse of the coolest movies of 2016. But in the new year, some of the most talked-about Sundance happenings aren’t films at all. At the annual festival, which takes place in …

Samsung may be about to announce its next flagship phone, the Galaxy S7, but that doesn’t mean it’s going to turn its back on the Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge. The pair of phones is set to get the Android 6.01 Marshmallow software update, according to SamMobile, starting with those in South Korea. Introduced back in October, Android 6.0 Marshmallow …

You’re increasingly watching video on the go, with your phone taking over as the central source of entertainment. AT&T recognizes that, and has shaken up the responsibilities of its top lieutenants as it attempts to better tie together its video and mobile services. The Dallas telecommunications giant appointed longtime mobile head Ralph de la Vega vice chairman and put him …

Will Peyton Manning win his second Super Bowl, or will newcomer Cam Newton capture his first? These questions will be answered on Sunday, February 7, when the Denver Broncos take on the Carolina Panthers in Super Bowl 50 at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, California. The game will be broadcast on CBS, which you can access with a cable subscription …

Aerial drones are small, tricky and fast, but they have their predators. We’ve seen them taken out of the air by flying pumpkins, chimps, firefighters and birds of prey. Pumpkins are difficult to aim. Chimps are unreliable. Firefighters have better things to do. But eagles may be an actual solution to enforcing no-fly zones for drones. Dutch police are trying …