In an effort to protect its cable business, Comcast is wooing customers by giving them a boost in internet download speeds if they subscribe to a package that includes cable TV and internet. The move could be seen as an offensive as Comcast faces increasing threats from streaming services.

Miner One launched a new initial coin offering (ICO) campaign that sent the Space Miner One cryptocurrency mining rig to space to mine for bitcoin. Miner One expects to raise $10 million as part of its ICO to build a cryptocurrency mining center in Sweden and share the benefits with investors.

Apple is said to be working on its own mixed reality headset that combines AR and VR to compete against Oculus, Magic Leap, HTC Vive, and Microsoft HoloLens. The standalone glasses offer a wireless experience, 8K-per-eye resolution displays, a custom processor, and other top specifications slated for a 2020 release.

Business customers who refuse to switch to Microsoft's subscription-based version of its productivity suite can get all the latest features of Office 365 with Office 2019. Currently in preview, Office 2019 is available as a perpetual license for users wanting an on-premise solution.

Apple is officially leaving the Wi-Fi router business and will stop making the AirPort base stations. The company will continue to sell remaining inventory of AirPort Express, Extreme, and Time Capsule models. Unless you're sold on the Apple AirPort brand, you may want to check out a mesh router instead.

Outside of cryptocurrency, IBM's use of blockchain in jewelry manufacturing will give greater transparency to this business and help consumers choose ethically sourced gems. Consumers will soon be able to scan a QR code using their smartphone to see the origins and manufacturing of their jewelry.

Add touchscreen as another way to interact with the environment using Microsoft's HoloLens mixed reality headset. Thanks to researchers at Microsoft Research, you can overlay a virtual touchscreen onto any flat surface while using HoloLens, giving you another way to visualize information and make inputs.

Despite Apple's insistence on keeping iOS and Mac OS separate, combining the two operating systems could result in a powerful, new MacBook. Apple could bring LTE and touchscreen support from iOS to create an always-on laptop that supports touch and pen inputs, opening the doors to more computing possibilities.

Newly uncovered phone APIs found within a Windows 10 Insider Preview build could hint at Microsoft's long-rumored Surface Phone. The APIs reveal Microsoft is planning on adding voice telephony features to Windows, and the dual-screen Surface Phone could be how Microsoft intends on showcasing these new features.

Microsoft acknowledges that tech support scams are on the rise, costing unsuspecting consumers an average of $200 to $400 per incident, and there's little that Windows Defender can do to protect you. The best defense is education and knowing if you've been targeted by scammers.

Google is about to change how Chrome OS users will see and interact with notifications. In a new redesign, a change to the notification center shows that Google will merge notifications with some system quick settings in a move that mirrors Microsoft's Windows 10 Action Center.

If you're shopping for a thin and light laptop, Amazon offers significant savings on Apple's first-generation MacBook -- if you're willing to settle for an older, refurbished model. The laptop comes with its own trade-offs, but you should be warned to be prepared to live the dongle life if you're getting this!

Even though Google had removed five ad blockers from its Chrome stores for using malicious code to harvest your browsing data, the lesson is to beware of fakes! These ad blockers, combined, generated more than 20 million downloads. Just remember to only download software from authors and sources you trust.

Thanks to a $1,000 price drop, the Porsche Design Book One is an affordable competitior to Microsoft's Surface Book. It's unclear what Porsche Design's plans are for its notebook, but the huge discount could signal a refreshed model is incoming, which could deliver even better performance and battery life.

Newly discovered code reveals that Google could allow Chrome OS users to dual-boot into a secondary operating system. This potentially means that Pixelbook users could run Windows 10 in addition to Chrome OS, or Google could use the feature to allow users to test its unreleased Fuchsia OS prior to launch.

An ethical data breach hunter may have stopped the leak of personal data from 48 million people from Localblox’s unsecured locker, but the fact that this data exists creates a new headache for Facebook. Localblox claims that it used data scraped from LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook for its database.

Chrome users will have a little bit of extra protection when they surf the internet. Microsoft has brought its Windows Defender protection to Chrome as a browser extension in a bid to help users identify malicious websites and thwart phishing. Microsoft notes that Windows Defender is 99 percent effective.

Two wrongs don't make a right, and that's especially true for Cambridge Analytica, which had collected information from more than 87 million Facebook users. Now, a former employee reveals that the company has been working on its own cryptocurrency designed to sell your own personal data back to you.

Seeing ads on Facebook may be annoying, but the alternative could wind up costing you up to $168 per year. Even though Facebook hasn’t commented on its subscription plans, an analysis suggests that the feature could come as high as $14 per month, a pricey sum to pay for those of us accustomed to free.

Some 34 technology companies have signed the Cybersecurity Tech Accord, pledging to help keep the internet safe from cyberattacks and committing to not helping any government from carrying out attacks This may be the first step in creating a digital Geneva Convention, even if a few big names are missing from the list.

When you're shopping for your next laptop, don't forget to consider the venerable mouse! Even though your next notebook may come with its own touchpad, an external mouse can deliver more precise tracking, come with additional buttons for customization, and bring improved ergonomics.

A malicious site reportedly designed to extort by demanding cryptocurrency payment in exchange for not leaking a user's password has quickly shifted course. Now, the site will instead hijack a user's computer power to mine for cryptocurrency in the background.

One NYC townhouse is listed for $30 million, but if you'd rather use Bitcoin to seal the deal, you'll need to shell out the equivalent of $45 million. The seller says that the 50 percent premium is set to cover market volatility with cryptocurrency exchanges, so it's still cheaper to pay with cash.

One of the best Windows laptops is now $400 off. If you're in the market for a stylish Ultrabook, Dell's late 2017 XPS 13 delivers long battery life, along with great performance, thanks to Intel's quad-core Core i7 processor. And now, the XPS 13 is 30 percent off, bringing the price to just $899.

Reddit CEO Steve Huffman made a startling revelation that hate speech is permissible content on the site. Whether his recent admission will draw more racists hurling racial slurs to the site is yet to be seen, but protecting hate speech can result in more cases of cyberbullying and online harassment.

Facebook needs your help to secure your data and keep future elections fair. In an effort to prevent another Cambridge Analytica scandal potential meddling in elections, the newly announced Facebook Data Abuse Bounty will reward users who report any apps that maliciously collect and use data.

It’s still too early to tell if Chrome OS will replace Android on tablets, but with a new tablet mode, Chrome OS tablets will gain more touchscreen support. As Google focuses on touch, Chrome OS may not be as reliant on the keyboard and mouse for input in the future.

Better computer-generated graphics is helping self-driving cars learn to maneuver life-like roads under simulated conditions.

NVIDIA’s GPU is the single largest distributed supercomputer in the world, which is why it’s so popular with the Ethereum blockchain.

By leveraging GPUs, doctors can use machine learning and artificial intelligence to speed up disease diagnosis and create better scans of the human body.