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This is part of our Road Trip 2017 summer series “The Smartest Stuff,” about how innovators are thinking up new ways to make you — and the world around you — smarter.  Snowflakes flutter around my face, taking me back to my childhood in Ohio where I’d tilt back my head to gaze at the swirl of …

Modular phones sound like a great idea: Add the bits you want to custom-build your own dream smartphone. So far, however, Google’s Project Ara and LG haven’t managed to make them work. Perhaps Facebook could give it a go next, as the social network attempts to patent a modular device. Business Insider spotted the new patent application, published Thursday, for a …

Last week, I argued that the first generation of VR headsets might not be worth buying, even at half the original price. This week, two Facebook executives tried to convince me otherwise.  In an interview — leaning on a huge, ornate wooden table that would fit right into Game of Thrones — they explained that technological advancements such as eye …

Now playing: Watch this: Google search gets a Facebook face-lift 1:49 Facebook already tailors its feed of news, sports scores and viral videos to show you what you want. Now Google is going to do it too. In a classic case of Silicon Valley “Anything you can do I can do better,” the search giant on Wednesday updated its free …

VR is hard for some people to grasp. It’s not necessarily hard to get into, but it’s pretty hard to buy into. And not (just) because of the price, but because VR’s biggest problem is that you aren’t hyped about it — and you can’t be an evangelist about it — until you try it. But sometimes, you find that …

If you’re used to getting the bulk of your news from Facebook, your news consumption habits may be about to change. The world’s largest social media platform is testing the waters for a subscription-based news product, Campbell Brown, the head of news partnerships at Facebook, said Tuesday at the Digital Publishing Innovation Summit in New York. Plans for the service, …

If there’s one thing worse than “Game of Thrones” spoilers, it’s not being able to watch the show at all. Foxtel says it’s “devastated” after its IPTV service Foxtel Now crashed last night, just as desperate Australians all across the country were trying to stream “Game of Thrones.” Though the episode first went to air at 11:30 a.m. AEST yesterday, …

Telegram may have escaped Russia’s threats to ban it, but in Indonesia that wasn’t the case. On Sunday, the founder of the free encrypted messaging app, Pavel Durov, posted on his Telegram channel that the company has removed “all terrorist-related public channels” previously reported by Indonesia’s Ministry of Communication and IT. The move comes after Indonesian authorities banned the messaging service …

Millions of people have answered a call to support the Federal Communications Commission’s existing net neutrality rules.  But will that be enough to convince the agency to back off of its plan to kill them? In response to the planned overhaul, the Republican-led FCC has received a record-breaking 7.4 million comments — nearly double the amount it received in 2014 when it …

Sen. Al Franken wants to make sure that deep-pocketed broadband companies can’t hijack the internet. That’s the message the Minnesota Democrat has been delivering in a series of videos, tweets and Facebook posts in support of the FCC’s 2015 net neutrality rules. Franken, along with several other Democrats in the Senate, have been turning up the pressure on the FCC …