David Murphy

Amazon's use of acoustic fingerprinting helps to tell your Echo that it should ignore whatever's being said in the background -- including 'Alexa.'

It's official: cryptocurrency investing has really gone to the dogs.

Men still dominate the keynote presentations and panels at this year's Consumer Electronics Show, but it's no longer a shutout.

Google isn't making Project Ara hardware anymore, but the device could live on if another company wants to license the technology.

If your app doesn't follow Apple's current guidelines, crashes when it loads or has a stupid-long name, expect to receive a notification from Apple soon.

Dropbox is ensuring that a batch of leaked login credentials don't affect your account security.

At two Aloft Hotels, you can change your room's temperature, lighting and music by yelling at Siri.

We don't know when it might come out, but Twitter has allegedly been working on a tool that will allow users to block any keywords (or hashtags) they want.

Still, despite potential cutbacks, Google Fiber is coming to Salt Lake City.

If you want a Tesla Model S or Model X on a two-year lease, you'll have to put up a bigger down payment (and make up your mind by Sept. 12).

According to reports, not enough people were using Lyft's carpool service to make it worthwhile.

The temporary tattoos let you interact with connected devices, possibly turning your wrist into a smartphone touchpad.

At least, that's what one computer security expert did in order to access classier airport lounges in Europe.

Though the country has officially banned Pokémon Go, we wonder what will happen if eager gamers find some way to grab the installation file anyway.

Everyone in Silicon Valley borrows and iterates. Instagram CEO Kevin Systrom doesn't mind acknowledging that Snapchats' 'Stories' came first.

If a company is paying you to shill a product on social media, you better do more than write a little #ad hashtag at the very end of your post.

The rap mogul has taken to Twitter to convince Apple to acquire music streaming service Tidal.

Most sounds, you don't need to hear; some sounds, you need to hear, and Amazon's patent describes smarter headphones that could flip noise cancelling on and off depending on what's around you.

You'll soon be able to block comments by keywords or disable comments entirely for specific Instagram posts.

Uber is rethinking its reliance on Google Maps.

Parents have a lot of worries when it comes to their kids. Will little Timmy make it into a top college? Will Jamie make the team? Will you ever get a refund for the $3,000 your smaller child blew on in-app purchases using your smartphone or tablet?

Is this popular game already on the decline in the United States? Probably.

Congress wants to know if Niantic is ensuring that Pokemon Go players don't burn through their data.

Emoji should be open to all genders, nationalities and races, right?

'Each of our search partnerships is the result of a competitive process reflective of the value that Firefox brings to the ecosystem. The Yahoo relationship is no different.'

Spotify will have to stop trying to circumvent in-app purchases if it wants its updates to make it through the App Store review process.

Upfront fares are currently rolling out to an number of U.S. cities, though Uber didn't detail a timeline for how long it would take all riders to benefit from the new tweak.

It's no small secret that Nest is struggling a bit. The startup was acquired by Google in 2014 for $3.2 billion, but its sales have not been blowing up as much as Google had likely hoped they might.

The not-from Zuckerberg tweet on his timeline suggests that the Facebook CEO's password was simply 'dadada,' and it told anyone reading to simply direct message the account to obtain additional proof of the hack.

To start a business, you have to have an idea. And while ideas are easy to come by, ideas that translate into a new, successful business model can be a bit trickier.