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Marshmallow, the latest flavor of Google’s Android mobile operating system, is still on only a tiny fraction of devices. But it looks like it’s starting to stick. Launched in early October, Android 6.0 Marshmallow is on 1.2 percent of Android devices, according to the latest stats offered up by Google’s Android Developer Dashboard. While a tiny percentage, it’s a significant …

Imagine commanding your iPhone or iPad without your finger actually touching the screen. A new Apple patent proposes just that. The patent “Proximity and multi-touch sensor detection and demodulation,” granted Tuesday to Apple by the US Patent and Trademark Office, describes sensors that detect the position and motion of your finger or fingers hovering above the screen. Your device would …

Recently I got the chance to spend some time with a Micro 3D Printer, my first foray into the world of turning a spool of plastic filament into, well, just about anything. I had lots of fun downloading existing designs from sites like Pinshape and Thingiverse, but eventually I wanted to create objects of my own. Unfortunately, I don’t have …

You’re sitting in a coffee shop, your eyeballs glued to the phone. YouTube is open, and you’re waiting for the latest comic-book movie trailer to load. Instead, you get the oh-so-familiar circular loading icon instead. And it keeps spinning and spinning. It’s at these moments that you wonder if the time has come to switch wireless carriers. But which carrier? …

Microsoft made good Monday on its promise to give Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 users a shove toward Windows 10. The shove arrived in the form of Windows 10’s shift from an “optional” upgrade to a “recommended” upgrade. Microsoft’s move comes as the Windows 10 operating system finally passed Windows XP and Windows 8.1 last month in terms of market …

Most people are content with normal action figures that can be lined up in rows and admired on a bookshelf. But some people aren’t going to settle for a toy that can get lost behind the couch cushions. They want a figure that will scare the bejeezus out of them when they catch sight of it late at night in …

Marissa Mayer is cleaning house. The question is whether the makeover is to keep Yahoo going for the long term or to sweep out the clutter and attract potential buyers. To turn Yahoo around, the CEO said Tuesday that she’s cutting about 1,700 jobs, shutting down services like Games, and selling off patents and real estate in the hopes of …

Magic Leap has an almost magical way of getting money. The secretive startup is working on what it calls “mixed reality” technology. It’s different from the virtual reality we’ve all heard about, which uses goggles to strap a screen to your face and display computer-generated images. In mixed reality, computer-generated images are layered on top of the real world. How …

Three months ago, I decided to try the BlackBerry Priv. And by “try,” I don’t mean I fiddled with the phone at my local cellular store. No, I did something a bit bolder. One November afternoon, with a mixed sense of joy and dread, I replaced my perfectly good Samsung Galaxy S6 with a BlackBerry Priv. It’s been my primary …