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Alphabet’s Google Chrome browser will use HTML5 over Flash by default by the end of the year.

With LED lights and special sounds, these souped-up alarm clocks promise to make it easier to get out of bed. A review of the Philips Wake-up Light and Brookstone Tranquil Moments Pro Sleep System.

Facebook Inc. wants to give you an outlet to share the dozens of super-wide photos lying ignored in your phone’s camera roll.

Gboard, a useful new iOS keyboard from Google, has features not yet available on Android.

Instagram, the popular image-sharing social network owned by Facebook, got rid of its vintage camera logo and redesigned its mobile apps with a simpler, whiter user interface.

WhatsApp, the massively popular smartphone messaging app owned by Facebook, released apps for Apple’s OS X for Mac computers, and Microsoft’s Windows 8 and Windows 10 for PCs.

As Facebook defends itself against claims that workers excluded politically conservative news stories from the Trending Topics sections of its apps and website, here’s what you need to know about the controversy.

Twitter-owned app Periscope in coming weeks will let users find broadcasts by title or topic.

Microsoft Corp. is shutting down its Chinese Web portal next month as the company shifts its focus from providing online content to offering software and services for Windows 10 devices.

As the Android world awaits N, the latest version of the mobile operating system, Google released some new phone software as a sort of consolation: an all-new Android keyboard geared for one-handed typing.

Apple is offering Apple Music to college and university students at a monthly subscription price of $4.99, half as much as it costs the rest of us.

If you have a computer running Windows 7 or 8, mark July 30 on your calendar. That’s the day that upgrading your PC to Windows 10 will no longer be free.

Twitter Inc. revamped its mobile apps to provide better answers to a long-standing, often frustrating user question: Whom should I follow? A new Connect tab began rolling out this morning to users of Twitter’s Android and iOS apps.

Microsoft updated its Bing search app for iOS with a feature that lets users search for images by taking a photo or uploading an image from the camera roll.