Dell made two of the very best Android tablets you could buy — until now. The company is no longer selling its Android-based Venue tablets, and it won’t be replacing them with new ones. As of today, Dell isn’t selling any Android products at all. “The slate tablet market is oversaturated and is experiencing declining …
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Microsoft pays woman $10,000 over forced Windows 10 upgrade
Now playing: Watch this: Microsoft pays $10,000 for a Windows 10 update gone wrong 1:18 Windows Updates aren’t always a good thing. Sometimes, an unwanted automatic update can ruin your day…or livelihood. Just ask Teri Goldstein, the California travel agent whose computer allegedly kept crashing after an unwanted upgrade to Windows 10 — right in the middle of her busiest …
Read More »iPhone 7 won’t have a major design change, reports WSJ
Now playing: Watch this: iPhone 7 may not feature drastic changes 2:31 Do you like the current Apple iPhone 6S and 6S Plus? Good, because a new report suggests the iPhone 7 won’t be much different. The Wall Street Journal basically corroborated Tuesday what analysts and rumors have said for months: The big hardware changes, the ones that would really …
Read More »Windows Phones are finally (!) getting mobile payments
Way to come late to mobile payments, Microsoft. The tech giant said Tuesday that it finally turned on the ability to pay for purchases with a tap in some of its phones running Windows 10 software, the first of which Microsoft launched in October. Microsoft trails Apple, Google and Samsung, whose phones have used NFC mobile payments for months. If …
Read More »Apple reportedly pulls legacy MacBook Pro, making space for new models
Apple only sells one laptop with an optical disc drive and a spinning hard drive — and that laptop may not be long for this world. The 13-inch unibody MacBook Pro, originally introduced in 2008 and unchanged since 2012, is reportedly being pulled from Apple Store shelves. Apple Insider and The Next Web both confirm that the laptop has disappeared …
Read More »Razer’s new VR headset sounds like a big improvement
Eighteen months ago, Razer had a pretty cool idea: an open-source virtual reality headset. Problem was, its $300 OSVR headset wasn’t nearly good enough to jumpstart an open software and hardware ecosystem. So at this year’s E3 show, the PC gaming peripheral maker is announcing a new and improved version of the headgear. The Hacker Development Kit 2 will cost …
Read More »Star Trek: Bridge Crew will let you captain a starship in VR this fall
VR is about to make another sci-fi dream come true. LeVar Burton (Geordi La Forge), Jeri Ryan (Seven of Nine) and Karl Urban (Dr. McCoy) have already gotten an taste — according to the Associated Press, video game giant Ubisoft gave the three Star Trek actors an early peek at a brand new VR game dubbed Star Trek: Bridge Crew. …
Read More »How Google’s Tango works
Now playing: Watch this: What is Tango? 1:22 Google’s Tango is hard to explain. The new feature, which will first be available on the Lenovo Phab2 Pro superphone this September, is an indoor mapping technology…but it’s also augmented reality. You can measure objects! Take dinosaur selfies! Live out your Ghostbuster fantasies. Perhaps most impressively, you can construct an elaborate chain …
Read More »Facebook’s new 360
Facebook wants to make it easier for you to help your friends feel like they’re part of the action when you share an image on the social network. On Thursday, Facebook will begin rolling out a feature that lets you upload your panorama images to the network and have them converted to 360-degree views. Those rotund photos will be viewable …
Read More »Watch a Nerf war from the perspective of a DJI Phantom 3 drone
Now playing: Watch this: We filmed this epic Nerf gun battle with a flying drone 2:01 This past weekend, I took a drone to a Nerf war. No, I haven’t invented a quadcopter capable of shooting foam darts. I just wanted to show CNET readers what it’s like to play one of my favorite new sports. I also figured it’d …
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