Now playing: Watch this: Facebook rumored to release a wireless Oculus headset 1:32 If cables and mobile phones are cramping your virtual reality experience, Oculus might soon be able to set you free. According to reporting from Bloomberg, Oculus has plans to release a $200 virtual reality headset in 2018 that doesn’t require a phone …

Are offensive comments on your Instagram posts ruining your brunch? The photo-sharing site is introducing two filters to clean up those comments, the company said Thursday in a blog post signed by Instagram CEO Kevin Systrom. The first automatically keeps certain offensive comments off your posts before you see them. The second looks for spam comments and blocks them as …

Microsoft will acquire Israeli cloud-management tool company Cloudyn, the software giant said Thursday in a blog post.   While Microsoft did not disclose Cloudyn’s price tag, it said the acquisition fits in with its efforts in cloud-based services for businesses. Cloudyn’s tools already work with Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform. “Cloudyn capabilities will be incorporated into our product portfolio that offers customers the …

Tech companies including Amazon, Etsy, Vimeo, and Reddit are coming together for a day of action July 12 to protest the potential rollback of net neutrality rules proposed by the Federal Communications Commission.  Announced Tuesday, the internet-wide Day of Action to Save Net Neutrality will involve getting people to contact Congress and the FCC, said Evan Greer, campaign director for …

High-end virtual reality is making its way to Macs. HTC’s virtual reality headset, Vive, will be compatible with Apple’s latest operating system, High Sierra, the Taiwanese company said Monday in a blog post. This comes in conjunction with Apple’s announcement Monday that it’s working with video game maker Valve’s SteamVR platform to make it compatible with High Sierra. “Through a newly …

This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. Apple’s racked up 27 million Apple Music subscribers, said Craig Federighi, senior vice president of software engineering, Monday at WWDC.  That’s about 7 million more since December.  For context, music streaming service Spotify hit about 50 million subscribers in March. Apple Music was …

This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. Now playing: Watch this: New iMac, iMac Pro designed with crisper displays, more… 1:28 Apple’s iMac computers are getting an internal upgrade boosting processing power and display quality. They’ll include a 7th generation Intel core processor known as Kaby Lake clocked between 4.2 …

Now playing: Watch this: Has Netflix gone soft on net neutrality? 1:15 Netflix is ready to wave the white flag when it comes to the war over net neutrality. The Federal Communications Commission and President Donald Trump want to tear down the rules governing an open internet that were put in place under the previous administration. While Netflix has been …

Now playing: Watch this: New Google tools will power Star Wars VR high-end mobile… 3:00 The next Star Wars film might be just that much better thanks to a new technology from Google. The search giant unveiled a new tool called Seurat at its Google I/O developer conference in Mountain View, California, on Thursday. It partnered with ILMxLab, the branch …

Just think of all the brunch pics 700 million Instagram users can generate. The photo-sharing app hit just that milestone of monthly active users, according to a blog post Wednesday. Since December, Instagram has racked up 100 million new users, a growth of 16.7 percent in a single quarter. The company, founded in 2010 and bought by Facebook in 2012, …