Congrats to Ashley M. of Ogden, Utah, for winning a Pocket Party Bluetooth speaker last week. When it comes to Black Friday deals, it’s hard to beat completely free. As usual, that’s what we have this week. We’re giving away a 128GB SanDisk Connect Wireless Stick, a flash drive for the mobile era that looks …

Congrats to Elden W. of Portland, Oregon, for winning two Nuyu activity trackers plus a Nuyu wireless scale last week. Is that a Bluetooth speaker in your pocket or are you just happy to see another Crave giveaway? Both, it turns out. This week, we’ve got a Pocket Party, a pocket-size Bluetooth speaker with a colorful integrated light show that …

If you spend any time on Twitter, you probably noticed a lot of love on the site on Tuesday. Well, a lot of hearts anyway. A little red heart icon has usurped the familiar little yellow star icon used for expressing approval of others’ 140-character musings. Akarshan Kumar, a Twitter product manager, noted in a blog post that the star …

The Mexican holiday Day of the Dead traditionally focuses on honoring deceased loved ones through elaborate altars covered with offerings to summon the spirits of the dead. Sometimes, however, Día de Los Muertos altars pay tribute to flip phones. A few feet away from me here at CNET’s San Francisco headquarters, my colleague Tania Gonzalez is typing away at her …

This week, for Breast Cancer Awareness Month, we have a special router. It’s the Linksys WRT1900ACS. In pink. Linksys made only a limited number of the pink Wi-Fi routers, and this is your chance to get one for free. CNET’s Dong Ngo reviewed the $229.99 WRT1900ACS earlier this month and called it the best router available from Linksys. He gave …

Congratulations to Soo H. of San Diego for winning a Ventev s500 desktop charging hub in last week’s giveaway. Free speakers always make our readers happy, so this week we have another one, the Fluance Fi50. The speaker delivers high-quality sound in a retro-styled wood package. It features a two-way driver design with a tweeter mounted in the center of …

Enlarge Image Ventev Congratulations to Art N. of Glendale, Arizona, for winning a Novo portable sound controller from Adaptive Sound Technologies last week. (Art won another Crave giveaway back in July; this guy’s picking my lotto numbers from now on.) If you’re annoyed by having to climb under your desk to deal with your charging hub, have a look at …

Enlarge ImageNo Bra Day/Facebook Sometimes a hashtag starts out as one thing and morphs into another. Such is the case with #NoBraDay, an October 13 social-media call to ditch the bras to raise breast cancer awareness. (How the two are correlated exactly is unclear.) It also called up controversy Tuesday as titillating (forgive the pun) messages and headlines piled up …

Enlarge Image Adaptive Sound Technologies Congratulations to last week’s winner, Terry M. of Roseburg, Oregon, for winning a pack of five PowerSnap Charger power outlets with built-in USB ports. Ever have trouble getting the volume on your mobile device just right? This week’s prize, an audio accessory from Adaptive Sound Technologies called Novo, automatically boosts or reduces your headphone volume …

Editing so many science stories at CNET, I’ve become fairly conversant in space facts. Until Monday night, however, I did not know that Orion’s Belt is made of real leather or that the big red spot on Jupiter is actually a Target store. I have @Midnight’s nightly #HashtagWars on Twitter to thank for my expanded knowledge. For those who’ve managed …