Amazon’s subscription music service, Music Unlimited, launched last year to compete with existing services like Spotify and Apple Music. It’s now getting a bigger global footprint: it’s available in 28 new countries starting today, Amazon announced. The service boasts 40 million tracks, is independent from Amazon Prime and works on iOS, Android, Macs, PCs, web …

Fitbit wants to go after the Apple Watch. Will more apps help? The Fitbit Ionic, Fitbit’s newest watch that debuted in October, didn’t launch with a lot of apps right away. Now it’s got a number of others, available today via a software update. Earlier this year, Fitbit promised that app development would eventually transform what the Fitbit Ionic could do, …

I pull out my phone. I tap it to the terminal. I’m told I can’t use it, I have to use a credit card. I apologize, reach for my wallet. I feel like an idiot. This is me making payments in 2017. I don’t use my phone to pay for things all that much. Or, my watch. I use my …

The Apple Watch already has a heart rate sensor, and it can even help flag potentially dangerous cardiac conditions.  Apple is working on having the heart rate sensor check for heart rhythm abnormalities (atrial fibrillation), and has just launched a heart rate study with Stanford that anyone can opt into and test. But there is a new strap for the Apple …

I tend to splurge on random e-books every time there’s a Kindle sale, and I almost never have time to get to read any of them. But, there are some good stand-outs this year. This is by no means a definitive list of the best stuff (go browse the titles, there are a lot), but a few really good books …

Shopping for your new kitchen in a physical store? Odds are, you’ll eventually be window-shopping in AR. The home furnishings giant Williams-Sonoma is purchasing Outward, a San Jose company specializing in 3D scanning and augmented reality, for $112 million, Recode reported Friday. Williams-Sonoma also owns Pottery Barn and West Elm. Outward made an AR app for Pottery Barn called 3D …

We’re entering a world of always-on broadcasting, on a ton of apps and platforms. Facebook’s had an app called Mentions that allowed verified users and organizations to create and track video streams and engagement in ways that felt like what YouTube offers. The app can now be in anyone’s hands, and it’s now called Creator: it’s on iOS now, and …

Sooner or later, every device might be capable of making payments. Garmin Pay, announced earlier this year as a competitor to Fitbit’s new mobile Fitbit Pay platform and other wearable payment services such as Apple Pay, Android Pay and Samsung Pay, is now live. To use it, you’ll need to have a Garmin Vivoactive 3 smartwatch. But you’ll also need …

Now playing: Watch this: iPhone 8, 8 Plus or X: Which should you get? 3:42 Picking an iPhone used to be dead simple: just get the new one. But, in 2017, Apple has three new iPhones: a basic iPhone 8, an upgraded 8 Plus, and a fancy iPhone X. That’s not even counting all the other iPhones Apple still sells, …

Now playing: Watch this: Apple HomePod is delayed until 2018 1:07 HomePod is now a 2018 product. James Martin/CNET Expected to launch in December, Apple’s HomePod is being pushed back to 2018, the company announced Friday. “We can’t wait for people to experience HomePod, Apple’s breakthrough wireless speaker for the home, but we need a little more time before it’s ready …