Pluto TV, the free streaming service found on Samsung, Sony and Vizio TVs, is expanding. In a new partnership announced Thursday, the service will now be available on Comcast’s Xfinity X1 cable box.  The streaming service was already available on the cable provider’s Xfinity Flex, a $5-per-month streaming box that doesn’t include a cable subscription. The …

With E3 2019 fully underway in Los Angeles, everyone from Microsoft and Nintendo to EA and Ubisoft are showing off their latest gaming updates. As PC gaming continues to grow, LG has taken to the show to update its UltraGear line of monitors, with the company touting its newest editions as the world’s first one-millisecond response time IPS displays.  Calling …

AT&T will soon have its first 5G phone. The Samsung Galaxy S10 5G will come to the nation’s second-largest network on June 17, but with a catch. Samsung’s 5G phone will only be available for business customers. The phone, previously an exclusive to Verizon, will work with AT&T’s millimeter wave 5G network (what the carrier calls “5G+”), which is currently live in certain parts of 19 …

T-Mobile and Sprint have hit another government roadblock in their quest to merge.  A group of 10 state attorneys general, led by New York Attorney General Letitia James and California Attorney General Xavier Becerra, filed a multistate lawsuit Monday to stop the pending $26 billion deal.  The antitrust lawsuit claims that the merger would “deprive consumers of the benefits of …

HTC’s latest VR headset is now available, for those willing to pay a hefty price.  Designed for businesses and not consumers, the $1,599 Vive Pro Eye builds on last year’s consumer-focused Vive Pro, adding precision eye tracking, heatmapping and gaze tracking to the already powerful Vive Pro.  First announced at CES, the PC-connected virtual reality goggles already appear to have …

Apple may have a new way to fight the robocall epidemic: Siri.  Buried toward the bottom of its new iOS 13 features page, Apple lists an update for the Phone app. Called “Silence unknown callers,” the new setting aims to use “Siri intelligence to allow calls to ring your phone from numbers in Contacts, Mail and Messages. All other calls …

Apple’s continued push for privacy control went further than Monday’s WWDC announcement of the new sign-in with Apple offering. In a less publicized update, the tech giant also adjusted its App Store guidelines. Among the new updates, Apple revealed that apps designed for kids or in the “kids” category of the App Store can no longer “include third-party advertising or analytics …

This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. Apple’s iOS is getting a spinoff.  A new leak spotted right before the company’s WWDC developer conference revealed the new name for the iPad focused version of iOS: iPadOS.  Spotted by a number of notable Apple followers, including developer Steve Troughton-Smith, the company appears …

If you had troubles with YouTube or Gmail on Sunday, those issues should now be fixed. Google Cloud had been experiencing widespread problems Sunday, which wreaked havoc on YouTube, Snapchat, Gmail, Discord and a host of other popular apps and services across the eastern United States. YouTube wasn’t completely down for CNET’s John Falcone in Brooklyn Sunday, but some videos were inaccessible, at …

If you own a colorful Heyday iPhone charging cable from Target, you may need to stop using it and return it ASAP.  The US Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) sent a recall notice this week for Heyday’s 3-foot Lighting cables due to potential shock and fire hazards. Heyday is Target’s house brand for electronics.  According to the commission, the recall covers …