Gadget News

We're on the ground in Seattle and waiting for Microsoft's second Build 2017 keynote to kick off. It's a return to home turf for the company (or at least, very close to its Redmond headquarters), after hosting its develo...

This week details in a recently-published set of design files from Samsung suggest that the Galaxy Note 8’s backside will have two cameras. This information should not come as a surprise to those watching this space ex...

A month ago, AT&T announced it would acquire Straight Path Communications for $1.6 billion, specifically because Straight Path owns licenses to use high-frequency radio waves that will be crucial for the next generation ...

It's been 17 years since The Sims was first released on PC but finally (finally) the venerable social simulator is going mobile. EA announced on Wednesday that it is bringing its truest port of the game to date to Androi...

Spotify has been the biggest music streaming service to find a business model that users can accept, and music labels can endure. In its early days, the company positioned itself as "a viable alternative to music piracy....

It's not just proponents of net neutrality that are flocking to the FCC's website -- opponents are there as well... in a manner of speaking. Reports from ZDNet and elsewhere have revealed that one or more bots are postin...

Facebook regularly tweaks your news feed to make sure you only see "quality" posts and ads. It's banned fake news sites from using the Facebook ad network, added an easy way to report false news posts, and has even hired...

The Xperia L1 phone Sony introduced back in March is now available to purchase in the U.S., giving buyers a new option in the budget-friendly category. This handset brings the same Xperia aesthetics we’ve seen on the m...

During the 2016 NFL season, Twitter streamed the league's slate of Thursday Night Football matchups. The 2017 season will be a lot different for the social network as it lost those weekly livestreams to Amazon last month...

Encryption is the key to our digital privacy. It keeps eavesdroppers from reading your private conversations and checking out which sites you're visiting. It's important enough that iOS and Android will encrypt your enti...

We are smack dab in the middle of TV pick-up season, what with Syfy's just-announced round of shows and Fox's The Gifted getting its first teaser trailer, so it's only natural that Crow T. Robot and Tom Servo from Netfli...

When you buy a ticket to a concert or sports event, you want to make sure your view is a good one. The days of peering at a line drawing of a venue's seating plan to figure that out could soon be a thing of the past. Tic...

Montblanc has launched its previously unveiled Summit smartwatch, a classy Android Wear offering that, at first glance, looks like any other traditional timepiece. The company is offering Summit in more than a dozen styl...

Google's Allo chat program is still missing some basic features, but hey, you're a fan of Bitmoji right? That's the line of thinking for the app's latest add-on: personalized emojis, made from your face. Unlike Snapchat'...

We’ve known that this day was coming since before the console’s launch, but now it’s finally here: Minecraft launches on the Nintendo Switch later today. Minecraft is perhaps the biggest indie release coming to the...

Today, Trump finally signed an executive order for an extensive review of the US government's cybersecurity, which has been some months coming. He was originally set to sign an earlier version back in January, but postpo...

When it comes to bringing around a laptop these days, many users would love to have something that is slim and lightweight, and yet powerful enough to be able to handle all that one needs in order to be productive. Acer ...

The Samsung Dex is a tiny new smartphone dock that wades carefully toward a world in which smartphones serve as our primary computers. It's about the size of a hockey puck, and when the Galaxy S8, a monitor, and a Blueto...

Bikers interested in going green have reason to rejoice today. Harley-Davidson has already shown off its prototype Livewire electric bike, and it's promised to offer you a real one in the next five years. Today, the moto...

Twitter and the NFL have a history together, one that used to provide Twitter users with live streaming NFL games for free. The two entities have announced yet another partnership, one that will revolve around a live sho...

Mike Pelletier's short film Still Life looks nothing like the classical paintings of bowls of fruit and flowers you'll find in a stuffy art gallery. Using hyper-realistic computer animation, Pelletier's film instead feat...

It was a big day for Microsoft's personal-computing aspirations. During its Build keynote today in Seattle, the company announced a new pair of mixed reality controllers and support for three separate Linux builds as wel...