Apple on Wednesday released the first firmware update for its wireless AirPods ($165 at eBay). The update bumps the firmware from 3.3.1 to 3.5.1, but without a change log it’s hard to know what Apple fixed, changed or added. The update was first spotted by a Reddit user. If you’ve had your AirPods connected to …

New York’s attorney general is suing the second-largest cable operator in the US, claiming the company lied about internet speeds. Eric Schneiderman filed the lawsuit ( pdf) in Manhattan’s State Supreme Court on Wednesday, following a 16-month investigation. The attorney general argues that Charter and its subsidiary, Spectrum, have provided subpar services, with internet speeds slower than the company advertised. …

Twitter’s former CEO is still regretting not curbing online abuse sooner on the social network. “I wish I could turn back the clock and go back to 2010 and stop abuse on the platform by creating a very specific bar for how to behave on the platform,” Dick Costolo said Wednesday at the Upfront Summit conference in Los Angeles, according …

AT&T is laying the groundwork for 5G wireless technology in Austin, Texas, and Indianapolis. The telecom giant on Wednesday said it would launch its first “5G Evolution” markets in those two cities, likely looking to upgrade the infrastructure to prepare for the next-generation of wireless technology. The company said both cities will see theoretical peak speeds of 400 megabits per …

Apple is back on top. The company overtook Samsung as the world’s top smartphone vendor in the final three months of 2016, according to Strategy Analytics. The iPhone maker captured 18 percent of the global market in the December quarter, said the firm. Apple on Tuesday reported it sold 78.3 million iPhones in the fourth quarter, snapping a three-quarter streak …

Government rules that would put an end to set-top box rental fees are likely dead. Ahead of the agency’s open meeting Tuesday, the new chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, Ajit Pai, removed the proposed rules from a list of items to be considered by the FCC. At a press conference following the agency’s open meeting, Pai wouldn’t comment on …

Familiarity breeds comfort. At least, that’s the case with the iPhone 7. Apple hardly changed the body of its flagship phone, yet consumers cozied up to the device like never before. Apple sold more iPhones than ever before — 78.3 million — and snapped a three-quarter streak of iPhone unit sales declines. Analysts had expected the company to sell 78 …

Ready to go toe-to-toe against the likes of Steph Curry or LeBron James? You could with Take-Two Interactive’s MyPlayer feature of its NBA 2K15 and NBA 2K16 games, which — through the magic of facial scanning — puts your face on one of the virtual players. But if you’re worried about how Take-Two will store and use your biometric data, …

Lenovo is one of the last companies still churning out cool and reasonably priced Android tablets worth buying, and it looks like the company may be adding another to its list. A mysterious model popped up on benchmarking website Geekbench with the model number TB-8703F. By the looks of the specs listed, it could be a newer version of the …

Customers are turning to Sprint again. In fact, they’re starting to look to the nation’s fourth-largest wireless carrier over stalwarts like AT&T and Verizon Wireless. The company said it added 405,000 net new post-paid subscribers — people who pay at the end of the month and tend to be more loyal. Of that total, 368,000 were phone customers, Sprint’s highest …