Two US congressmen used an impromptu road trip to Washington to answer questions on Facebook Live. After Texas Reps. Beto O’Rourke, a Democrat, and Will Hurd, a Republican, had their flights canceled Tuesday because of a blizzard, they decided to hop in a car and drive from San Antonio, Texas, to Washington to be present …

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai is pushing for his boss President Donald Trump and Congress to include broadband in an upcoming infrastructure spending bill. In a speech Wednesday at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pai made the case to lawmakers that broadband should be a priority in the bill, because it’s a driving force for economic growth. He also …

Aziz Ansari’s critically-acclaimed, Emmy and Peabody award-winning Netflix original series “Master of None” will return for a second season on May 12. The stand-up comedian/actor/author/director of Kanye West music video parodies shared the news by tweeting a criminally short teaser trailer featuring him and Eric Wareheim, creator of “Tim and Eric Awesome Show,” joyfully riding scooters through a scenic Italy …

Do you read the terms of service for every service you sign up for? Stop lying, you don’t. But you have a very good reason. They’re very long and very boring, and you just want to get stuck into whatever you’re signing up for. That’s all well and good, but according to Australian consumer rights advocacy group Choice, that lengthy …

It was inevitable that DxO, long-time benchmarkers of camera sensors, would inevitably turn its attention to the eyes in the skies. The company tested a handful of the cameras that come with popular drones — 5 DJI models, the GoPro Karma’s Hero5 Black and the Yuneec Breeze 4K. The results aren’t very surprising, though they do serve to drive home …

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If you’re a Yahoo user, you might be happy to hear the FBI and Department of Justice got the Russian hackers responsible for a massive cyberattack in 2014. But there’s another person who’s showing a measure of gratitude as well: Marissa Mayer. Yahoo’s CEO tweeted her appreciation on Wednesday. “Very grateful to the FBI & DOJ for bringing to justice …

Where you’ve already been on the web turns out to be a pretty important predictor of where you’d like to go next. That’s why the next version of Vivaldi, a newer competitor to the likes of Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox, is putting browser history front and center. The new Vivaldi 1.8, due to arrive as soon as next week, …

AMD managed to make the word “mainstream” into something to be excited about. The company officially announced its complete mid-level Ryzen 5 series of desktop PC processors set to arrive April 11. Aimed at enthusiasts on a budget, the processors are a step down from the Ryzen 7 CPUs released earlier this month, but more powerful than the Ryzen 3 …

Now playing: Watch this: A beginner’s guide to VR 2:00 When it comes to phone-powered VR, the iPhone is scarcely mentioned. Google’s Cardboard and Daydream get most of the attention, though Samsung’s Gear VR is in the mix as well. But Apple? It’ll be June’s WWDC event at the earliest before we learn of any plans to jump into VR, …