Pope Francis is largely beloved by the Internet. Now, he’s meeting with one of its leaders. The pope will meet with Eric Schmidt, executive chairman of Alphabet, the parent company of Google. The Guardian earlier reported the news. The meeting will last 15 minutes and take place in the Vatican in Rome, the report said. …

Have you streamed Netflix’s crime documentary “Making a Murderer” yet? The series follows the cases of Steven Avery and Brendan Dassey, two Wisconsin men convicted of the 2005 murder of 25-year-old Teresa Halbach. Avery was convicted of rape in a separate case in 1985, but DNA evidence exonerated him in 2003 after he served 18 years in prison. Stephen Colbert …

Windows 10 has had some issues with display scaling on high-resolution screens — you may have noticed that some of your legacy apps on Windows 10 have (or had — they’ve been slowly fixing this) minuscule user interfaces, with icons and text so tiny you can barely see them, let alone click them. Well, I have some good and bad …

Google updated its Google app, which includes the Google Now Launcher, with some small tweaks on Wednesday. If you’re using a Nexus device and haven’t installed a third-party launcher app, such as Action Launcher 3 (or similar), you’re already using the Google Now Launcher. On other devices, such as Samsung’s Galaxy line you have to explicitly enable Google’s launcher in …

Ooma, Alexa. Alexa, Ooma. (In case you don’t get the reference, see David Letterman’s notorious Academy Awards shtick.) The Amazon Echo smart speaker (which often goes by its nom de operation, Alexa) learned a bunch of new tricks at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show. Among them: how to make nice with the Ooma home telephone system. Ooma (Ooma, Alexa! Alexa, …

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If you’re worked up because you read that Moto’s parent-company Lenovo plans to remove the Moto G and Moto E from its future lineups, you can relax. A recent report from China-based site Tech Sina got the rumor mill pumping today with talk that Lenovo would phase out the two budget phones, similar to Lenovo’s plans to axe the Motorola …

This story is part of CES 2016. Our editors bring you complete CES 2016 coverage and scour the showroom floor for the hottest new tech gadgets around. After some initial excitement it’s easy to become emotionally hardened by CES. It’s big, it’s loud, it’s confusing, and also confused at times. Yet sometimes it can bring you little audio gems that …

President Barack Obama will deliver his final State of the Union address on Tuesday. Hopefully, he’ll be wearing vintage goggles and an orange jumpsuit and Luke and Owen Wilson will be in the audience. OK, that’s doubtful, but a CNN video, “The State of the Union Address as a Wes Anderson Film,” certainly suggests the whimsical possibilities of a mashup …

Personal computers wheezed their way to the end of 2015, even as Apple managed to gain ground. Buffeted by consumer infatuation with tablets and phones, worldwide shipments of PCs continued spiraling lower in the final three months of 2015, according to research firms IDC and Gartner. Consumer interest in PCs was so weak, shipments for the year fell to the …