Sony may have decided to skip the video game industry’s largest annual expo this year, but Microsoft plans to be back at E3 2019 with its usual blow-out press conference.

Laura Loomer protested at the Twitter building in New York a second time.

Verizon has launched a mystery box service that delivers gadgets to customers’ homes, lets them try the gadgets for two weeks, and then charges them for what they choose not to return.

Numerous companies have pulled their ads from the platform.

YouTube has removed ads from videos that promote anti-vaccination content, citing a ban on “dangerous and harmful” material.

Verizon is asking the Federal Communications Commission to let it keep new smartphones locked to its network for 60 days, as part of an initiative to prevent identity theft and fraud.

Twitter co-founder Evan Williams, who’s currently CEO of publishing platform Medium, is stepping down from Twitter’s board, according to a new filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

YouTube says it’s not asking creators to moderate their comments or face ad restrictions, clarifying a message that has worried some of the site’s members.

Massachusetts-based biotech firm Thermo Fisher says it will stop selling equipment to Xinjiang, the province where Chinese authorities have launched a statewide campaign to monitor and track Uighurs.

In a letter addressed to top executives, a group of Microsoft workers is demanding the company drop a controversial contract with the United States Army.

Samsung’s Galaxy S10 5G was the final announcement at the company’s big Unpacked event — a phone promising mobile internet speeds dramatically faster than today’s LTE networks.

The Canadian government is withholding the remainder of its $18. 3 million (CAD$24 million) investment into North after The Verge reported that the company laid off 150 employees this week.

Samsung officially announced several new wearables this week, but it’s the Galaxy Watch Active, the company’s newest smartwatch, that stands out from the pack.

Elon Musk’s appearance on Felix “PewDiePie” Kjellberg’s “Meme Review,” a popular series on Kjellberg’s channel where he provides commentary on memes, gave Tesla’s CEO a chance to address one of his most important customer bases directly: YouTube.

For a person that doesn’t actually work for Google, I spend an inordinate amount of time hyping up the Google Pixel’s camera.

Mobile World Congress hasn’t kicked off yet, but an early leak of a banner by Twitter user @gimme2pm may have blown one of the biggest announcements: the foldable Huawei Mate X that the company will presumably announce at this year’s show, via 9to5Google.

Yesterday, responsible tech journalists across the web did an important job: they warned readers that it might be a little bit premature to spend $1,980 on a completely unproven, entirely new category of phone-computer.

Facebook is getting ahold of sensitive personal information that smartphone owners submit to entirely separate mobile apps, thanks to a software tool that immediately shares that data with the social network to improve ad targeting, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal.

Apple is planning to shut down its two stores in the Eastern District of Texas in order to avoid patent troll lawsuits, according to a new report from MacRumors.

The Federal Trade Commission is planning to hold a public workshop later this year to analyze the video game industry’s sale of loot boxes, according to an agency letter obtained by The Verge.

North Labs, the company behind the Focals smart glasses, laid off 150 employees yesterday.

We’re living in a funny sort of ultra-connected time where no consumer tech company can keep its secrets secret.

Samsung’s Gear VR is one of the most popular virtual reality headsets, but recently, its future has seemed uncertain.

Two-factor authentication is a good way to add an extra layer of security to online accounts.

Kim Kardashian West, celebrity, model, and makeup mogul, is suing Missguided, a fast fashion company, saying that the company’s Instagram tags and posts rely on her likeness to sell clothes.

Just over a year ago, I reviewed a cool little computer called the Eve V.

Our faster, more flexible mobile future is about to be revealed.

In the next few days, the world’s tech press will descend on Barcelona for Mobile World Congress, the world’s largest mobile technology event.

Nvidia is introducing a new affordable graphics card as part of the company’s GTX line today.

Keep your virtual life secure with a physical key.

Cameras pointed at passengers have been noticed in the inflight entertainment systems used by some American Airlines and Singapore Airlines aircraft, BuzzFeed News reports.

BMW and Daimler, two giants in the automobile sector, are pooling their resources in a joint mobility effort that spans autonomous cars, ride-hailing, electric scooters, car-sharing, and electric car charging.

Sony is expected to unveil a new lineup of smartphones at Mobile World Congress on Monday, February 25th.

