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Now playing: Watch this: Google Allo puts an assistant in your pocket 1:37 Life is full of tough conversations. When push comes to shove, you have only two options: Be an adult and tackle them head on, or let an app generate replies so you don’t have to. Cowering behind an app may not be …

If privacy when surfing the World Wide Web is something you value, then using a virtual private network (VPN) to obscure your surfing patterns is a must. While most VPNs either require a subscription fee or installing additional software on your PC, Opera’s latest update to its stable desktop browser version adds VPN functionality for free and turning it on …

This story is part of our Road Trip 2016 summer series “Life, Disrupted,” about how technology is helping with the global refugee crisis — if at all. Omar Mohamed has helped dozens of African refugees resettle in the US. Among the first items he sets up for them: a mobile phone. On a hot June day, the 28-year-old case manager …

After I updated my iPhone 6S to iOS 10 it felt like it was on fire for the first few hours, and not in the good way. My iPhone got hotter than it ever has while performance slowed to a crawl. The situation improved by the end of iOS 10’s launch day; my iPhone 6S was back operating at its …

Three news organizations are suing the FBI to learn how the agency broke into an iPhone used by one of the terrorists involved in last year’s San Bernardino, California, mass shooting. Vice, the Associated Press and Gannett, the parent of national newspaper USA Today, are seeking details about source of the security crack that the FBI used and about government …

Google Street View cameras don’t discriminate. They see everything in their path, whether it’s a building, a person or a beast. People get their faces obscured for the sake of privacy, but Google’s automated blurring software got a little impulsive when it smudged out a cow’s face. Related stories Forget Google Street View. Meet this tiny island’s sheep view India …

Anthony Romero knows Edward Snowden broke the law. Still, the executive director of the ACLU said, “Edward Snowden should be thanked and not punished.” His remarks came as three major human rights groups launched the Pardon Snowden campaign Wednesday to advocate for the former NSA contractor who revealed widespread government surveillance programs. At a press conference in New York, broadcast …

Now playing: Watch this: iOS 10: 7 settings to change when you upgrade 2:32 iOS 10 brings plenty of new features and interface tweaks to improve the performance of your device. But there are some settings you may want to change right off the bat. Stop tracking your location Like previous versions of the operating system, iOS 10 keeps track …

Now playing: Watch this: Joseph Gordon-Levitt says he wants Snowden pardoned 2:39 Enlarge Image Edward Snowden says he did the right thing and should be pardoned. Jason Seiler Sure, Edward Snowden may have broken the law. But morally and ethically, he did the right thing, he told the Guardian in an interview published Tuesday. Snowden drew international attention to internet …

An internet-connected vibrator is rubbing at least one consumer the wrong way. A lawsuit, filed earlier this month in a Chicago federal court, alleges Standard Innovation’s We-Vibe secretly collects “highly intimate and sensitive” data and transmits it back to the company’s servers in real time. The lawsuit, filed by an Illinois woman identified only by the initials N.P., alleges the …