This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. Brands are about to get a lot more chatty with Apple’s iOS 11.  Apple this week at its Worldwide Developers Conference unveiled its new iMessage Business Chat feature that lets companies connect directly with you in its texting app. …

This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. Apple‘s back in a tricky position heading into this year’s developer conference: playing catchup. It’s a familiar situation. Apple’s usually not the first to leap into new markets — think smartphones or tablets. But when the company finally commits, it adds a level …

This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. A drone hovers about 3 feet above the long wooden table. A man holding a shiny iPad Pro types something on the screen, and the drone suddenly flips over backward then comes to rest on the table’s surface. Next, a small gray robot …

Your dad doesn’t know how to configure his router. Your grandma can’t figure out how to program her TV remote. Your kid has questions about science homework while you’re on a business trip. Or maybe you’re the one who needs help.   We’ve all been there — fielding requests for assistance when we aren’t physically around.  Now, PTC’s Vuforia augmented-reality …

Here we thought the next cool screen tech would be foldable displays. Turns out, they could be stretchable. Samsung this week showed off new display technology that looks kind of like a trampoline. The 9.1-inch stretchable OLED display prototype, which Samsung called the first of its kind, can be flexed in two directions, unlike conventional flexible OLED displays that can …

There’s no need for the Supreme Court to get involved in Apple v. Samsung again, at least according to Apple. The iPhone maker on Monday filed its response to a Samsung petition for the nation’s highest court to consider yet another aspect of the two companies’ long-running patent dispute. Samsung in March asked the Supreme Court to look at a …

The Hilton Union Square Hotel in San Francisco was busier than normal as people hustled to grab boxed sandwich lunches. The food was provided by Samsung, which played host to a developer conference last week to promote its homegrown Tizen operating system. With a turkey sandwich in hand, I struck up a conversation with a photographer who has never made …

Goodbye yellow blobs. Hello, new Google emoji. Yes, that’s right. Google’s finally changing its hideous old emoji for the next version of its mobile software, Android O. Instead of blobs where it’s almost too difficult to tell what the face is actually doing, the new emoji will look more like what you get on an Apple iPhone or a Samsung …

Baseball is coming to your Facebook page. The social media giant and Major League Baseball are partnering to stream 20 games this season — one a week — to all Facebook users in the US. The games, streamed as part of Facebook Live, will air on Friday nights. The first game will be the Colorado Rockies at the Cincinnati Reds …

The back and forth on the laptop ban on airplanes is enough to give you whiplash. Talks between the US Department of Homeland Security and European Union on Wednesday in Brussels ended with a decision not to ban large electronics from the cabin of flights from Europe to the US, according to the Associated Press. The US had proposed the …