Like other iOS pre-loaded apps like Stocks and Calendar, Apple’s new Apple Watch app can’t be removed. Screenshot by Nick Statt/CNET What better way to convince Apple iPhone users they should shell out hundreds if not thousands of dollars for the latest gadget than an app you can’t remove from your smartphone? After updating your …

The Apple Watch Edition version of the company’s wearable contains an 18-karat gold casing that elevates its price to a minimum of $10,000. James Martin/CNET It’s Apple Watch’s time to shine. After months of speculation following the company’s September unveiling of the gadget, Apple dished out more details about its smartwatch Monday at its special “Spring Forward” launch event at …

Apple Watch can cost as little as $350 or as much as $17,000. Apple has new warranty plans to cover every purchase in between. Tim Stevens/CNET Those considering the newly priced Apple Watch can rejoice: the company’s warranty policies are friendlier than usual. A standard purchase of any Apple Watch model includes a free full year of hardware repair coverage …

Dole’s wearable banana uses LEDs and sensors to display messages and track distance and heart rate. You can also eat it. Screenshot by Nick Statt/CNET Before the Apple Watch, there was the Dole banana. The world’s largest producer of fruits and vegetables, Dole has sponsored the Tokyo Marathon since 2008 and supplied bananas to potassium-deficient runners throughout the race. The …

Xiaomi is launching an online store in the US in a few months, but won’t be bringing its flagship Mi line of smartphones. Aloysius Low/CNET SAN FRANCISCO — Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi is bringing its products to the US, but perhaps not the ones consumers might clamor for most. The company announced Thursday at a fireside chat with press here …

Motorola’s Moto 360 was the best-selling Android Wear device of 2014, but Google’s OS has a ways to go to catch up with competitors. Sarah Tew/CNET The first figures are in for devices running Google’s Android Wear operating system — and they’re lagging behind the wearable market’s less flashy and feature-packed gadgets by a wide margin. Google’s OS for smartwatches …

Gone are the days of going to the hardware store. KeyMe’s iOS app lets users take a photo of their key and upload it to the cloud to print a new one on the fly. KeyMe I’ll never forget the moment I swore I’d never lose my keys again: Heavy snowfall and a freezing cold night in upstate New York, …

While a new Zelda game is in the works for Nintendo’s Wii U, the franchise may see its live-action television debut at the hands of Netflix. Nintendo Television’s newest star may be a sword-carrying, elf-like hero who must fight off the forces of evil alongside a powerful princess. Sounds like something out of “The Hobbit,” but no. It’s the recurring …

Since his trial began on January 13, supports of Silk Road mastermind Ross Ulbricht have protested outside the Manhattan courthouse. Getty Images Ross Ulbricht, a soft-spoken former Eagle Scout with a master’s degree in materials science, has been convicted of creating and operating the Silk Road, one of the Web’s largest marketplaces where criminals could buy and sell drugs and …

Sunrise’s popular cross-platform calendar app was a hit among users thanks to smart design and support for various services. Sunrise Satya Nadella celebrated his one-year anniversary as head of Microsoft with yet another app acquisition. This time, the software giant has scooped up popular mobile and desktop calendar app Sunrise for more than $100 million, according to a report from …