Facebook is shutting down its controversial Onavo VPN app, and will end its practice of conducting unpaid market research programs, TechCrunch reports.

For those who have chosen not to pay hundreds a year for cable networks, but still subscribe to Spectrum for internet, Spectrum has a deal for you.

The Bixby button saga has been an ongoing blemish on an otherwise sterling smartphone record for Samsung since the release of the Galaxy S8 nearly two years ago.

Electric vehicle startup Lucid Motors has begun working on an SUV, and it could unveil the design as early as this summer, according to two people familiar with the company’s plans.

After showing it off at last year’s Photokina, Ricoh has announced release details for its long-awaited GRIII compact camera.

Google announced today that it will end forced arbitration for its employees, after workers at the company criticized the policy.

Corsair just launched the first RAM sticks featuring a new LED technology that fits 100 lights in the space where there were once just four.

The Samsung Galaxy S10 is now official, and if you preorder either the standard S10 or the bigger, more expensive S10 Plus before Friday, March 8th, you’ll get a free set of the company’s new Galaxy Buds.

AT&T has pulled all advertising from YouTube while the streaming service deals with issues regarding predatory comments being left on videos of children, according to CNBC.

Apple has drawn a blueprint of its own foldable smartphone in a patent application published last week.

YouTube is “aggressively approaching” a solution to its recent child exploitation controversy by clamping down on monetization, increasing moderation, and addressing recommendation search issues.

Nike says that a fix is in the works for its broken Adapt BB smart sneakers, days after an Android update rendered some of them unusable.

Showtime has announced it has hired Black Mirror and Robin Hood director Otto Bathurst to direct and produce its forthcoming live-action TV show adapting the popular video game franchise Halo.

Bay Area police pulled over a California privacy advocate and held him at gunpoint after a license plate reader error, a lawsuit alleges.

Samsung has introduced its new lineup of Galaxy S10 phones with all the razzle-dazzle that can be expected from a major manufacturer.

Samsung’s new Galaxy Watch Active is now available for preorder, and those who place an order for the $199.

Samsung’s Galaxy S10 is one of the first non-Pixel or Android One phones to get Google’s Digital Wellbeing feature, as spotted by XDA Developers.

Verizon finally offered some details about its 5G launch this morning: it plans to deploy the next-gen wireless technology in 30 cities by the end of 2019.

Samsung has made a tradition of releasing two flagship Galaxy S smartphones simultaneously each year, but in 2019, we’re getting three: the Galaxy S10, S10 Plus, and S10E.

A recent decision by research lab OpenAI to limit the release of a new algorithm has caused controversy in the AI community.

5G may be one of the biggest internet buzzwords around, but Donald Trump is already over it.

Wi-Fi is about to get faster. That’s great news: faster internet is constantly in demand, especially as we consume more bandwidth-demanding apps, games, and videos with our laptops and phones.

YouTube has terminated more than 400 channels and deleted tens of millions of comments in response to concerns from creators, users, and advertisers over videos being used to exploit children.

Apple and Goldman Sachs are gearing up to launch a joint credit card later this year, a report from The Wall Street Journal claims.

Samsung’s Galaxy S10 lineup has a lot going for it, with an attractive new design and the company’s best software yet.

HTC has announced the Vive Focus Plus, a new version of its Vive Focus standalone headset that includes a pair of its updated motion controllers, which were first announced as developer hardware back in October.

The foldable Galaxy Fold phone-tablet hybrid is Samsung’s Google Glass: an exciting technical showcase that is hitting the market far too soon and risks souring everyone on the entire nascent category.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg will finally meet with a representative of the UK government after a UK parliamentary report this week excoriated the social media site for behaving like “digital gangsters.

WinRAR has patched a 19-year-old security vulnerability that allowed attackers to extract malicious software to anywhere on your hard drive.

Programming note: The Interface will be off Thursday as I finish up a project that I will share with you next week.

Microsoft is pushing its Windows Mixed Reality platform, which has so far been limited to virtual reality and HoloLens headsets, onto mobile phones.

Two years ago, Samsung’s virtual reality ambitions were big enough to produce a bizarre, award-winning commercial featuring an ostrich who learns to fly, thanks to a Gear VR headset and the music of Elton John.

