Google‘s YouTube will now be able to load a lot faster in Cuba. Google on Monday signed an agreement with Cuba’s national telecom provider, ETECSA, to store data for Google services on the Caribbean island. Previously, signals had to travel from Cuba through Venezuela, which hurt the quality of the data. Google sites like YouTube …

Instagram‘s live video feature is rolling out just in time to capture your family holiday extravaganza. The company, which is owned by social networking giant Facebook, is releasing the feature to all US users starting Monday. Live videos, announced last month, is similar to Facebook Live and Twitter’s Periscope in that it lets you broadcast live videos to your followers. …

AT&T, T-Mobile and Sprint are working with Samsung to kill off your Galaxy Note 7. But they’re going to let you enjoy Christmas first. The wireless carriers on Friday said they will issue software updates from Samsung that will prevent Note 7 devices from charging and will “eliminate their ability to work as mobile devices.” Samsung earlier in the day …

Now playing: Watch this: Samsung’s Note 7 refuses to die on Verizon 1:22 Only one carrier’s not going along with Samsung’s plans to brick remaining Galaxy Note 7s. Verizon Wireless, the biggest wireless provider in the US, said Friday it won’t issue a software update that would prevent Note 7 devices from charging and would “eliminate their ability to work …

This story is part of CNET’s “Tech Enabled” series about the role technology plays in helping the disability community. When Dean Hudson was 12 years old, he’d bribe his brothers and sisters to read computer manuals to him. Hudson’s vision was muddled by glaucoma, and he wanted to learn how to code on the computer his dad brought home. “At …

Now playing: Watch this: Samsung wins in Supreme Court battle against Apple 1:14 The US Supreme Court on Tuesday handed Samsung a victory in its long-running patent dispute with Apple. The nation’s highest court said in a unanimous opinion that damages for design patent infringement can be based only on the part of the device that infringed the patents, not …

Shazia Shakeel knocks on a door in the Sattar Khan Colony of Nowshera. Three Afghan children live in the home next to the broad Kabul River in this part of northern Pakistan. Teams have stopped here many times before, but they were never able to inoculate the children against polio. This time, Shakeel and the rest of her team won’t …

If you’re looking for holiday shopping ideas, there are some products you can get only one place — the Apple Store. No, we’re not talking about the iPhone. We’re talking about some other third-party products like the $40 Play-Doh Touch Shape to Life Studio, the $179 Roli Blocks for music creation, and the $130 Lifeprint photo printer that lets you …

Microsoft has formed a partnership with OpenAI, an Elon Musk-backed company, to research artificial intelligence. The two companies will focus on “making significant contributions to advance the field of AI” and will work on their “mutual goal of using AI to tackle some of the world’s most challenging problems,” Microsoft said Tuesday in a blog post. Microsoft added that it …

Pinterest wants to make it easier for you to find new people and brands. The company on Tuesday launched a new section, called “Pinterest Explore,” on its website and app that uses machine learning to show you what’s trending on Pinterest. It also will show picks from “top tastemakers,” industry experts and Pinterest employees. Brands and publishers — like Food …