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If you live in Indianapolis, your internet may soon be a lot faster. Verizon on Tuesday said it’s bringing 5G residential broadband service to Indianapolis, and it’s offering YouTube TV and Apple TV 4K as part of the package. “We trialed 5G during the Indianapolis 500 in May 2017 and now we’re bringing next generation …

Thunderous applause erupts as I enter the building. I look around and blanketing my field of vision is a small army of black-and-magenta-garbed T-Mobile employees shouting, screaming and waving thunder sticks at me. They form a path deeper in, yet I’m already dizzy and overwhelmed from the sensory overload. As far as greetings go, this is insane. I walk through …

T-Mobile is sweetening its Un-carrier event with a little free music.  The nation’s third-largest wireless service provider said Wednesday that customers would get access to Pandora Plus, a paid version of its streaming music service. T-Mobile has also struck a deal with Live Nation to offer reserved seats at sold-out events and discounted tickets to outdoor amphitheater shows.  The pitch …

Sprint is planting its own flag in the 5G race. The nation’s fourth-largest wireless carrier, poised to merge with T-Mobile next year, said Tuesday that it has tapped LG to build a 5G smartphone and believes it will be the first to market with one next year.  “We think we’re far enough along in the development that we would be …

Heidi Klum was only half correct on Project Runway. It’s true that one day you’re in and the next day, you’re out. But a few years after that? You could be in again. That pendulum swing applies not just in fashion — though I refuse to believe that pleated pants deserve a comeback — but also in technology. Consider the …

Keeping your phone safe from malicious apps is hard enough, with Google stamping out hundreds of thousands of bad apps every year. Your phone makes for an attractive target. Apps open up a lot of access to your devices, reaching into your contacts, your location, your data usage, among the many private details you share with your phone. So you …

It’s a fine example of a first-world problem: Spend $1,000 on the Samsung Galaxy Note 9 now, or endure the wait until next year and the potentially massive upgrades to come. That’s a decision some of you will have to make after Samsung unveiled its Note 9 on Thursday. To be fair, this is a question everyone could ask themselves. …

If, like me, you’re tired of these megahuge phones for people with these megahuge hands — like the just announced 6.4-inch(!) Note 9, for example — Palm may have something in store for you. As reported by Android Police, Palm is rumored to be launching a new Android phone with US carrier Verizon, and it will have a very pocketable …

Verizon is partnering up with Apple for an offer that’ll be music to customers’ ears. Unlimited customers can get six months of Apple Music for free from Aug. 16, when it’ll reveal the registration process. The offer gives them full, ad-free access to the streaming service’s 45 million songs, but Verizon suggested there’s more to come from this partnership by …

The UK is reportedly concerned that technical “shortcomings” in Huawei equipment might leave the country’s telecoms networks vulnerable to cyberattack. An oversight board that analyzes the Chinese telecom’s products used in British infrastructure highlighted potential security problems with the VxWorks operating system, according to Reuters. The version of VxWorks that Huawei is using will stop getting security patches and updates …