


Adblock Plus is now 5 times faster at recognizing ads, uses 60% less CPU

Opinion
ProBeat: Fitbit’s lineup needs to get fit

Microsoft integrates Yammer into Teams

Fitbit kills Alta, Alta HR, Flex 2, and Zip

W3C approves WebAuthn as the web standard for password-free logins

Opinion
ProBeat: Amazon’s Dash Buttons were dumb

Google has helped 300,000 Android developers fix security vulnerabilities in over 1 million apps

D-Wave previews quantum computing platform with over 5,000 qubits

Exclusive
Dry.io wants to democratize software development using AI

Opinion
ProBeat: The year OnePlus started ignoring fans

IDC: Tablet shipments decline for 16th straight quarter

IDC: Smartphone shipments down 6% in Q3 2018, Huawei maintains lead over Apple

Android Pie has a battery life problem

Opinion
ProBeat: Google’s duplicated services will break your heart

Microsoft says Windows 10 preview now has 1.5M testers, 30% use it daily

Windows App Studio gets TouchDevelop programming language and web app templates, drops Windows Phone 8.0

Google Drive gets Gmail attachment support, Google voice search on Android, uploading from other apps on iOS

Gmail gets Content Security Policy support to stop extensions from loading unsafe code

Google and Verizon cross-license patents to ‘reduce the risk’ of future litigation

Google’s top searches of 2014: Robin Williams, World Cup, and Ebola

The Pirate Bay isn’t coming back anytime soon

Skype Translator preview kicks off with English and Spanish spoken language support

Google Analytics will drop IE9 support on January 31

This is the best ‘All About That Bass’ parody, from NASA

BlackBerry updates BBM with support for Android Lollipop, iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus screens, new iOS 8 look

Microsoft to hold Windows 10 ‘consumer experience’ event in Redmond on January 21

Facebook launches 7 call-to-action buttons for Pages

Dropbox launches Microsoft Office collaboration features for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint on Windows and Mac

Google revamps its iOS app with Material Design, one-tap search, built-in Maps, and recently visited pages

Google Maps gets high-resolution 3D imagery for New York and San Francisco, coming to more cities in 2015

YouTube for Android revamped with Material Design, finally gets search filtering

Google updates Android Wear with watch faces available on Google Play, launches Watch Face API

Facebook launches Trending Topics on mobile

Google Hangouts for Android gets ‘last seen’ timestamps, smart location sharing, and video filters

Glassdoor: Google dethrones Twitter as the best tech company to work for in the U.S., also tops new U.K. list

Lenovo recalls 544K laptop power cords over fire and burn hazards

Microsoft will disable fallback to SSL 3.0 in IE11 on February 10, still has no date for complete SSL 3.0 removal

Google mobile search is now 100-150 milliseconds faster, but only in Chrome for Android
