Andy Rubin said Wednesday that his new startup’s anticipated Essential Phone is now “in full mass production” and he plans to announce next week when the $699 device will become available. The phone’s launch is delayed after Rubin, the creator of Google’s Android, first promised a June release. So, to prove that Essential’s first product is in …

The upcoming 10th anniversary iPhone is expected to be impressive — but also pricey.  With that device rumored to reach well above $1,000, CNET delved into some cheaper alternatives, including the Moto E4 and Moto G5 Plus. We also weighed in on the highly anticipated Tesla Model 3 launch this past Friday, and match it against the Chevy Bolt. The …

History has repeated itself for Amazon. Following a series of strong quarterly results, the company has yet again shrugged off Wall Street’s expectations and posted an unexpectedly low profit. The clear culprit was — yet again — Amazon’s penchant for shoveling billions more dollars into its businesses to amp up their growth. In its earnings report Thursday, the company said …

We are on the cusp of phone-launch season, with flagships from Samsung, Apple, Google and others expected.  With that in mind, we invited CNET mobile reviewer Scott Stein on today’s show to talk about his visit to the Motorola Z2 Force launch event and his expectations for the Samsung Galaxy Note 8 reveal next month. The 3:59 gives you bite-size …

Soon, eBay will let you shop on its app by snapping pictures. The e-commerce company on Wednesday said it’s developing two new image recognition tools for its mobile app. They’ll only be available in the US and are set for release this fall, with a desktop version arriving later. The first feature, simply called Image Search, will let you take …

Amazon introduced on Wednesday a new payments feature that will let people use its mobile app to buy stuff in stores and restaurants. For now, Amazon Pay Places is only available for pickup orders at T.G.I. Fridays restaurants in Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington D.C., Richmond, Va. and Wilkes-Barre, Pa. (Here’s the menu, if you’re feeling peckish.) But, if Pay Places …

Amazon‘s Prime Day again proved to be a huge success. The exclusive sale for Prime members, held on Tuesday, broke the e-commerce titan’s single-day sales record for the second year in a row. Amazon said Wednesday that overall sales grew by 60 percent from a year earlier and that more new members joined Prime than on any other day in …

Roku has to compete with three of the world’s biggest tech companies to sell its streaming boxes. But it doesn’t appear to be struggling to keep up.  The Los Gatos, Calif.-based company on Wednesday said it hit 15 million monthly active accounts at the end of June, up 43 percent from the year earlier. Also, users streamed nearly 7 billion …

Pokemon Go may not be the worldwide sensation it once was, but it’s still a hugely popular mobile game. One year after its launch, we look back at what Pokemon Go influenced and some of our favorite memories from the game. We also discuss the development of robots to help the elderly and diagnose diseases, and plug CNET’s new iHate package, which …

Conversations with robots are still pretty crummy. Anyone who’s had to bark at Alexa three times to turn off the lights knows this irritation quite well. Now a new study from Adobe, released Thursday, provides some insights into how much folks use voice assistants and how much they like — and dislike — them. In all, 37 percent of people …