Now playing: Watch this: Testing the newest Nvidia 1080 gaming desktops 1:31 The rise of virtual-reality headsets, including the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift, has led to a surprising arms race in gaming desktops, a category that’s languished in the past few years. Adding fuel to the fire is a new generation of graphics cards, …

After being the editor-in-chief of Engadget, co-founding The Verge, and serving as the editor of Bloomberg Digital, Josh Topolsky is prepping a new media brand. The new website is called The Outline. It has raised $5 million in funding with a plan to launch in the fall of 2016, according to The Wall Street Journal. Topolsky told the Journal that …

Marking the one-year anniversary of the launch of Windows 10, Microsoft is releasing a series of changes it calls the Windows 10 Anniversary Update. But if you’d rather start with a brand-new PC than update the operating system on your old one, Microsoft has announced a series of temporary discounts on some Windows 10 laptops and hybrids, from retailers such …

Roberto De Jesus Escobar Gaviria, brother of Pablo Escobar, has asked Netflix to let him preview the upcoming season of its original series ” Narcos.” Enlarge Image Roberto Escobar PR NEWSWIRE / Excobar, Inc. “I am submitting a formal, friendly request to review this material solely on an informational basis,” said Roberto Escobar in a press release Tuesday from Escobar …

If you’ve ignored any of the previous reports of unsafe hoverboards that can catch fire, the US Consumer Product Safety Commission would really like you to pay attention now. In a new product recall alert posted Wednesday to its website, the CPSC warns that the “lithium-ion battery packs in the self-balancing scooters/hoverboards can overheat, posing a risk of the products …

Now playing: Watch this: Get started with Snapchat Memories 1:35 Snapchat, the messaging app made popular for its disappearing photos, is now documenting history. The social network on Wednesday unveiled a new feature called Memories, which lets users save content in a sharable way, without having to resort to saving individual images in their phone’s camera roll. Memories are sharable …

Slim hybrid PCs that can do double duty as both a laptop and tablet usually carry premium prices, especially ones that are thinner than a MacBook Air and use Intel’s high-end Core m-series processors. Asus has a new 13-inch model that manages to be very thin, use an Intel Core M processor and cost just $699 in the US (which …

Now playing: Watch this: The slimmest laptops of 2016 1:28 Slim laptops have been trendy before, from the original MacBook Air to the now-forgotten ultrabook movement. But unique to 2016 is a new generation of systems that combine thinner-than-ever designs with powerful components, high-resolution screens, and prices that hit a very achievable mainstream sweet spot. Much of this is thanks …

Now playing: Watch this: Testing Siri and more on Apple’s new MacOS 3:18 There’s a huge change coming to MacBooks, iMacs, Mac Minis and Mac Pro desktops. The operating system running Apple’s computers is getting renamed and updated, going from OS X to MacOS. (The new name is more in line with iOS and WatchOS, and the shift feels like …

Virtual-reality headsets like the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive require heavy duty desktop gaming PC parts to run, and they require you to be tethered to a PC by a long cable. Seeking to break gamers free of that, Alienware is showing off a reference design of a portable VR-ready PC, built into a slick-looking backpack. Dan Ackerman/CNET It’s not …