This story is part of CES 2016. Our editors bring you complete CES 2016 coverage and scour the showroom floor for the hottest new tech gadgets around. Intel wants to power more than PCs. It wants to power drones, too. The Santa Clara, California-based chip giant said Monday it will acquire Ascending Technologies, a German …

The US Postal Service has a message for hoverboard makers: Keep those things off our airplanes. USPS is limiting shipping options for self-balancing scooters due to safety concerns after reports that some hoverboards have caught fire. “Effective immediately and until further notice, the Postal Service will ship the hoverboards only using Standard Post/Parcel Select, which travels on ground transportation, due …

You are now free to move about the cabin, as long as you’re not on a hoverboard. This holiday season’s hottest gift, and we mean literally hot, has been banned by most major US airlines. American, Delta and United said this week that hoverboards are not allowed in carry-on or checked baggage due to safety concerns about their batteries catching …

The search for the creator of cryptocurrency Bitcoin may have turned up a new lead. Two separate investigations published Tuesday, by Wired and Gizmodo, identified Australian businessman Craig Steven Wright as a key figure in the development of Bitcoin. According to both publications, Wright may have developed the digital currency with Dave Kleiman, an American computer forensics analyst who died …

Enlarge ImageCEO Mark Zuckerberg says a billion people signed in to the social network in a single day. Kim Kulish/Corbis Facebook has reached a new milestone: 1 billion people using the social network in a single day. Facebook reached the high mark on Monday, CEO Mark Zuckerberg wrote in a Facebook post on Thursday. That means roughly “1 in 7 …

Enlarge ImageThe Apple Watch is headed to more Best Buy stores. CNET The Apple Watch appears to be a hit at Best Buy. To capitalize on that demand, the electronics retailer plans to carry the smartwatch in all its stores by the end of next month. Best Buy will sell the Apple Watch in 900 stores starting September 4, CEO …

BlackBerry CEO John Chen presenting at this year’s Mobile World Congress. Sarah Tew/CNET BlackBerry may be looking to Google’s Android operating system to power an upcoming smartphone. The struggling smartphone maker could run Android on an “upcoming slider device” that will likely be released this fall, Reuters reported on Thursday, citing sources “familiar with the matter.” The smartphone would, according …

Now playing: Watch this: Microsoft announces goal of Windows 10 on 1 billion devices 0:51 Microsoft has a plan for Windows 10 to get onto all sorts of devices — a billion of them, before too long. “Within two to three years of Windows 10’s release, there will be 1 billion devices running Windows 10,” Terry Myerson, Microsoft’s vice president …

Joe Belfiore, Microsoft’s corporate vice president of the OS group, demonstrates Continuum Wednesday at Build 2015. Nate Ralph/CNET Microsoft has a lofty vision for Windows 10 — one operating system for all devices. One of the keys to making that vision a reality for smartphones is a software feature called Continuum. “With Continuum for phones, we believe any phone can …

Xiaomi is know for low-cost phones that pack high-end specs. CNET Xiaomi, the world’s third-largest smartphone maker, is serious about selling devices at or near cost to get ahead in the market. Xiaomi earned 347.5 million renminbi ($56 million) in net profit on 26.6 billion renminbi in revenue ($4.3 billion) last year, according to a disclosure made to the Shenzhen …