Now playing: Watch this: The best phones you can get right now 1:51 You’re up to date on everything you need to know before buying a phone, and now the time has come to actually dig out your wallet and go for it. There are tons of great phones that will fit your exact size, …

With a digital mapping service called What3words, residents of even the smallest, most rural village in the African nation of Ivory Coast now have an official address. The country’s postal system just adopted the startup’s technology, which assigns a three-word phrase to each 3-meter square on the map. For example, heaven.mallard.houseguests is a structure on the outskirts of Mberie. The …

Mass-sending that dog-face-filter selfie has never been easier. Snapchat released a new feature Tuesday, allowing people to create groups of up to 16 friends. Before the update, you had to individually check off each of your Snapchat friends to send Snaps. That can get annoying and hard to keep up with, especially amid stacks of notifications and replies. You can …

Heartbreaking messages are coming out of Aleppo as civilian deaths keep rising amid Syria’s war. Many who believe their lives are about to end are sending posts to social media in a desperate but mostly futile plea for help. Twitter is also focused on former Texas Gov. Rick Perry becoming President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to head the Department of Energy. …

If you always hated having to open a new browser tab just to do your currency conversions, Opera is going to make you a lot happier this holiday season. The latest update to the company’s desktop browser will feature a built-in converter that’s easily accessible by simply highlighting an item’s price and the browser will display the converted rate above. …

Slack, which has become the chat software of choice in the workplace, now lets users set up videoconferencing from within Slack’s desktop apps. Users can make video calls to one person or to a group by clicking on the same icon that launches voice calling. That, in turn, brings up another button with an icon of a video camera, the …

Americans who fancy access to the British TV soap “EastEnders” rejoice! British broadcasting giants BBC Worldwide and ITV announced a partnership on Tuesday to launch a Netflix-like streaming video service called BritBox in the US next year. The ad-free service is expected to launch in the first quarter of 2017 on the web as well as Roku, Apple TV and …

Imagine you’re on a guided tour in Chartres cathedral in France along with tourists from Brazil, China, Russia and Germany — but none of you speaks French. For the last few decades, you’d each need your own tour guide. A new app from Microsoft aims to flatten this multilanguage barrier, though. The Microsoft Translator app, running on your phone but …

A new fingerprint sensor has just arrived that could make your next phone’s screen significantly bigger without making the phone itself larger. Touch-tech expert Synaptics announced the new fingerprint sensor on Tuesday, an optical model that fits under a phone screen’s cover glass. That contrasts with today’s capacitive models that need dedicated territory, like the circular home button at the …

I’ve said it before, never underestimate the creativity of Reddit. I was lurking around Photoshop battles yesterday when a strange looking picture of a hairless guinea pig showed up. Here’s the photo in question: Reddit user: i_love_applebees I didn’t think much of it, other than that it was pretty creepy looking. I assumed people wouldn’t do much with it, and …