In Roadshow Senior Editor Brian Cooley’s article he showed us that dashcams are ever-increasing in popularity in the states, and not just for deep-diving on YouTube for accidents or catching would-be insurance scammers in Russia anymore.  Dashcams are incredibly useful gadgets and have been standard practice in police cars, buses, taxis, and for driving instructors, …

5G is the fifth generation of cellular technology and with it comes a promise of increased speed, coverage and responsiveness of wireless networks. Proponents of 5G claim that this upgrade doesn’t only come with big speed boosts to your cellular device, but will also greatly benefit other areas of tech such as self-driving cars, virtual and augmented reality as well …

The world’s largest media conglomerate just got bigger. Disney’s complete its acquisition of 21st Century Fox last week, March 19. The $71.3 billion dollar deal is one of the largest media mergers ever, and comes with a huge haul of properties such as movies, a movie studio, TV shows, TV networks and even a controlling stake in the TV streaming service Hulu. This …

Facebook experienced an almost day-long outage on Wednesday. Facebook’s outage affected a near 2 billion people, with their problems starting around 9 a.m. PT Wednesday morning. The outage affected users mainly in the US and Europe, but also affected users in South America, Australia and Asia.  The outage was also felt in apps and companies owned by Facebook, most notably …

Smartphone design just got taken to another level. Nubia, an associate company to Chinese telecommunications company ZTE, just unveiled the world’s first wearable smart phone at MWC 2019. The smartphone, (or is it a smartwatch?), named the Nubia Alpha, looks like something out of a sci-fi novel, and it’s a first step toward the wearable tech of the future.  The …

Samsung’s Galaxy Fold reveal kicked off Unpacked with a bang on Wednesday, showing off an eye-catching foldable phone with an astounding price tag of $1,980 (about £1,500 or AU$2,800). It’s a high price, but it does contain a lot of luxury-level specs. The phone has six cameras, two batteries, a 4.6-inch cover display when the phone is folded up, a 7.3-inch …

Think of all the sites and all the apps you’ve signed up for — that’s a lot of passwords. Some people choose to write theirs down in case they forget, or they use the “remember me” function when they log in, or worst of all, and very commonly, use the same exact password for everything. Many people have their own …

Google has dominated headlines in the tech world this past week. The search giant is permanently shutting down its social network Google+ after failing to disclose a data breach that exposed up to 500,000 accounts between 2015 and March this year. In addition to the Google+ breach, there are claims that between the years 2011 and 2012 Google bypassed the …

In this edition of CNET Member Asks, we’re dealing with an important subject and an interesting twist of fate. This week we are combining two member-submitted questions on the same subject, both from guys named Rick. Rick A. is from West Milton, Ohio. Rick T. is from an area outside of Louisville, Kentucky. Both have the same problem. They both …