iPhone users in the UK and Canada now have a central repository for all their health care information. The health records feature, which has been available in the US since 2018, collects medical records from multiple sources and consolidates it all within the Apple Health app.  Oxford University Hospitals and Women’s College Hospital are two …

I seldom use Google Maps to actually get directions, but I open the app almost every day for other reasons that might not be so obvious. Truth is, Google Maps is useful for a lot more than just showing you how to get from Point A to Point B. Beneath all those Christmas-colored traffic patterns and high-res satellite images hides a powerful …

Have you ever wished you could post the same picture to Facebook and Instagram simultaneously? Or wondered why you had to reenter your debit card number to buy something on Facebook-owned Instagram when Facebook already has your digits? Cross-platform controls are no longer just a pipe dream, as Facebook announced Tuesday the creation of a new portal called Accounts Center. Facebook …

Google on Tuesday announced the rollout of background noise filtering for the Google Meet app on Android and iOS, bringing to mobile a feature first introduced with the Meet desktop app over the summer. Starting today, the Meet app should be able to intelligently silence background noises including both nearby distractions, like typing and doors opening and closing, as well …

If you’ve ever deleted a Gmail contact and only later realized what a big mistake you’ve made, you can relax as long as you made the change in the last 30 days. Regardless of how many contacts you add or delete, Gmail keeps a 30-day history of every contact in your address book. So if you accidentally delete one or …

Amazon customers looking for a greener online shopping experience now have an easier way to identify more ecologically sustainable products. On Wednesday, Amazon announced the rollout of its new “Climate Pledge Friendly” label, which will highlight items that have been certified by a wide range of partners as sustainable products. The online retailer also created a dedicated storefront for the …

Whether you work with 4K or 8K video or simply want to eliminate as much lag as possible while gaming, Samsung says its new PCIe 4.0 NVMe solid state drive, the Samsung SSD 980 PRO, was designed for you. The company says its new storage drive doubles the read/write speeds of previous-generation PCIe 3.0 technologies to 7,000 MB/s and 5,000 …

Starting today, Amazon Music subscribers across all tiers will be able to listen to podcasts from within the Amazon Music app, the company announced Wednesday. In addition to established favorites, Amazon will offer original productions and has signed an exclusivity deal with the popular Disgraceland podcast, which covers true crime stories centered around famous musicians.  The service will allow syncing …

Apple’s new Apple Watch Series 6 goes all-in on health care, including a new feature to measure blood oxygen level — a vital sign that’s been helpful monitoring COVID-19, among other things. Other gadgets that do this known as blood, or pulse, oximeters have been around for ages and have become something of a hot commodity during the coronavirus pandemic.  …

This story is part of Elections 2020, CNET’s coverage of the voting in November and its aftermath. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg says it’s wrong to suggest the social media platform is designed to enrage people. In an interview with Axios on HBO, Zuckerberg admitted that partisan content on Facebook often gets high engagement  — such as likes or comments — …