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Verizon’s previously announced satellite messaging service is now available to owners of some Android smartphones, the company said in a statement. As The Verge reports, it comes at no extra charge to Verizon customers, though you’ll need a Google Pixel 9 or Samsung Galaxy S25 series phone to take advantage of it. The service allows people to send […]

TechCrunch has a new owner, again. Yahoo has sold the tech news site to the private equity firm Regent for an undisclosed sum, according to an announcement on Friday. Regent is the same company that snapped up Foundry, the firm behind outlets like PCWorld, Macworld, and TechAdvisor on Thursday. Founded in 2005, TechCrunch has experienced many shakeups in ownership after AOL acquired the site in […]

Google’s debuting the new $499 Pixel 9A phone, breaking from the company’s history of releasing the lower-cost Pixel A phones closer to the company’s I/O conference in May. Instead the phone’s reveal is here in March, and Google says the phone should be available for sale in April. CNET got an early look at the new phone, […]

If you are one of the millions of people who used 23andMe, your very personal DNA data may soon be transferred to another company.  As PCMag reports, the once popular DNA test kit firm filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and is looking for a buyer, and CEO Anne Wojcicki also resigned after an unsuccessful bid to take the company […]

Apple has been hit with a lawsuit for delaying, and thereby falsely advertising, Apple Intelligence features. As Axios and PCMag report, according to the lawsuit filed in the US District Court in San Jose last Wednesday, Apple advertised Apple Intelligence features for the iPhone 16 lineup despite knowing “it could not actually provide the capabilities that it was advertising.” Through its […]

Intel’s new CEO, Lip-Bu Tan, is signaling he’s ready to take bold steps to revitalize the US chipmaker’s business and reclaim its competitive edge.   “In areas where we are behind the competition, we need to take calculated risks to disrupt and leapfrog,” he wrote in a letter to employees that was made public.  As PCMag reports, the letter […]