Tech Tip: Customizing Android Contacts With Photos You can replace those generic image placeholders next to names in your Android address book with the photos of your choice.
Verizon and AwesomenessTV to Form Mobile Video Service The telecommunications giant will acquire a 24.5 percent stake in the digital entertainment network for teenagers.
Bitcoin Start-Up Gets an Electronic Money License in Britain Britain’s top financial regulator has granted a license to Circle, a company based in Boston that will work with Barclays, the British bank.
F.B.I. Lawyer Won’t Say if Data From Unlocked iPhone Is Useful James A. Baker, the F.B.I.’s general counsel, said the bureau was still working on putting the extracted data to use.
Gay Rights Battle Heats Up in Mississippi and North Carolina The Mississippi governor signed a bill protecting discrimination against gay people. PayPal pulled out of North Carolina over a similar measure.
Books of The Times: Review: ‘Disrupted,’ a Tech Takedown by Dan Lyons, a.k.a. Fake Steve Jobs The blogger behind “The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs” lost his Newsweek job and tried a start-up. The result of his adventure: a coolly observant book.
WhatsApp Messaging Service Introduces Full Encryption End-to-end encryption will be applied to photos, videos and group text messages sent among people in more than 50 languages.
Bits: HTC Vive Is Latest Virtual Reality Product in a Growing Market A flood of virtual reality products are now becoming available but the technology still has a long way to go.
Tech Tip: Clearing Space on the Apple TV The newest Apple set-top boxes come with storage space for the programs you download, but you can delete those added apps if space gets tight.
Tech Fix: Virtual Reality Check: Rating the HTC Vive and the Oculus Rift A comparison of the virtual reality systems looks at what each includes, the computers and accessories needed, and the apps and games available.
N.F.L. Will Stream Thursday Games on Twitter Eager to reach the growing number of younger fans without televisions, the N.F.L. will broadcast 10 Thursday night regular-season games over the Internet.
With a Stand-Alone App, Starz Looks Beyond the Cable Bundle Starz is the latest premium TV network to introduce an app that bypasses cable packages and lets viewers stream television shows and movies directly.
Misconceptions: You Could Actually Snooze Your Way Through an Asteroid Belt A crucial tension-creating plot point in many a movie and video game is based on a nonsensical premise.
Raw Data: To Beat Go Champion, Google’s Program Needed a Human Army Without the multitude of minds that created a program capable of beating a Go game master, the contest would have been a no-go.
Bits: China Moves Into Position to Develop Self-Driving Cars Gansha Wu, a veteran engineering manager at Intel, has jumped into the autonomous car industry in China, with a start-up called Uisee Technology.
Tech Tip: Adding Links to the Windows 10 Start Menu If you miss some of the handy shortcuts from earlier versions of Windows, you can easily add them.
Michael C. Fina, Park Avenue Wedding Retailer, Bets on Amazon.com The luxury retailer known for wedding registry finery plans to close its sole brick-and-mortar store in Manhattan on April 16.
Drones Marshaled to Drop Lifesaving Supplies Over Rwandan Terrain Zipline, based in California, raises $18 million and partners with the small African country to shuttle packages of blood and emergency medicine.
Website Seeks to Make Government Data Easier to View and Understand Data USA, a project by the M.I.T. Media Lab and Deloitte, is free to use and its software code is open source, so that developers can build custom applications.
White House Letter: Technology Upgrades Get White House Out of the 20th Century As President Obama prepares to leave the White House, one of his legacies will be the office information technology upgrade that his staff has finally begun.
China’s Companies Poised to Take Leap in Developing a Driverless Car Conditions for the technology may actually be more favorable in China than in the United States because of aggressive support from the government.
Outshone by Smaller Screens, PCs Aim to Be Seen as Cool Again With the onslaught of smartphones and tablets, even people who depend on PCs now lack passion for these onetime miracle products.
Mike and John on Annotation Terror and Annoying Video Alerts Some discussion of an app that can post criticism of one’s work and of Facebook’s new live video push and how users are pushing back.
Orange and Bouygues Telecom Call Off Takeover Talks The deal would have consolidated the French telecom market, but both sides failed to agree on terms for the proposed $11.4 billion deal.
Facebook Live, Annoying and Intrusive, Seems to Be Paying Off The service’s new live video notifications are suddenly outstripping the regular news feed and zapping maybe millions of extra pockets.
Managed by Q, an On-Demand Start-Up, Raises $25 Million The investors GV, formerly Google Ventures, and Kapor Capital provided the financing for the office cleaning and management company.
Tech Start-Ups Choose to Stay Private in I.P.O. Standoff For only the fourth time since the early 1990s, there were no tech company I.P.O.s in a quarter.
Slack, a Leading Unicorn, Raises $200 Million in New Financing The round, which brings Slack’s venture financing to $540 million, was led by the new investors Thrive Capital with participation from GGV and Comcast Ventures.
BlackBerry Reports Annual Loss, Despite Rise in Software Revenue Annual revenue for the smartphone maker declined by a third to $2.16 billion, and its net loss also fell by a similar ratio, to $208 million.
Bits: Using Tech to Revive the Textile Industry For apparel makers, figuring out ways to create “smart garments” and other connected cloths is an important way to create future jobs.
Tech Tip: Moving CD-Ripped Music From the Computer to the iPad Even if you did not download the music to your iOS device from the iTunes store, you can still take it along on your mobile gadget.
April Fools’ Undo: Gmail Removes Its ‘Mic Drop’ Feature Gmail users kept accidentally sending photos of Minions, the yellow creatures from “Despicable Me,” to important business contacts. They were not pleased.
Goldman’s Tech Chief Pushes the Bank to Be More Open, Like Him Goldman Sachs is trying to change its guarded culture and be thought of as a tech company. No one is more central to this effort than Martin Chavez.
Opinion: The Tampon of the Future When you say you’re going to build a company around menstrual blood, people think you’re joking.
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