Amazon’s Fire TV 2 bundles cost a tad less, thanks to an across-the-board price cut of $10. Enlarge Image The Amazon Fire TV 2 now costs $90 — 10 bucks less than before. Sarah Tew/CNET The price cut doesn’t apply to the new Fire TV Stick, but it brings the cost of the core Fire …

If documents and photos submitted to the US Federal Communications Commission are to be believed, Samsung is prepping a new voice-activated Bluetooth speaker that looks an awful lot like a potential competitor for the Amazon Echo and the upcoming Google Home. First noticed by Ausdroid, the speaker is currently called “Scoop.” It’s about the same size as the Amazon Echo …

In the Game of Thrones, you either win or you die. Thankfully, the stakes are a lot lower in the game of audience demand, where the paranormal nostalgia series “Stranger Things” is inching closer to knocking off top dog “Game of Thrones.” Enlarge Image Parrot Analytics Parrot Analytics, which measures audience demand across all platforms, has HBO’s “Game of Thrones” …

Google Fiber announced more than a year ago that it was exploring ways to bring its super-speedy internet service to San Jose, California. Now, months after city officials approved the major construction needed to make it happen, the subsidiary of Google parent company Alphabet is hesitating. According to a report Tuesday in the San Jose Mercury News, officials with Google …

In an age of GIFs, Vines and Apple’s Live Photos, it isn’t all that surprising to see still photography take another step away from stillness. That’s exactly what Polaroid is doing, with Tuesday’s debut of an app called Polaroid Swing that aims to help you create and share “moving photos” on your phone. Each photo taken in the app is …

The Holocaust Museum in Washington is a deeply affecting memorial to the victims of Nazism during World War II, and home to a number of historical exhibits from the period. This week, however, it also became the home to a trio of PokeStops, where players of the immensely popular augmented-reality game Pokemon Go can collect items. Pokemon Go inserts virtual, …

Pikachu, I choose not to see you. The PokeGone Chrome extension promises to filter out all Pokemon-related content. PokeGone Pokemon fever is everywhere with the past week’s meteoric rise of the Pokemon Go augmented reality app for Android and iOS devices. People are scrambling from PokeStop to PokeStop and loitering at gyms where their carefully collected pocket monsters can do …

It might make you feel like vomiting (a rainbow), but seeing more advertisements in between your snaps on the immensely popular messaging app Snapchat was basically an inevitability. Now, Snapchat’s making it official with Monday’s announcement of “Snapchat Partners,” a venture aimed at expanding advertising opportunities in the app. The focus for now, according to Adweek, is on Snapchat’s auto-advance …

T-Mobile on Tuesday announced another expansion of its “Binge On” program, which lets you stream music and video from select services without burning through your mobile data plan. The new arrivals include Azubu, Dailymotion Games, Eyegroove and PBS, which should come in handy if your kids like to watch “Sesame Street” in the backseat. It’s the sixth time T-Mobile has …

After airing to an audience of 14.4 million viewers over Memorial Day weekend, A&E Networks is sending its remake of the classic miniseries “Roots” to Hulu. All episodes of the miniseries will stream exclusively on the service starting this fall, Hulu said in a release Tuesday. Based on Alex Haley’s 1976 novel “Roots: The Saga of an American Family,” the …