Tyler flew to San Francisco from Kansas for the day just to test out the Oculus Rift. Stephanie tried the HTC Vive to see if it was as immersive as it’s been billed by reviewers. And Jesse stood in line three times so he could try out the Rift, Vive and Samsung’s Gear VR. It’s …

As Twitter is wont to do, the microblogging network became a de facto town square Sunday as politicians, personalities and every day folk shared their thoughts and memories of former First Lady Nancy Reagan. Reagan, perhaps most famous for her “Just Say No” anti-drug abuse campaign, died Sunday morning at her home in Los Angeles of congestive heart failure. She …

Twitter served as the nation’s town square Saturday as politicians, personalities and everyday folk flocked to the social network to offer thoughts on the death of US Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. Within hours of his death, Twitter users had sent more than 650,000 tweets about Scalia. A jurist on the court for three decades, 79-year-old Scalia was one of …

Enlarge ImageJack Dorsey had some things to say at TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco in 2012. Daniel Terdiman/CNET Newly crowned Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey came to fame as a co-creator of the microblogging service, which limits messages to 140 characters. But even with his emphasis on brevity, he’s rarely at a loss for words. Dorsey is now starting his second …

“As Reddit has grown, we’ve seen additional examples of how unfettered free speech can make Reddit a less enjoyable place to visit, and can even cause people harm outside of Reddit,” said Huffman. Reddit Steve Huffman, co-founder and new CEO of Reddit, held an “Ask Me Anything,” or AMA, on Thursday to lay out a set of new policies that …

Why is Ellen Pao leaving Reddit? “Ultimately, the board asked me to demonstrate higher user growth in the next six months than I believe I can deliver while maintaining reddit’s core principles.” Justin Sullivan, Getty Images The following is the (unedited) letter Ellen Pao posted to the Reddit community after resigning Friday as CEO: After more than two years at …

Apple’s larger-screen iPhones seem to have gotten the company back in the game in a big way. CNET Looks like it’s neck and neck between Apple and Samsung in the race for smartphone champ. And Apple’s got momentum on its side. The Cupertino, Calif.-based iPhone maker saw its share of the global smartphone market grow to 20 percent in the …

Samsung showed off a prototype Tizen TV at the 2014 Tizen Developer Conference in San Francisco. The company says all its 2015 smart TVs will run the OS. Nate Ralph/CNET Samsung’s Tizen operating system will power all the company’s smart TVs in 2015, the Korean electronics maker announced Wednesday, another step in Samsung’s efforts to gain a foothold for the …

Hackers continue to nab credit card numbers by placing malware on stores’ payment systems. Getty Images Kmart and Dairy Queen customers should check their credit- and debit-card statements for shady activity. That’s because the retailer and the fast-food chain have become the latest businesses to reveal that their payment systems were hacked. “Beginning in early September, the payment data systems …

Google’s original “Google TV,” which was criticized for its complexity. Sarah Tew/CNET Google is getting set to unveil another TV effort — “Android TV” — and apparently it’ll look a lot like Apple TV, Roku, Amazon’s just-released Fire TV, and other set-top boxes. That’s according to a report in blog The Verge, which says it got its hands on internal …