Now playing: Watch this: It’s inevitable: Samsung will build a phone with a foldable… 1:36 Will consumers flip for a foldable phone? Samsung promo video 2014 Samsung seems to have worked out the wrinkles on its much-rumored foldable phone and could unveil such a handset later this year, according to a report from Korea. The …

Ever seen an ancient mummy in a museum and wanted a closer look? I mean a much closer look. Google said Monday it is letting you do that and more through partnerships with museums around the world using its augmented reality platform Tango. By tapping the location and augmented reality capabilities of Tango, part of Google’s ambitious plan to map …

Apple is focusing its rumored interest in the augmented reality space on creating a new pair of AR glasses with Carl Zeiss, according to a new report. The tech titan is working with the German optics manufacturer on a pair of lightweight AR/mixed reality glasses, according to tech evangelist Robert Scoble. The project, which could be announced as early as …

Twitter suspended Martin Shkreli’s account on Sunday following harassment of a freelance journalist. The pharmaceutical executive began trolling Lauren Duca after she wrote an opinion piece for Teen Vogue in December under the headline Donald Trump is Gaslighting America. Shkreli, a Trump supporter, soon began peppering Duca with messages of faux attraction, including an invitation to be his date at …

It’s almost over. The year that many regret for its taking so many celebrities from us has mere hours left before it too passes from this world. To mark the end of 2016 and the arrival of 2017, Google has created an animated doodle of balloons bouncing in a net, eagerly awaiting their chance to drop down and join the …

Apple had nearly twice as many phone activations this holiday season as its rival Samsung, according to new research released Tuesday. About 44 percent of new phone activations during the holidays were Apple’s iPhones, compared with Samsung’s 21 percent, said mobile-app analytics firm Flurry. While the iPhone continues to be the gift of choice, Flurry noted Samsung is “slowly growing …

If you live in Canada, you can expect a future in which high-speed internet connections will always be a way of life. Broadband internet access is now considered a basic service in Canada, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission, the country’s telecommunications regulator, said Wednesday. The decision mandates higher download speed targets and creation of a C$750 million fund to …

Mark Zuckerberg is still trying to explain what his company does. The Facebook CEO said in August that the social-networking giant had no ambitions of being a content provider, insisting that Facebook is “a tech company, not a media company.” On Wednesday, he appeared to retreat a bit on that statement, painting a slightly different portrait of his company during …

There was no escaping death and politics in 2016. That’s the lesson from Wikipedia, which on Wednesday released the list of its most-edited pages for the year. Predictably, the contentious US election dominated our attention, both on Wikipedia and in the real world, with five of the top 10 edited-pages being related to the candidates, campaign endorsement and primaries. The …

Now playing: Watch this: Tim Cook says ‘great desktops’ are coming 1:21 Remember the Mac Pro from 2013? Some wonder if Apple does. CNET Tim Cook is apparently trying to dispel the feeling that Apple has abandoned the desktop. Though the company released an overhauled MacBook Pro laptop in October, it’s been years since much of its Mac lineup of …