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A major step was taken Thursday in the U.S. government’s plan to hand off oversight of the Internet domain name system.   A nonprofit international group approved a plan and forwarded [...] read more...

Although the consumer implications of the Internet of Things have generated plenty of public attention, the real growth in the embryonic IoT market is coming from less visible industrial [...] read more...

Mozilla may have given up on battling Android and iOS to find a firm position in the smartphone operating system market, but the company is affirming its growing interest in capturing a pie of [...] read more...

Google has quietly pushed out a new feature to its Google Now on Tap service – optical character recognition (OCR). The search giant additionally rolled out a small but useful feature in an [...] read more...

Google is testing a new feature on Android that lets users install apps from its search engine results without being routed through the Play Store, according to Android Police. The feature, which [...] read more...

There’s good news and bad news for Karma hotspot users. The good: Karma is restoring 5 Mbps download and upload speeds on its $50 unlimited data plan, after slowing things down a few weeks [...] read more...

Over the last few months, we’ve seen a stream of anti-encryption rhetoric from variousvoices in New York State. Now, a formal bill has been put before the New York State Assembly, which would [...] read more...

Intel has disclosed that its sixth-generation Core products (known as Skylake) suffer from a CPU bug that can cause a system to hang. The company has only publicly identified one application [...] read more...

Android has had a number of security scares over the years, but the Stagefright bug that was made public over the summer spurred Mountain View to action like never before. Patches have already [...] read more...

Ever since the iPhone launched, it’s used a Qualcomm modem. Even after Apple began fielding its own custom CPU cores, the Cupertino company relied on Qualcomm for its cellular baseband. Intel [...] read more...