Amazon is keeping up its effort to attract more low-income customers to its Prime membership program. The e-commerce giant said Tuesday it cut the price for a Prime subscription to $5.99 a month for people with an Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) card. These cards are used to disburse funds for food assistance and other government-aid programs. At that …

This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. Now playing: Watch this: Apple Pay lets you send money to friends and family 1:23 Soon you’ll be able to pay your friend for that ski trip using Apple Pay. Apple on Monday showed off a new person-to-person payment system. The new service …

In its annual “year in live events” reports, StubHub likes to offer fun bits of trivia gleaned from its troves of ticket-sales data. Who had the top-performing US tour last year? Adele, naturally. What about the highest-selling, single-day music event of 2016? That would be Springsteen on March 28 at MSG. Those are clever party tricks, but the world’s largest …

Crowdsourced delivery is so 2016. Walmart just created something called “associate delivery.” For the past few years, a slew of tech titans and startups have been developing crowdsourced shipping services, with Amazon, Uber, Postmates, Deliv and others paying regular folks to deliver packages or food to customers’ doors. Walmart may have one-upped them. The company on Thursday said that it …

Facebook is expanding its personal fundraisers tool into two new areas: community and sports. Since March, the social network has been testing the fundraiser tool, which helps people raise money from friends and family on Facebook. The categories people can select for their fundraisers now include education, medical, pet medical, crisis relief, personal emergency, funeral and loss, sports, and community. …

Social media is ubiquitous for young people, but all that interaction may be creating some negative side effects. The Royal Society for Public Health along with the Young Health Movement published a report out of the UK called #StatusOfMind that looked into the mental health effects of five social networks, CBS News reported Tuesday. The researchers found that Instagram was …

Google’s I/O developer conference last week shows just how far ahead the search company is against Apple when it comes to lots of areas in tech, including digital assistants, smart home and virtual reality. At least that’s the argument of CNET mobile reviewer Jessica Dolcourt. On today’s episode, we debate who’s ahead in the Apple-Google rivalry, especially with Apple’s own …

Netflix is keeping up its push into Europe, saying Thursday it will hire 400 more people in Amsterdam for its new European customer service hub. The company is using its Amsterdam office as its new headquarters for an expansion into Europe, the Middle East and Africa. This expansion is critical for Netflix to maintain its growth because its expansion in …

Net neutrality became the law of the land in early 2015. Two years later, it looks like those laws are about to go away. CNET’s own Maggie Reardon interviewed Ajit Pai, the new Federal Communications Commission chairman, on his views about the regulations and what he hopes to change. Also on this podcast, we talk about Andy Rubin, the father …

We probably won’t see the next Google Pixel phone for several months, but that hasn’t stopped CNET from offering up a wish list for the upcoming device. Two big improvements we like to see for the Pixel 2, or whatever it gets called, are a better design with less bezel and waterproofing. Those two changes would go a long way …