Environmental activist organization Greenpeace has teamed up with repair gurus iFixit to rate a selection of 40 phones, laptops and tablets for the ability to make common repairs that might extend their lifespans, keep them out of landfills and make it possible to easily recycle the parts. Popular products from Apple, Samsung and Microsoft did …

Rumor after rumor after rumor after rumor has insisted that the return of the once-flammable Galaxy Note 7 phablet will be in June. But according to South Korean wire service Yonhap News Agency’s anonymous sources it’s finally coming next week on July 7.  The same report confirms the name will be Galaxy Note 7 FE, for “Fandom Edition” and that …

If you’ve been champing at the bit waiting to buy a new iMac but waiting for Apple to update the components of the once cutting-edge but now tired old model, then most of the iMac 2017 updates really were worth waiting for: the 27-inch model, at least, is deffinitely a 2017 system inside and out. Here’s a breakout and analysis of the …

Now playing: Watch this: HP’s new gameworthy Omen PCs 2:01 When we reviewed the 2016 model of HP’s Omen gaming laptop, we called it high-performance gaming minus the flashy design. For 2017 HP’s dropping a rethought-out line of its Omen gaming systems updated with the flashy design, just in time for E3. Remember the backpack VR PC prototype from last year? Now …

This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. Now playing: Watch this: Apple unveils iMac Pro at WWDC 2:29 For WWDC 2017, Apple headed south to San Jose, dogged by damning comparisons with Google, Facebook and Microsoft over its lack of attention to mixed reality (VR and AR), Siri’s absence from …

Nikon delivers a trio of new lenses aimed at very different types of photographers, from the budget-focused consumer to the quality-focused pro. The AF-P DX Nikkor 10-20mm f4.5-5.6G VR’s focal range overlaps somewhat with the typical 18-55mm kit lens, but if you’ve got one of the four-digit dSLR models, its aggressive $310 price is pretty attractive for fulfilling any wide-angle …

Now playing: Watch this: Google Lens is smart enough to identify flower species 1:32 What’s Google got in store for us in 2017 and beyond? We tuned in to its Google I/O developer conference on its 10th anniversary to bring you the lowdown. Unlike the hardware-centric announcements of last October, I/O focuses mostly on software and how to to get …

I’ll spare you the presentation about datacenter technology (though its EPYC server architecture sounds pretty impressive), but AMD’s financial analyst conference revealed availability news about several forthcoming products that you probably should care about. Rumors about Vega, AMD’s most recent graphics processing architecture to follow Polaris, which powers its current cards, have been circulating recently and today the company confirmed …

It looks to me like Microsoft has wrestled control of our creative future from Apple and Adobe. When you combine Microsoft’s two most recent updates of its Windows 10 operating system — the first Creators Update and the just-announced Fall Creators Update — with its aggressive work in mixed-reality and computing-related hardware, it looks like Windows is becoming the go-to …

Now playing: Watch this: Microsoft debuts Windows Story Remix to edit and organize… 3:54 Microsoft hopes to make a show of creative force for its Fall Creators Update with Windows Story Remix, a new application that incorporates all the 3D technologies it rolled out with the initial Creators Update to help intelligently create mixed-reality montages. It’s like a combination of …