Now playing: Watch this: Pixel phone, Chromecast Ultra, Andromeda: What’s next… 2:04 Is this a new 4K Chromecast Ultra? Venture Beat A pair of new leaked images may give us a peek at what Google plans to unveil during a media event next week. It has long been rumored that Google would make its own …

BlackBerry’s next Android phone might be just around the corner. Details of the unannounced handset, which the company briefly revealed by accident last week, have shown up in a filing with the Federal Communications Commission. The agency is responsible for ensuring that devices sold in the US that use radio frequencies — like phones — operate without causing harmful interference. …

Facebook has been overestimating the average time it told advertisers that users were spending watching videos on its platform for two years, possibly affecting marketer spending on Facebook ads. The metric was artificially inflated because it only counted videos as viewed if they had been seen for three or more seconds, not taking into account shorter views, the company revealed …

You may not recognize the name Rodolfo Guzmán Huerta, but you are probably familiar with his face — well his mask, really. Better known as El Santo (The Saint), he was a masked professional wrestler whose career in the ring spanned nearly five decades. As one of the most famous Mexican luchadores, El Santo was a folk icon who helped …

The autumnal equinox arrives in the Northern Hemisphere on Thursday, officially heralding the first day of fall, one of two days of the year when the length of day and night is nearly equal. To mark the onset of cooler weather and progressively shorter days, Google has created an animated doodle that welcomes back the familiar family of boulders that …

Now playing: Watch this: Comcast going cellular, Google teases possible Pixel… 1:48 Google said late Monday it will hold a media event in San Francisco next month, at which it is expected to unveil its new flagship phone. The October 4 event was announced in a YouTube video that shows the web giant’s familiar horizontal search bar slowly morphing into …

Using wearable activity monitors to count your steps may not help you lose weight as promised. In fact, more weight loss might be achieved without them. That’s the conclusion of a study published Tuesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association that found people who used activity trackers lost five pounds less than those who didn’t. The results surprised …

Twitter is being sued by a shareholder who claims the social network misled investors about its prospects for growth, causing wild swings in the company’s stock price. The suit, filed Friday in federal court in San Francisco, alleges Twitter and its executives misled shareholders in November 2014 when they promised an increase in monthly active users to 550 million in …

Amazon unveiled on Thursday its largest renewable energy project to date: a mammoth wind farm in Texas. When it opens next year, the west Texas farm will generate 1 million megawatt hours of electricity annually, enough to power nearly 90,000 US homes, Amazon said. The farm will include more than 100 turbines, each with a rotor diameter twice as long …

Now playing: Watch this: Apple sold out of iPhone 7 Plus, jet black iPhone 7 1:03 Expecting to pick up an iPhone 7 Plus on Friday? Dream on. Sarah Tew/CNET If you have your heart set on an iPhone 7 Plus, you may have to be patient. Apple said late Thursday that initial quantities of the larger version of its …