Now playing: Watch this: 7 lightest 15-inch laptops you can buy 1:45 It used to be if you wanted a lightweight laptop, one that weighed less than three pounds, you had to settle for a 12- or 13-inch screen size. Not anymore.  With display sizes of 15 or 15.6 inches, these ultraportable laptops give you …

GoPro just made frictionless video editing with your phone a thing.  As part of an update to its GoPro (formerly called Capture) and Quik editing apps for iOS and Android available today, the camera maker has introduced QuikStories, a feature that automatically pulls video and photos from a paired Hero5 camera and turns them into a shareable video with customizable …

Like getting a new phone every year? Sprint would like to help you with that, regardless of your budget.  The telecom company is rolling out a new lease option called Sprint Flex that lets you pick a phone now and then decide at 18 months whether you want to continue your lease, buy it outright or just flat out return …

The Drone Racing League’s RacerX quad is so fast it gives new meaning to the saying “blink and you’ll miss it.”  With a top speed of 179.3 mph (288.6 kph) and an average speed of 163.5 mph (263.1 kph), the RacerX set a Guinness World Record for the fastest racing drone. Designed and built by the DRL’s techs, it took …

Adobe’s new mobile scanning app ups the ante on competitors and does away with paid subscriptions and upgrades.   Called Scan, the free app for iOS and Android converts printed text into a PDF simply by snapping a picture of it. That’s not unusual for scanning apps, but Adobe’s including optical character recognition (OCR) for free.  That means once your …

There’s no shortage of streaming video options, but that’s not stopping free, ad-supported internet TV service Pluto TV from inking content deals left and right.  The service, which is accessible on Amazon’s Fire TV, Roku, Chromecast, smart TVs, mobile devices, game consoles and basically anything with a web browser, has partnered with Gravitas Ventures, a rights distributor of independent films. The …

Now playing: Watch this: Ditch your ancient Windows XP PC for one of these alternatives 1:21 Still using a Windows XP computer? At least 7 percent of computer users are, according to the latest browser stats — and that’s 7 percent too many. Yes, it turns out that the vast majority of people who got snagged by the recent WannaCry/WannaCrypt …

If you’re ready to dive into creating 360-degree photos and video, Samsung has a new camera to sell you and you don’t even have to have one of its phones this time around. Available starting Thursday, May 25, the 2017 Gear 360 will sell for $230 — more than $100 less than the bigger, but less powerful original. You’ll be …

Over the past couple years there’s been a steady stream of stories about unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), aka drones, being used for deliveries. There was the Domino’s Pizza delivery in New Zealand, the 77 7-Eleven drops to customers in Reno, Nevada, and Google parent company Alphabet’s Chipotle burrito shipments to Virginia Tech students, to name a few. Click for more …

Now playing: Watch this: Google Lens is smart enough to identify flower species 1:32 Google CEO Sundar Pichai on Wednesday announced a new initiative called Lens that uses computer vision and image recognition to help you with everything from editing photos to identifying a flower, simply by taking a picture. More from Google I/O 2017 Android O, Google Lens and …