Author: Rob Pegoraro, Special for USA TODAY

Like Apple’s Safari, Firefox’s tracking prevention stops ad networks from identifying your browser with cookies that follow you across the internet.

Facebook gets more heat as conference speakers take it to task for its vast influence and inability to address such persistent problems as fake users.

A phone number can mean much more when it’s stored on Facebook’s servers– even if you only provided it to help secure your account.

Elizabeth Warren talked about her plan to bust up Facebook, Apple and Google. Others questioned her idea, nobody suggested remaining totally hands off.

What’s worse than carrying an adapter to use your old wired headphones with a new phone or tablet?

If that dongle turns out to only be decorative.

One of the bigger developments in TV tech at CES, 8K televisions, shows the downside of focusing on what you can build instead of what you should.

Android users now have two new ways to read and write their text messages on their larger screens — one from Google and the other from Microsoft.

For those living between device ecosystems — like iOS and Android or Mac and Microsoft, the question of which cloud service to use can be complicated.

You can use this family tech-support time to dampen Facebook’s demands on your relatives’ time and data.