As Apple prepares to launch its $5-a-month Apple TV Plus rival to Netflix next month, the gadget giant has kicked off early talks with record labels about bundling the streaming-TV service with Apple Music, its streaming-music service — and at least one big label is wary, according to a report.  Some labels are open to the …

This story is part of The 2010s: A Decade in Review, a series on the memes, people, products, movies and so much more that have influenced the 2010s. When I hustled out of CNET headquarters in San Francisco on May 26, 2010, and slipped into a rental car with two of my co-workers to head to a meeting across the …

Deep Fusion, Apple’s new image processing technique for the iPhone 11, 11 Pro and 11 Pro Max, is now available as part of both the developers beta and public beta of iOS 13.2. Deep Fusion will only work with iOS devices running an A13 Bionic processor, which is currently only the newest iPhones. Read: iPhone camera comparison: iPhone 11 with Deep Fusion vs. …

The Google Pixel 4 and Pixel 4 XL are coming soon — very soon. Oct. 15, to be precise. That means Google Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL deals are coming, well, now. For a limited time, and while supplies last, Daily Steals via Rakuten has the unlocked Google Pixel 3 64GB for $399.99 with promo code SAVE15. If all this sounds a little familiar, it’s because …

AMD‘s new mainstream graphics cards and mobile GPUs will be coming to midpriced gaming systems just in time for the holiday shopping season. The Radeon RX 5500 and 5500M are based on the same Navi 7nm architecture as the higher-end RX 5700 and RX 5700 XT. They’ll go head-to-head with the Nvidia GeForce GTX 1660 and 1650 in systems designed …

“Hey Siri, play Lizzo on Spotify.” That’s all it takes now to listen to your favorite songs, artists, albums and playlists on Spotify. The music streaming service on Monday updated its mobile app for iOS 13, adding Siri support. This means you can ask Apple’s virtual assistant to play music via the Spotify app.  The release notes for the update …

Earlier this year, Amazon made some small upgrades to its entry-level tablet, the Fire 7. Now its top-of-the-line, value-priced Fire HD 10, which starts at $150 for the 32GB version, gets a similar update, adding a faster processor, 2-megapixel front camera and something we haven’t seen before in an Amazon tablet: USB-C charging. The new Fire HD 10 is available …

After its first teardown was taken down at Samsung’s request, iFixit is back with a new look at Samsung’s updated Galaxy Fold.  In the new teardown, the disassembly experts have taken apart Samsung’s updated Fold to see just what changes were made to the updated version of the phone-tablet hybrid. As expected, considering all the issues that popped up during …

Amazon’s been selling kid-friendly editions of Fire tablets for a while, but now it’s bringing the Kids Edition concept to its Kindle e-reader. The new Kindle Kids Edition includes the entry-level Kindle bundled with a case, one year free of Amazon’s FreeTime Unlimited subscription service and a two-year free replacement guaranty should the device break. Available for preorder now, the …

Hulu, after promising downloads more than a year ago, is finally joining the ranks of streaming video services that let you cache shows and movies to watch offline when you’re on a plane or anywhere else your mobile device can’t get a connection. But not everybody is getting the feature right away: Starting Monday, downloads will be available to people …

Samsung’s being hit hard by a slowdown in tech. The company on Monday projected a 56% drop in third-quarter operating profit to about 7.7 trillion won ($6.4 billion). It also said its revenue slid 5.3% to 62 trillion won ($51.8 billion). Both amounts are slightly better than what analysts expected, according to Thomson Reuters, but they mark a sharp reversal …

This is part of CNET’s “Tech Enabled” series about the role technology plays in helping the disability community. When the Americans with Disabilities Act was passed in 1990, the internet wasn’t yet a critical part of our lives. We weren’t connected to it 24/7, and we didn’t rely on it to handle everyday tasks and provide a steady stream of information. …

President Donald Trump congratulated Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai in a tweet Monday citing last week’s federal court decision to uphold the agency’s net neutrality repeal. That repeal eliminated rules preventing broadband providers from blocking or slowing down access to websites or charging companies extra to deliver content faster.  Trump called the appeals court ruling a big win for the …

The US government is formally negotiating an agreement to share electronic evidence with Australia. If they reach a deal, the two nations will gain access to info stored by each other’s online service providers, US Attorney General William Barr and Australian Minister for Home Affairs Peter Dutton announced Monday. It comes after the US last week signed a similar pact …

Microsoft’s required Oct. 3 security update, which was meant to fix a bug affecting Internet Explorer and printing, has led to Windows users reporting even more problems. Most are pointing to troubles with the Start Menu, while others are seeing booting and printing errors.  Users complained across Microsoft’s Answers forum, Reddit, Neowin, BornCity, AskWoody, BleepingComputer, Techdows, and Windows Latest, according to …