Netflix‘s latest documentary series, “Abstract: The Art of Design,” explores the artistic minds and creative processes of the world’s top designers in fashion, art, cars and more. It includes prominent figures with jobs you expect to see highlighted in a series about design, like architect Bjarke Ingels, photographer Platon, graphic designer Paula Scher and interior …

The importance of a tablet’s screen quality can’t be understated. I mean, the majority of your interactions with a tablet take place on its display. When it comes to qualifying the best, there’s more to the screen quality of a tablet than meets the eye — proverbially speaking. In addition to high resolutions and pixels per inch (ppi), there are …

Intel’s newest low-cost NUC is a cheap, fully functional Windows 10 PC with a quad-core Apollo Lake Celeron processor. You can find it online for around $230. Intel What’s an NUC? That stands for “next unit of computing,” which is Intel’s name for a line of mini desktop computers. Often, these are bare-bones systems that ship without an operating system …

In the midst of the weird and wacky tech at CES 2017, ViewSonic announced a trio of monitors that will go on sale in June. ViewSonic VP3881 Ultra-wide and curvy. Xiomara Blanco/CNET The ViewSonic VP3881 is a 37.5-inch monitor with a curved screen. The most expensive of the trio at $1,999 (converts to £1,625 and AU$2,762), it has a super-wide …

Now playing: Watch this: Kim Kardashian’s favorite iPhone case gets (even more)… 1:08 Lumee, the creators of Kim Kardashian’s favorite iPhone case, know that the secret to great selfies is good lighting. The company has improved their latest model with even more built-in lights than before. The Lumee Duo case has built-in LED lights on the front and back to …

Now playing: Watch this: This glowing orb is a smart toy for kids with special… 0:52 The Leka is like a magical glowing orb that’s designed to help special-needs children improve fine motor skills, visual cues and social skills. The smart toy costs $700 to $800 and is available for preorder now; however for a limited time there’s a CES …

T-Mobile is the first major carrier to push an update to remaining Samsung Galaxy Note 7 handsets that will prevent the phone battery from charging. Once updated, the phones will display an on-screen notification about the recall with instructions and they will no longer have the ability to charge. The update, which will essentially make the phones unusable, will also …

One of the most original, weirdest (in a good way), critically-acclaimed TV shows to debut in 2016 was “Atlanta.” And in a year that brought us “Stranger Things” and “Westworld,” that’s saying a lot. The half-hour FX surrealist comedy-drama follows Earnest “Earn” Marks, portrayed by Donald Glover (no relation to Danny), as he attempts to venture into the music business …

Battery life is the one feature that truly affects all other aspects of a tablet’s functionality. Let’s be real: if you run out of battery life, there’s not much you can do with a dead tablet. Here is a list of tablets that lasted the longest during CNET Labs’ tests. Before the test is run, we put the tablet into …

If you bought one of Barnes & Noble’s $50 Nook 7 tablets, you might want to upgrade its software ASAP. The low-priced gadgets, launched in time for the holidays this year, came preinstalled with a program called ADUPS that quietly sends user data back to a third party. In a statement, Barnes & Noble Chief Digital Officer Fred Argir said …