Why GM is Slashing the Price of its In-Car Wireless Data Plans and other top stories.

• Why GM is Slashing the Price of its In-Car Wireless Data Plans

  

  General Motors has cut the price of its wireless data plans in half, giving the automaker a competitive advantage over an industry trying to use in-car Internet connectivity to attract customers. The 1GB package, once $20 a month, is now $10. Its 10GB package, which was $80 a month, is now $40. The company is also offering a new 4GB plan for $20. Since 2014, most GM @general gm vehicles have been equipped with 4G LTE Internet connections, the same kind of wireless service as the latest A..

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• Facebook's Political Influence Under a Microscope

  

  As the U.S. presidential campaign heats up, Facebook is going out of its way to show its neutrality - an increasingly urgent matter for the social network as evidence of its power continues to emerge. Recent studies have shown the site has extraordinary influence. According to research scheduled to be published in August in the Journal of Communication, when people tagged their friends on Facebook in voting reminders, turnout increased by 15 to 24 percent. The sun rises behind the en..

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• Toyota Recalls 1.4 Million Vehicles for Airbag Problem

  

  Photo A Toyota factory in Takaoka, Japan. The automaker also said on Wednesday that it was recalling nearly three million vehicles worldwide over fuel tank issues. Credit Ko Sasaki for The New York Times Public concern about faulty automobile airbags spread to a second major supplier on Wednesday, after Toyota recalled 1.43 million Prius and Lexus models equipped with bags made by Autoliv, a big Swedish-American manufacturer.Although no injuries have been reported from ..

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• Apple's new patent will block your iPhone from recording video at gigs

  

  US Patent and Trademark Office If you're sick of having your view of Adele obscured by a thousand iPhones trying to film her, things are looking up. Apple has patented a system designed to force your iPhone into disabling video recording functions and it's designed for use in concert venues.The system, The Guardian reports, uses infrared signals to send messages to your phone to tell it to shut down video record..

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• VLC Media Player Arrives on Windows 10

  

  The wait for a Windows 10 app is over, VLC media player users. VideoLAN on Wednesday released a beta VLC for Windows 10 app, following a long development period and "a lot of issues," the team announced. The new Windows 10 app has all the features you already know and love from the iOS and Android versions of VLC, plus a few extra goodies. "Like the classic VLC, it supports a very large number of formats," according to VideoLAN President Jean-Baptiste Kempf. It also boasts a media library with v..

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• Nvidia's Shield Android TV streaming box gets Netflix in HDR, plus a lot more

  

  While a lot of people in the market for a streaming box opt for a Roku, Apple TV, or Amazon Fire TV device, they are far from the only options available. Nvidia’s Shield Android TV box might not be well-known, but compared to a lot of other streaming boxes, it is positively feature-packed. And with its most recent software update, it just got even better. The software update brings a ton of features, but the most impressive is the ability to stream HDR video from Netflix. While a relatively sma..

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• HTC's Vive business is now run by a new subsidiary

  

  Earlier reports indicated the move was possible, but HTC confirmed the reorganization to The Verge today. The company's brief, one-sentence statement:HTC can confirm that it has established a wholly-owned subsidiary, HTC Vive Tech Corporation, as a vehicle for developing strategic alliances to help build the global VR ecosystem.While the shuffle doesn't change much in the near term -- and Vive is still completely under HTC's larger umbrella -- the shift does give the Vive group some extra prote..

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• Google's giant new trans-Pacific internet cable goes online Thursday

  

  A new undersea internet cable funded in part by Google and connecting Japan with the US is slated to go online starting June 30th. The joint announcement, made today in a press release from NEC Corporation, says construction and testing on the trans-pacific cable, dubbed "Faster," was successfully completed and the system is now ready for service. The whole line runs 9,000 kilometers and stretches from Oregon to Chiba and Mie prefectures in Japan. Though it lands in three distinct locations, Fa..

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• Note-Taking App 'Google Keep' Gains Intelligent Organization Feature

  

  Google has announced a smart new organizational feature for its note-taking and to-do list app, Google Keep. The app can now intelligently categorize users' notes by topic, such as food, books, and travel, and entries can be searched by keyword using topic shortcuts which appear in the search bar. Google Keep, which also offers a web interface, includes other features like list support, label and color organization tools, note reminders based on time or place, voice memos with automatic ..

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