Good news for Google Fiber TV owners who are feeling like the set-top box is getting a little stale. The company on Wednesday announced the biggest update to the service since its launch in 2012. The interface overhaul brings in a new look and feel, both for live TV and recorded shows, that helps users …

Now playing: Watch this: USB-C and Thunderbolt 3: One port to rule them all 2:58 A few hours before the Apple event, I made a bet with a coworker: I think this new iPhone is going to have USB-C instead of Lightning. Well, you know how that turned out. And I get it. There are plenty of reasons why Apple …

Now playing: Watch this: Hands-on with the iPhone 7 Plus 2:03 Now that the new iPhone 7, iPhone 7 Plus and the new Apple Watch Series 2 are a reality, here’s the information on when you can get your own. Both phones are available for preorder on September 9 and at the store on September 16, just three days after …

Now playing: Watch this: Apple debuts iPhone 7 2:42 Apple has just announced its latest large-screen phone the iPhone 7 Plus. Not surprisingly, the company calls it the “best iPhone ever created,” with dual cameras, an all new jet-black color (yay!), the elimination of the headphone jack (alas!) and a new processor called the A10 Fusion. But how powerful exactly …

When you’re traveling, chances are you will use public Wi-Fi at the airport. Here’s a quick tip to get the fastest speed: Don’t move around. That’s right, this might sound irrelevant but it’s not. The vast majority of airports have a large Wi-Fi network, called a mesh network, composed of many access ​points. Think of them as little Wi-Fi satellites …

Editors’ note: This post is part of a series and is regularly updated. For the other parts, check out the related stories below. Wi-Fi and internet are two different things. Let me say it again: they are two different things. For years now, the term Wi-Fi has often been synonymous with access to the internet. Most of us use “Wi-Fi” …

Would you like a phone that had assembled itself? That’s the idea researchers at MIT’s Self-Assembly Lab have been experimenting with, says a report in Co.Design. The team designed six pieces of hardware and put them inside a spinning drum. After a while the parts clicked onto each other via magnetism and formed two separate cell phones. According to the …

Among other things, Netflix is not available in North Korea, but now there’s an alternative — sort of. The communist country has launched a set-top box called Manbang (which means “everywhere” in Korean) that allows for two-way communication between users and the service provider, according to NK News. Korea Central Television, which is North Korea’s state broadcaster, revealed the device …

Now we know why Microsoft’s HoloLens augmented-reality goggles are so cool. Turns out they run on a superpowerful 24-core processor that can perform a trillion operations per second. Microsoft revealed the details of the chip, which it calls a Holographic Processing Unit, on Monday at the HotChips conference in Cupertino, California. The HPU is a custom-designed chip with a 28nm …

Is your computer gigabit speed-capable? Does it support the latest 802.11ac Wi-Fi standard? At what speed does it connect to your current network? What the hell is your current IP address? And how do you find the MAC address? If you’ve ever pondered any of these questions, this is the post for you. This tip works on Windows 10, 8 …