Black Friday and Cyber Monday are likely to bring deep discounts on Amazon gear, but I’m not sure we’ll see anything that quite matches this: Today only, and while supplies last, HSN has the Amazon Fire TV Cube for $59.99. Amazon’s current price: $119.99. Update: Shipping is not free; it’s $3.50. See it at HSN …

Election Day is coming up next week. Do you know when are the polls open? Amazon’s Alexa is fueled up with knowledge regarding the midterm elections on Nov. 6, the company says. You can ask her questions like, “Alexa, who’s running for Senate in California?” or “Alexa, how many seats did Republicans gain?” Whether it’s a question about voting, voter …

When you think about robots stealing jobs, you think about AI, about new technology that supercedes the bounds of humanity. You’re probably not thinking about “snail mail”. But the Norwegian postal service, Posten, has just signed a partnership with a San Francisco startup called Buddy Mobility to provide a robot that literally delivers your mail. To your door. Kinda. It …

Like group FaceTime calls with iOS 12.1, video chats with multiple people are possible on a Mac with MacOS Mojave 10.14.1. And unlike on the cramped quarters of your iPhone, you’ll have plenty of screen space to chat with up to 32 people.  Now playing: Watch this: Apple MacOS Mojave is here, but we’re still waiting for… 2:08 How to …

Europe, the continent that gave the world Nokia, Ericsson and GSM networks, did much to build the mobile phone as we know it today. But the continent’s reign as the world leader in mobile technology has come to an end with the advent of the speediest networks the world has ever seen: 5G. Though some carriers in the US, South Korea …

Apple’s iOS 12.1 update brought digital eSim support to the iPhone XS, XS Max, and XR on Tuesday, but US carriers won’t support the feature until later in the year due to reported technical problems. eSIM is the software-based version of the traditional plastic chip that identifies you to your carrier, and Apple highlighted it and the new iPhones’ dual …

Any time a new gadget comes out like the new iPad Pro, it’s exciting. But let’s take a step back and analyze what we saw beyond the slick hardware and snazzy demos. Here’s why you should maybe hold off on getting the new iPad Pro. (There are plenty of reasons to upgrade, of course, but we’ll double back here and …

Politicians from the UK and Canada want to hear from Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg at a joint hearing in London next month, the latest effort to get him to testify in Britain. The UK’s Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee and its Canadian counterpart wrote to Zuckerberg on Wednesday. Damien Collins, a member of Parliament who heads the UK committee, …

Sprint is in the midst of a “lame duck” session as it awaits a takeover by bigger rival T-Mobile. And it’s been keeping itself busy with an upgrade to — what else? — 5G . The smallest of the four national wireless carriers, which earlier this year struck a deal to be acquired by T-Mobile to create a larger No. …

When Apple announced Tuesday that its iPad Pro had ditched the proprietary Lightning port in favor of USB-C, my eyes lit up. Lightning has had a good run, but I’d be happy to toss my collection of Lightning cables into my junk drawer alongside the ones for Firewire hard drives, VGA video and printers that perversely used those weird squarish …