London-based startup Nothing on Tuesday unveiled its first device: a pair of true wireless earbuds it’s calling the Ear 1 that feature a novel semitransparent design. Founder and CEO Carl Pei, previously of OnePlus, had already revealed that the earbuds would contain notes of transparency — something that turned out to be very much the …

Back in September, OnePlus co-founder Carl Pei started to contact friends in the tech industry to tell them he wanted to start something new. Since then, Pei has dropped small teasers for his new company, Nothing, even as the details were still wrapped in mystery. On July 27, we’ll see the first product from his venture — the Ear 1 …

Hong Kong has defended an attack on its proposed privacy law from a coalition representing major US tech companies, including Facebook, Google, Twitter and Apple. The focus of the change in the law is to curb doxxing — the publication of people’s personal details including addresses and phone number online. Doxxing has been a major problem for Hong Kong since …

Four of the world’s biggest social media platforms — Facebook, Google, Twitter and TikTok — pledged on Thursday at the UN Generation Equality Forum in Paris to bring in improvements to their services that would make women safer online. The promises come after over a year of consultations run by Tim Berners-Lee’s Web Foundation, in which over 120 women experts from …

If you’re in the market for some new earbuds and are undecided on which ones to go for, you may want to hold off making your final decision for another month. That’s because new tech company Nothing, started by Carl Pei, formerly of OnePlus, is all set to launch its first product, the Ear 1, on July 27. Back in …

If you’ve ever wondered what impact your use of Facebook services has on the environment, now you can know for sure. Every one of Facebook’s 2.85 million users produces 12 grams of carbon dioxide by using the company’s services every year. That’s 25 times better than in 2016, when each user produced a little less than 300 grams of CO2 …

For many years, Google and Apple have been the two biggest and most dominant names in mobile ecosystems globally, but the UK’s competition regulator is now asking whether this duopoly is offering phone users the best deal. On Tuesday, the Competition and Markets Authority, the country’s antitrust regulator, announced that it is “taking a closer look” at iOS and Android. This …

Europe’s top court ruled on Tuesday that national privacy regulators could pursue investigations into big tech companies, even if they aren’t the lead regulator for that company — in specific circumstances. Until now, regulators have been bound by Europe’s one-stop-shop rule, which means only the regulator in the country where the company has its European headquarters may bring GDPR enforcements …

Tuesday will be remembered as the day the internet broke — before swiftly being fixed again. Early in the morning, websites including Amazon, Reddit, Spotify, eBay, Twitch, Pinterest and, unfortunately, CNET went offline due to a major outage at a service called Fastly. Everywhere you looked, there were 503 errors and people complaining they couldn’t access key services and news …

This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. With intense competition in the messaging app market, it stands to reason that Apple would introduce some new features to its homegrown iMessage service at WWDC 2021 to keep ahead of its rivals. For the second year running, WWDC is an online event …