Quick show of hands: Who wants to spend $1,000 or more on a new phone? Not everyone, that’s for sure. That’s where devices like the iPhone SE come in, and this week Apple introduced the newest SE, priced at $429. As part of our coverage of the “Peek Performance” Apple event, CNET’s Lisa Eadicicco stacks …
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Spotify has already found a home on millions of phones. Now it’s looking to land on car dashboards as well, with the widespread launch of its Car Thing. As a first-generation device, it’ll have to prove its worth, which may be why Spotify’s R&D chief likens it to the Amazon Kindle, which seems to have done all right for itself …
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This week we met the latest top-of-the-line phones from Samsung, the $1,200 Galaxy S22 Ultra, the $1,000 S22 Plus and the $800 just plain S22. (Here’s a cheat sheet to help you parse the particulars.) And not a moment too soon: Apple’s been making steady progress in locking up the market for premium smartphones, at Samsung’s expense. The arrival of …
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It’s been a rough couple of weeks for Spotify. Legendary rocker Neil Young yanked his music from the service, calling it out for the COVID-19 misinformation served up on Joe Rogan’s podcast, an exclusive to Spotify. Other musicians, including Joni Mitchell and India.Arie, followed suit, and for a while at least, the hashtag #DeleteSpotify was trending on social media. Spotify’s …
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This story is part of CES, where CNET covers the latest news on the most incredible tech coming soon. The first week of the New Year brought us 2022’s biggest tech show, though in a pandemic-altered state. CES 2022 soldiered on in a hybrid format, with many of its headliners showing off their latest wares and boldest concepts in virtual …
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Every year has its ups and downs. The ups are a thrill. The downs are often fascinating, for what they reveal about the limits of our ambitions, the challenges of trying to get things right and the escape hatches that might get us out of trouble (or the rabbit holes that take us ever deeper). Or just because misery loves …
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They’re on everyone’s holiday shopping list: gift cards. Swankier than straight cash, gift cards are all about convenience. They’re available for a zillion different stores, they’re lined up waiting for you right by the checkout and you don’t have to worry about fit or fashion or maybe even that hard-to-please relative. They’re great for kids, college students, co-workers, in-laws and …
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Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger has ambitious goals: restoring Intel to its earlier glory as the leader in the chip industry, and in so doing, boosting the US share of chip manufacturing to levels it hasn’t seen in several decades. To get there, he’s making big investments: Intel’s just begun building a pair of chip fabrication plants in Arizona at a …
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What goes up must send data back down. That, in a nutshell, is why we send satellites into orbit. A case in point: the GOES satellites that NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration use to collect data about weather on Earth. CNET’s Claire Reilly went behind the scenes to find out how Lockheed Martin is building the latest of …
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What’s old is new again for Apple, which this week refreshed its MacBook Pro line at the high end and touched up its AirPods and HomePod Mini offerings as well. The biggest change: The 16-inch MacBook Pro now runs on Apple’s own M1 chips, rather than those from Intel. And what’s old is inexplicably still with us: This week marks …
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