Motorola on Wednesday rolled out software that lets you use your Edge Plus phone‘s features on a bigger scale. The Ready For software hub, available for Verizon customers, lets you use the 5G phone’s main 108MP rear camera for video calls while connected to a TV or a display with USB-C cable. You can also …

Samsung on Wednesday held an Unpacked event for its new Galaxy A series of affordable phones. The event follows January’s Unpacked event where the Galaxy S21 and S21 Ultra were launched. Due to the pandemic, Samsung streamed the event, which consisted of a prerecorded video. Samsung wanted to bring “awesome to everyone” and showed off three new Galaxy A series phones: the …

Samsung tends to use its splashy Unpacked events to show off the newest high-end gadgets in its Galaxy S, Galaxy Note and Galaxy Z families of phones. But it’s the company’s midrange A Series, which last year started at $110, that will take center stage at its next big product event.  On 7 a.m. PT Wednesday, Samsung is set to …

If you’re worried about falling in with a bad crowd on Facebook, a new change from the social media giant should help. The website will now alert you if a group you’re joining has run afoul of its rules. Facebook will also limit the invite notifications for these groups to reduce membership and limit the distribution of their content, the …

You’ve gotta love an industry that keeps tossing out new gaming graphics processors that get snatched out of midair before you can catch them. The latest in what I hope is the last of these launches for a while is AMD’s Radeon RX 6700 XT, the new entry-level graphics card in the company’s RX 6000 generation. It follows the recently launched RX …

Clubhouse, the invite-only audio-chat app that’s all the rage in Silicon Valley, is under investigation by the National Commission for Computing and Liberties (CNIL), a French privacy watchdog group, after a complaint. The complaint called into question Clubhouse’s compliance with European data privacy regulations, and initial verification from the CNIL found that the company isn’t established with the European Union, …

Apparently actor Justin Long isn’t a Mac anymore.  Long, who appeared in Apple commercials with comedian John Hodgman in the late 2000s (the “I’m a Mac, I’m a PC” guys), is now starring in a series of ads for Intel, flipping the script on the campaign that made PCs look like least hip devices around.  In the new ads, Long …

Popular encrypted social media app Signal has become “unusable” for some in China, The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday, suggesting that the app may have been blocked in the world’s most populous country.  Signal users in China reported issues sending or receiving messages on Monday night, according to the Journal. The issues reportedly went away when they used a virtual private …

There have been many apps and services that promise to help you organize the photos and video on your phone, make editing a snap and simplify sharing. GoPro’s updated Quik app is the latest I’ve tried, and it might be the first one I’ll actually continue using. That’s mainly because it’s fairly frictionless to use and sort of rewards you …

The Federal Communications Commission issued its largest fine in history, against Texas-based telemarketers who transmitted approximately 1 billion robocalls to sell fake health insurance policies. The $225 million fine is part of the first major effort by acting FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel to stamp out illegal robocalls.  The agency alleges in a statement Wednesday that the telemarketers illegally spoofed phone numbers …