Sarah Mitroff

Crave giveaway: Bizarre and amazing swag bag

Editor’s note: This week’s giveaway has a Snapchat component. Please read the below rules carefully. We’ve turned off comments on this post to avoid confusion as to how to enter the contest. Congratulations to Jonathan M. of Kansas City, Missouri, for winning a Timbuk2 laptop backpack last week. Fans of “Shark Tank,” this one’s for …

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Safer Wi

Mobile World Congress is in full swing in Barcelona, and the news keeps on flowing. On Tuesday, our crew got to see Microsoft’s newest Lumia, fitness bands from Garmin and a safer future in the workplace. As always, check out everything from MWC 2016 on CNET. Project Tango could come to a museum near you Google’s spatial mapping technology Project …

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A heat

Mobile World Congress 2016 is in full swing in Barcelona and for the first full day of the show, we’re seeing products that might change how we live. Yesterday was the big day for mobile phones, today is all about things you can wear and fill your home with to make life a little easier. Let’s take a look at …

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Samsung Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge vs. iPhone 6S, 6S Plus, LG G5 and Google Nexus 6P

Get ready for a couple of new Galaxies. Samsung just introduced two new phones, the 5.1-inch Samsung Galaxy S7 and curved-screen 5.5-inch Galaxy S7 Edge. This time around, the devices have powerful Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 processors, a microSD card slot for expandable storage, a water-resistant design and water cooling for better gaming performance. Those features give the phones a competitive …

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Samsung Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge vs Galaxy S6, S6 Edge, Note 5 and S6+

Samsung made a splash at Mobile World Congress 2016 with the announcement of the Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 Edge. These two new flagship phones don’t look dramatically different than the Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge before them, but it’s what’s on the inside that counts. This time around, the two phones have expandable storage (which was missing from the …

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Powerful flagship phones and VR dominate the biggest day of Mobile World Congress 2016

It’s the day before Mobile World Congress 2016 officially starts in Barcelona, but there’s already plenty of exciting new products to behold. Sunday, Samsung revealed its new Galaxy phones, the S7 and S7 Edge and LG debuted the G5. LG also took the wraps off a few cameras, a VR headset and a home-monitoring device. HTC announced the price for …

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Twitter will now help you find the perfect GIF

GIFs are everywhere on the Internet and now you’ll see more of them on Twitter. The company just introduced a new GIF search engine for you to find and add the moving images to your tweets and direct messages. Twitter added support for GIFs way back in 2014, but you had to find them on a separate site and upload …

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Instagram’s now going to show you how many people watch your videos

Your Instagram video from a day at the beach got a lot of likes, but how many people actually viewed it? Instagram will soon tell you. In the next several weeks, you’ll start to see the number of views below any videos you share. Below videos in your stream you’ll see the number of views, plus you can also see …

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High

Beauty and tech are both wildly popular things we spend our money on, so it was only a matter of time before the two worlds collided. In fact, this year’s CES threw its first ever Beauty Summit to show off the new ways technology is creeping into makeup bags and medicine cabinets. This isn’t about better makeup brushes, new skin …

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Not already addicted to Peach? Read this

Now playing: Watch this: What on Earth is Peach? 1:39 Every few months a new social network crops up hoping to sway us from Facebook and Twitter. This time it’s Peach, the newest app for sharing your life. Part Facebook, part Path and part Tumblr, the app helps you share parts of your life with friends. It was created by …

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