Europe’s largest electronics show, IFA 2016, kicks off this week and it’s already brimming with new gadgets and appliances. Held in Berlin, Germany, the show includes 240,000 visitors and 1,600 exhibitors all trying to show off their latest tech gadgets. Today marks the end of Day 1, and there were big announcements from Samsung, Lenovo/Motorola …

If you haven’t already, do yourself a favor and follow the Transportation Security Administration’s Instagram account. In addition to the intermittent photos of adorable bomb-detecting dogs, you’ll also see a bunch of illegal items the TSA confiscated from unwitting airline passengers. Some are pretty typical (machetes, ninja stars, mummified head, etc.). Guns and firearms, which are allowed in checked bags …

Tech-giant Google has added three features to its popular navigational and mapping app, Google Maps. For Android users who don’t want to incur data charges or have to succumb to the fact that they live in an area with spotty network coverage, you now have the option to access Maps only when you’re on a Wi-Fi network, through the settings …

Now playing: Watch this: OnePlus 3 flaunts its luxe gold looks 1:00 Combining premium hardware and an affordable price tag, the much talked-about OnePlus 3 lived up to its hype and became one of our favorite phones of the year. Originally launched in silver, the $400 or £309 (which converts to about AU$590) handset now comes in gold…ish. In lieu …

Now playing: Watch this: 3 reasons to believe the OnePlus 3 hype 1:50 OnePlus has always positioned itself as the small, scrappy phone maker just trying to make great phones for its users. And while its latest flagship handset, the OnePlus 3, is indeed a great phone, there are downsides of being a small company. Namely, running out of product. …

Think you know what it takes to make a great phone? Apparently ZTE thinks you know. too. Originally announced earlier this year during CES 2016, ZTE finally launched Project CSX today. Project CSX is a crowd-sourced initiative where fans submit ideas for the the company’s next phone. Users can submit their ideas through ZTE’s forum, Z-Community, and up-vote other ideas …

Now playing: Watch this: Everything Samsung’s Galaxy Note 7 can do 2:03 At a press event in New York, Samsung introduced its 5.7-inch Galaxy Note 7 — the latest iteration of its big-screen, stylus-packing phone. Featuring an iris scanner, a water resistant design and a 12-megapixel camera, the Note 7 is a workhorse of a handset. With its Snapdragon 820 …

Republic Wireless, which uses local Wi-Fi networks to patch through phone calls and send texts, is adding several new Android handsets to its lineup and shaking up its pricing structure. The carrier will begin selling the following phones at full unlocked prices (users can pay monthly installments over 18 months as well): Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge ($799 or $48/month) Samsung …

Now playing: Watch this: Motorola’s ambitious Moto Z and Z Force put you in control 1:44 Now that Motorola’s newest flagship phones, the Moto Z and Moto Z Force, are available today at Verizon, Motorola is releasing a developers kit so that developers can design and create more modular accessories for the handsets. Known as Moto Mods, these accessories stick …

“Carpool Karaoke,” a made-to-go-viral segment from “The Late Late Show with James Corden,” is branching out to its own series and will be distributed exclusively by Apple Music. The series will include 16 episodes and be produced by James Corden, CBS Television Studios, and Ben Winston’s production company, Fulwell 73. Corden will not host the series. (Editors’ Note: CNET is …