Along with the new $899 Samsung Galaxy S10 and $999 Galaxy S10 Plus, Samsung is introducing a slightly more budget-friendly phone: the Galaxy S10E.

The Galaxy Fold was the most exciting announcement at Samsung’s Galaxy Unpacked event by a long shot.

Samsung’s very fancy foldable phone, the Galaxy Fold, will be available on two carriers when it launches in the US in a couple months: AT&T and T-Mobile.

Where the Samsung Galaxy S9 phones last year felt mostly iterative, the latest S10 devices are some of the company’s biggest changes yet, with the company’s modus operandi being to win over customers that didn’t shell out for an upgrade last year.

In October, Twitter said it is redesigning conversations on the platform in an effort to encourage friendlier and more useful discussions.

Samsung made an exclusive Fortnite skin for people who buy the new Galaxy S10 Plus phone.

Samsung will allow buyers of its new Galaxy S10 smartphones to use the Bixby key to open whatever app they want.

After announcing it last summer, Samsung is nearing the release of its Bixby Home smart speaker.

Samsung just spent 90 minutes talking about its new Galaxy S10 phones that are coming out this year, including a folding model, but it also dropped information on a new smartwatch in its line of Galaxy wearables.

One of the words that’s most commonly associated with Apple’s self-driving car program is “secretive.

Disney has reportedly pulled its ads from YouTube entirely in the wake of new controversy over a series of new videos showcasing child exploitation on the site.

Samsung announces a new Galaxy S phone in the first half of every year, so while it’s no surprise that we would get an official look at the new S10 and S10 Plus devices today, the company also unveiled the Galaxy Fold, its first foldable smartphone.

Samsung’s voice assistant Bixby now knows British English, German, Italian, and Spanish from Spain.

Today Samsung announced several new Galaxy S10 flagship phones, but there’s one out of the three that stands out.

Samsung’s Galaxy S10 lineup of phones have been announced, and you’ll be able to order them starting February 21st.

Samsung officially announced multiple wearables today, including its newest smartwatch, the Galaxy Active, which it says is designed to make “pursuing wellness goals more convenient, more stylish, and more fun.

Samsung is partnering with Instagram to add a new “Instagram mode” directly to the native camera app on the newly announced Galaxy S10.

The US Environmental Protection Agency stole music from a Nintendo title to play in the background of an educational flash game, according to GameInformer.

Samsung CEO DJ Koh has announced that the company has sold over 2 billion Galaxy phones since it started selling them back in 2010, marking one of the first times that the company has ever put a number on sales for the line.

Samsung is bumping the storage up to 1TB in its new Galaxy S10 Plus.

They might not be the flashiest features, but Samsung’s new Galaxy S10 line has a subtler pair of upgrades that could meaningfully improve the experience of using them day in and out.

More speed, more screen, more battery, more cameras.

Not only is Samsung increasing the number of phones it’s releasing with the new Galaxy S10 lineup, it’s also adding more cameras to these devices than in years past.

It’s human-sized.

What does it take to beat Apple’s AirPods? Most headphone companies have landed on the idea that the answer is better performance, noise isolation, and battery life — but every time they’ve achieved that, they’ve done it at a higher price and with a much larger charging case.

Samsung will launch a top-tier model of the Galaxy S10 that offers 5G mobile data connectivity.

Samsung’s new Galaxy S10 phones feel great to hold and to use, and you can pick from a library of features to explain why that is.

Samsung first teased its foldable phone back in November, and at the company’s Galaxy Unpacked event today it’s further detailing its foldable plans.

Microsoft is making a new Office app available to Windows 10 users today.

A Florida prison inmate is suing after a switch between contractors removed prisoners’ access to millions of dollars’ worth of their own music.

YouTube creators are worried that a catastrophic drop in ad revenue may be upon them following a new controversy over YouTube’s inability to curve predatory behavior on content featuring young children.

It’s been close to a year and a half since Apple first announced AirPower, its supposedly revolutionary wireless charger that still has yet to materialize.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg says he’s “potentially interested” in putting the Facebook login on the blockchain as part of a public interview with Harvard Law professor Jonathan Zittrain.

Will we finally see more of the folding phone, too?.

Facebook is adding a new privacy control to its Android app today that allows users to prevent the social network from accessing their location when the app isn’t open.