Today’s Google doodle pays homage to the Chinese linguist Zhou Youguang on what would have been his 112th birthday. Youguang helped create the Chinese phonetic alphabet called Pinyin. He spent three years developing the system of ‘spelled sounds’ that led to the international standard for Romanized Chinese — earning Youguang …

Women in black abayas and fluorescent orange vests stood at the gates at King Abdullah Stadium, welcoming people into the family section that, for the first time in Saudi Arabia, allowed women to attend a men’s soccer match. Saudi women watch the soccer match between Al-Ahli against Al-Batin at the …

A team of former Tinder employees, led by Tinder’s original CTO Ryan Ogle, are today launching a new app aimed at professional networking. The app, called Ripple, aims to be a sort of mobile-first alternative to LinkedIn that addresses some of the problems common to the aging, now Microsoft-owned business …

These Healthy Chocolate Coconut Granola Clusters are bite-sized flavor bombs that won’t crumble and fall apart like regular granola.  So enjoy your granola, MESS FREE!  I love this suuuper easy recipe because it’s no bake, sugar free, high protein, gluten free, dairy free, and vegan.  Plus, it has ZERO added …

For years now, the phone industry has pursued a strategy of pushing regular yearly updates to device families. While this keeps new phones in the hands of the upgrade-obsessed, it doesn’t align particularly well with how people upgrade devices. In the old contract world, most people bought every two years, …

The last six months haven’t been particularly kind to Apple. The company’s decision to throttle its phones to preserve battery life without ever telling users it did so. Now it’s under fire for allegedly false claims about the standby time and overall power consumption of its MacBook Pros. And, as …

The PC market has been sliding for the better part of a decade now. Quarter after quarter, people buy fewer traditional PCs and more mobile devices. Now, despite predictions of yet another drop, the PC market has reportedly grown for the first time in six years. The new report from …

Security researchers have pinpointed another major security hole in Intel processors, in addition to the security holes in the Intel Management Engine and the Meltdown flaw that hits Intel CPUs uniquely hard. This time, it’s an issue with Intel’s Active Management Technology (AMT), a feature typically reserved for systems that …

LAS VEGAS — Once again the marathon that is CES is drawing to a close. Four days of trade show plus two days of media events. All sprawled across five miles of Las Vegas in some insane number of hotels and conference venues. As usual, I stuck it out so …

The Consumer Electronics Show (CES), if you’ve never seen it, is a frantic grab-bag of aching feet, glitzy product demos, hotel and conference center meetings, and a handful of major keynotes and presentations. For every breakthrough product, there’s a score of cheap imitations and bad ideas. But every now and …