Let’s get crafting! Minecraft Earth, Microsoft’s new augmented-reality app for iOS and Android phones, is now available in the US. The mobile game, which has been slowly rolling out to countries this fall, lets you explore, gather items, find monsters and go on adventures in an AR world on your phone. Over 10 years, we’ve …
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If you’re serious about protecting your information online, Firefox and its collection of privacy tools can guard your personal data as you browse websites. By default now, Mozilla’s Firefox web browser for Windows and MacOS will protect you from trackers that gather your browsing history, cross-site tracking cookies that follow you from site to site (and is how ads follow …
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California’s largest energy provider said it will continue cut power to customers across Northern and Central California this week because of heightened fire risk due to dry conditions and forecasts of high winds. PG&E’s planned blackouts may affect as many as 850,000 customers across 36 Northern and Central California counties. PG&E is cutting the power to avoid a repeat of …
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If you live in Apple’s world, the MacOS Photos app is a solid photographer’s companion that includes a powerful collection of image-editing tools for improving the look of photos. It can also keep your photos organized by automatically sorting your photographs by date and location, and it uses facial and object recognition to tag images for faces, objects and scenes …
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If you want to check out what gaming was like before the Internet, here’s how to get started playing one of the several thousand MS-DOS games the Internet Archive just made available. You can play for free in your browser through the digital library’s emulation system. The Internet Archive cautions that with some games, emulation may run slower than you’d …
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If you had a Yahoo account any time between 2012 and 2016, you can now take part in a class action settlement to compensate you for losses. Over several years, hackers were able to gain access to Yahoo user accounts, and steal private emails, calendars and contacts in at least three separate attacks. The breaches ranged in scope from two …
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Some have waited years for this moment, the day when Apple killed off its iTunes media app for MacOS and split the exasperating tool into individual pieces, each dedicated to a specific purpose. With the Catalina update, the iTunes grumblers get their wish, because with the new update to MacOS, Apple retires iTunes, replacing it with new Apple Music, Apple TV, Apple …
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Apple’s been busy, rolling out the new iPhone 11 and 11 Pro, iPads, its new Apple Arcade gaming service, Apple Watch Series 5 smartwatches and Apple TV Plus. And now, not missing a step, it’s released Catalina, the latest version of the MacOS. Read our in-depth review of MacOS Catalina before you decide whether to update or wait. Now playing: Watch …
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This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. Your MacBook, iMac or — lucky you — beastly Mac Pro just got a big boost, because MacOS Catalina is now available from Apple. With the Mac update, Apple replaces the iTunes app with three separate apps: Apple Music, Apple Podcasts and Apple TV. …
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This story is part of CNET’s coverage of Apple Arcade, including exclusive first looks we got at some of the service’s high-profile new games. With all the hoopla over the new iPhones’ cameras and battery life, price and midnight green color, perhaps it’s easy to overlook Apple Arcade. Cameras come and go, but over the next two years, it’s Apple’s subscription …
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