This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. Now playing: Watch this: Apple unveils iOS 10, packs it with new features 3:43 Is the tenth time a charm? Apple on Monday revealed its newest mobile software, iOS 10, designed to power its iPhones and iPads with …

Ask any gamer out there about playing games on a PC, and they’ll tell you about Alienware. The Miami-based company has been building gaming PCs for 20 years. It’s become one of the most recognizable computer brands out there thanks to its alien-head logo, with glowing eyes peering out, that’s emblazoned on its other-worldly looking computers. One of its most …

Now playing: Watch this: 20 years of Alienware: Origin Story 6:00 Imagine it’s 1996, and you just finished watching FBI Special Agent Fox Mulder break out of a Russian gulag in his search for the truth about aliens, government conspiracies and the paranormal. Nelson Gonzalez couldn’t get enough of TV shows like “The X-Files,” “Star Trek,” “The Outer Limits” and …

We already know Facebook manipulates its algorithms to test our emotions and encourage us to vote. Now it seems CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his team may have tried to affect our politics as well. Two reports from the tech blog Gizmodo allege that Facebook’s trending topics list, which sits at the top right of its website and is one of …

All that time spent debating Apple’s products, which video game console is the best and the merits of using Facebook may finally be worth something. Adobe, yes the Photoshop maker, said Tuesday that it has agreed to acquire Livefyre, which it calls “a content curation and audience engagement company.” What Adobe means is it’s bought the company that manages your …

When we think of the Internet of Things, stuff like Web-connected cars, key-chain finders and door locks are usually among the first things that come to mind. Microsoft is hoping to change that with an Italian company it just purchased called Solair. This is definitely not the type of IoT company you and me will ever buy anything from though. …

Time for a slightly-spoilery “Game of Thrones” joke. Talking about whether the iPhone 7 will have a headphone jack has become a spectator sport around the rumor mill. The latest comes from AppleInsider, which itself picked up a posting by a French site Nowhereelse.fr, which got its news from the Chinese blogging site Weibo. The rumor is that newly uncovered …

It’s turning into the rematch cage-match of the year. Terry Bollea, aka wrestler Hulk Hogan, filed a new lawsuit against the blogging empire Gawker Media, some lawyers and a couple of radio personalities, claiming they conspired to leak to The National Enquirer a recording of him saying racist things about his daughter’s then-boyfriend. Following the comments, World Wrestling Entertainment, the …

When CNET opened its San Francisco offices for its first VR day, more than 1,000 readers signed up to try out this new technology. Now Oculus, one of the leading makers of virtual-reality headsets, which Facebook bought for $2 billion, is working with Best Buy to offer demonstrations to customers at its stores starting May 7. The company said it …

Facebook’s history is already the stuff of Silicon Valley legend: CEO Mark Zuckerberg dropped out of Harvard soon after launching the social network, which became one of the world’s most influential companies less than a decade later. On Wednesday, we learned more details about Facebook, including the June 20 date for its annual shareholders meeting in Redwood City, about 20 …