For photographers, almost every new iPhone has a little something special, and one of Apple‘s newest devices, the iPhone 12 Pro, is no exception. It brings a few seemingly simple, but entirely effective, upgrades that I think shutterbugs are going to love.  This week, I took the iPhone 12 Pro on a short trip to a …

California’s Lost Coast is a world of its own at the edge of the continent. Located in Humboldt County, in the far northern part of the state, this remote stretch of pristine coastline sits atop the backpacking trip bucket list. With few towns or major roads, it’s best explored via the 25-mile Lost Coast Trail that winds along black sand …

Much of the West Coast woke up to dark orange skies this morning, as wildfire smoke from hundreds of fires burning across California, Oregon and Washington blocked the sun.  If, like many of us, you grabbed your phone to capture the creepy scene in a weird year that somehow continues to get weirder, you may have noticed that your phone’s …

Daisy is many things. It’s a 33-foot-long robot that pulls apart iPhones with its five arms. It was created by Apple. It’s a cacophony of servos, pressurized screw punches and other moving parts. It may also hold a key to electronic recycling’s future. This robot, announced last year, is at the center of a new Material Recovery Lab Apple’s built …

Some of our best experiences happen when we travel, and our best souvenirs are the visual memories we record. For many of us, that means carrying around expensive and heavy cameras that often force us to swap lenses and change settings before we can even begin to capture the images we want. And while your DSLR or high-end mirrorless camera …

The iPhone 7 Plus gets a new camera, and this one is a big deal. Actually, it’s two big deals: two 12-megapixel cameras on the back, one wide-angle and one telephoto. Our very own professional, CNET Senior Photographer James Martin spent six days with the iPhone 7 Plus and its cameras. He worked in and around San Francisco, taking shots …

Now playing: Watch this: He wanted to take a picture 2:25 This is part of our Road Trip 2016 summer series “Life, Disrupted,” about how technology is helping with the global refugee crisis — if at all. In June, I traveled to Greece to photograph the lives of refugees and migrants after more than a million fled to Europe. My …

The four original phones used for the first transcontinental telephone call were unveiled this week and will be on display at the California Historical Society. James Martin/CNET SAN FRANCISCO — “Ahoy! Ahoy! Mr. Watson, are you there? Do you hear me?” So spoke Alexander Graham Bell to associate Thomas Watson, over a line stretching more than 3,400 miles, marking the …