If you want to understand and tweak how Google uses your private data, the internet giant hopes to make it a bit easier soon with a new dashboard that works better on mobile devices. The dashboard already lets you see what data Google stores about you, like websites you’ve opened with the Chrome web browser …

Zelle, a big new force in whisking your money around, is about to get a notch more useful as the service launches its app for iPhones and Android phones on Tuesday. Zelle lets people transfer money quickly from one checking account to another using many US banks. That’s handy for splitting the bill at a restaurant or giving a college …

So far it looks like Samsung has recovered from last year’s Note 7 flameout, new US sales data from the company shows. The new high-end Samsung Galaxy Note 8 phone is the best-selling Note in the US based on preorders so far, the Korean electronics giant said Friday. It declined to share details about exactly how many have been ordered …

Authentication is a thorny problem. Passwords can be stolen, face recognition can be spoofed and personal identification information can be hacked. The four biggest phone network companies formed an alliance so your phone can help make it better, though. Verizon, T-Mobile, Sprint and AT&T hope to release technology in 2018 that will improve authentication though data revealed by your phone …

Don’t expect a hologram of Princess Leia to pop out of the Hydrogen One phone, pleading “Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi, you’re my only hope.” But in a different way Leia will be inside the $1,200 phone due to arrive next year. Red, the high-end cinema camera maker behind the Hydrogen One, said Friday that a startup called Leia is providing …

Now playing: Watch this: Google Drive is dying — time to update 1:05 The Google Drive app for personal computers will stop working March 12, 2018. Its fuller-featured replacement, Backup and Sync, is available now. Stephen Shankland/CNET If you’re among the hundreds of millions of people using Google Drive to synchronize files across your PCs and phones, be warned: you’ve …

This is part of our Road Trip 2017 summer series “The Smartest Stuff,” about how innovators are thinking up new ways to make you — and the world around you — smarter. Well before sunrise, I pull my SLR, a super-sturdy carbon-fiber tripod and a gargantuan $11,500 camera lens out of my car’s trunk. I’d driven two hours through the …

A total solar eclipse is a photographer’s dream and a photographer’s nightmare. I learned that firsthand at 11:25 a.m. Monday in a roughly plowed dirt parking lot in Weiser, Idaho, about 75 miles north of the state capital of Boise. Tens of thousands of us headed to this town of 5,500 souls, giddy and excited to witness the total eclipse. …

I remember my roommate, way back in 1986, laboriously stringing together phonemes with Apple‘s Macintalk software to get his Mac to utter a few sentences. It was pioneering at the time — anybody else remember the Talking Moose’s jokes? But boy, have things improved since then. Publishing a new round of papers on its new machine learning journal, Apple showed …

I just upgraded to gigabit broadband at home. But being able to download a 2GB episode of “Game of Thrones” in 16 seconds isn’t what gets me excited. It’s the ability to upload data at 1 gigabit per second — not just download it — that helped me decide to cancel Comcast and sign up for AT&T Fiber. Downstream data …