If you’re considering purchasing a connected toy for your offspring, you might want to think twice. In Germany, regulators have determined that the My Friend Cayla doll could be up to no good, given its potential to steal information about children who play with it. And they say that German parents whose children are in …

Samsung had a lifetime’s worth of battery woes in 2016. Seeking to ensure it doesn’t endure a repeat crisis in 2017 the company is looking to a variety of battery manufacturers to provide parts for the much-anticipated Galaxy S8. The company is adding a familiar name to the current lineup of manufacturers providing batteries for this year’s flagship phone — …

Hankering after a Galaxy S8? Well you’re going to have to wait. Samsung will not unveil its next flagship phone at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona next month, the company revealed Sunday. The announcement was made by Samsung’s mobile chief Koh Dong-jin and confirmed in an email to CNET on Monday. “Samsung can confirm the company will not unveil its …

Celeb-owned music-streaming service Tidal is getting a boost from a major US carrier. Sprint announced Monday that it is buying 33 percent of the service, which is famous for being backed by rapper Jay Z. Buying a third of Tidal will allow Sprint to offer the service, as well as artist content not available elsewhere, to all 45 million of …

Ever wanted to check out the size of Donald Trump’s hands yourself? Your time has come. HTC is letting everyone get up close and personal with the 45th US president via its VR headset, the Vive, the company said Friday. Available now in the Vive app store, “Wide Awake” allows you to explore a detailed, true-to-life recreation of the Oval …

Who’s got two thumbs and a Secret Service-approved phone to tweet from? On arriving in Washington on Thursday ahead of his inauguration, Donald Trump handed in his Android device in exchange for an unidentified locked-down phone, according to the Associated Press. The phone comes with a new number that is known only to a limited number of people. This marks …

Tall, small, dancing, singing, cleaning, sassy, silly, cute and scary — CES 2017 was awash with robots. While there are the obvious ones like the humanoid “Pepper,” exhibits at the colossal electronics show stretched the definition of a robot to include Amazon Echo-like hubs that featured glowing eyes or that bobbed to music. You can thank Amazon’s Alexa voice assistant …

Now playing: Watch this: Robots everywhere at CES 2017 19:07 CES 2017 will always be remembered as the show where we met our future robot overlords — and were foolishly disarmed by how darn cute they were. Even when, back in December, we predicted the robots were coming, we didn’t realize quite how many bots we would encounter. The droids …

Livestream Sony will be getting a jump on CES by holding its press conference on the eve of show itself. Kicking off at 5 p.m PT/10 p.m ET., the conference will round off a full day of major product announcements. Unlike its big rivals LG and Samsung, Sony has kept its plans under wraps prior to the show kicking off …

Now playing: Watch this: Highlights from Sony’s CES 2017 press conference 4:02 If there was a prize for shortest, most efficient press conference at CES, the award would go to Sony. The company’s president, Kazuo Hirai, blasted through Sony’s product announcements on Wednesday evening in Las Vegas in a record 23 minutes. There were no bells, whistles or half-hour selfie …