Google is bringing tools to fight fake news to its most important and iconic product: search. The tech giant said Friday that it’s adding “fact check” labels to some of the results in its search engine. If you search for something and a story from a credible fact-checking source like PolitiFact or Snopes comes up, …

Which internet providers actually deliver the speeds their ads claim? We’re about to find out. The government on Friday announced the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission will be monitoring 4,000 households and retail outlets equipped with fixed-line NBN to see what speeds the volunteering customers are actually getting. The catchily-titled Broadband Performance Monitoring and Reporting (BPMR) program will see the …

Showtime now lets subscribers download anything in its streaming app to a phone, freeing you up to watch when you’re on a plane ride or suffering through zero connectivity. (Just plan in advance.) The network is following in the footsteps of Netflix and Amazon, which offer the perk for parts of their potpourri catalog. Amazon’s subscription video service has long …

Twitter on Thursday introduced a speedier, more data-friendly version of its social media website to attract more people in developing markets. Twitter Lite uses less data, loads faster on slower wireless connections and takes up less than a megabyte of memory on a device. The mobile web app loads up to 30 percent faster on a 3G device than the …

Samsung’s ready to claw its way back from the Galaxy Note 7 disaster. The company on Thursday estimated its operating profit for the first quarter should jump nearly 50 percent from the same period a year ago, while its revenue should be about flat but better than analysts expected. See also Samsung’s chips make up for Galaxy Note 7 financial …

Put away that selfie stick (please, really, put it away). There’s a new way to get those all-important vanity shots: a selfie drone. These drones aren’t toys, they’re not for racing and their cameras aren’t designed to shoot high-flying cinematic views. These drones are specifically designed to grab the best aerial selfies — aka dronies. See more from CNET Magazine. …

People say there’s no such thing as a free lunch, but if I rack up enough points on my Which Wich rewards card, eventually I’ll be eating a sandwich gratis. OK, but free cell service? Definitely no such thing. Except, yes, there is, thanks to Freedompop. For the price of a SIM card (about $20, but much less if you’re …

Brave, a new web browser challenging bigger rivals like Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox, wants to take privacy on the internet to the next level. Like all other browsers, Brave includes a “private browsing” option that leaves no traces of online activity on your computer and makes websites think you’ve never visited before. But the startup is working on adding …

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If you go to a few brand pages on Facebook, like HBO’s, you might notice a new tab along the left edge of the page: groups. It’s an easy-to-miss addition, but it actually represents a big push for CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his social network: building out Facebook’s platforms for large online communities, instead of just connecting people with friends …