Whether you call it “immersive audio” or the more nebulous “object-based audio,” there is a new type of surround sound coming to a home theater near you. It’s designed to let you feel closer to the action than before with the help of height channels, which just like the name indicates, are speakers shooting sound …

Now playing: Watch this: Feeling ill? Apple Watch may diagnose you 1:16 An Apple HealthKit checkup a day could keep the doctor away. Apple Apple plans to turn HealthKit app bundle into a full-fledged diagnostic tool that interprets fitness and health data in order to offer medical advice, Bloomberg reported Monday. The tech giant has recruited a team of health …

Now playing: Watch this: Watch out, GoPro: Snapchat Spectacles could succeed where… 1:25 Did Snapchat just make camera glasses cool? The popular messaging app will be selling glasses that record point-of-view video clips to share on Snapchat. It’s a simple way to take hands-free video (uh oh, GoPro) without any of the annoying screen-above-your-eye complications of Google Glass. Meanwhile, Apple …

Now playing: Watch this: Roku releases five new TV streamers, and the cheapest… 2:16 Update: We’ve now published reviews of the $30 Roku Express and the $40 Express+. We’ll review the 4K Roku boxes soon. Roku just made choosing a new streaming player five times more difficult, and at least five bucks cheaper than the competition. The giant-killing company’s products …

Feeling a little guilty about those sumptuous gourmet meals (or even juicy burgers) you’ve been posting to Instagram? You can do a good deed by deleting one or more of them, thanks to a new charity campaign from US-based food company Land o’ Lakes. Enlarge Image Goodbye, In-N-Out Burger photo. You were deleted for a good cause. Gael Fashingbauer Cooper/CNET …

The first of four debates between Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton and Republican nominee Donald Trump will air tonight, but already punches are being thrown. Trump’s Snapchat geofilter. Courtesy of Robert Gottsegen On Monday, the Trump campaign rolled out a location-based Snapchat filter to tie in with tonight’s debate. The filter features a “Debate Day” header with a sub-header that reads …

If there’s smoke, there must be fire. In this case, the heat centers on a Twitter purchase as Walt Disney becomes the latest company rumored to eye the stagnating microblogging service, according Bloomberg News. The report Monday follows CNBC’s story last week that several tech companies, including Google and Salesforce, would soon make formal bids for Twitter. Disney’s interest stems …

You want to listen to music or watch a video, so you reach for your favorite headphones. But then you abruptly remember: there is no headphone jack on the iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus and your 3.5mm adapter is nowhere in sight. Without going fully wireless or grabbing a pair of Lightning-compatible headphones, you’ll have to get used to …

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Amazon is adding a whole bunch of movies in October. All four “Lethal Weapon” films start streaming on Prime. They join six “Pink Panther” movies, which if you didn’t know, do not star a cartoon panther who installs insulation. Several cult favorites join Prime in October. “The Warriors,” “Troll 2,” and a couple of “Sleepaway Camp” movies arrive on Amazon. …

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 house-branded phone by the end …

Predictably, the first debate for the 2016 presidential election generated a lot of tweets supporting and criticizing things spoken by the two candidates. One of the hottest was one that claimed that Republican nominee Donald Trump was deleting tweets during the debate. A Twitter user named Juan Vidal, who claimed to be a writer and book critic for NPR, published …

Monday night’s presidential debate was bound to inspire parody Twitter accounts, like those seen before with other major events. Remember all the Angelina Jolie’s leg accounts when the actress jutted out her limb during the 2012 Oscars? And the first satirical Twitter account to pop up was also body related. Debate-watchers noting presidential candidate Donald Trump sniffing often while speaking …

Google may finally be bringing together the worlds of Android and Chrome OS. The search giant plans to release a laptop and tablet powered by a new operating system, called Andromeda, which merges Android and Chrome OS, according to reports Monday in 9to5Google and Android Police. Google has been hinting at a combined OS for years, with earlier reports pointing …

Want to tune in to the most highly anticipated presidential debate in a generation, where the first female major-party nominee faces off against a real estate developer and reality TV star? Or maybe you’d rather watch football. Now you can get both, for free. Sling TV, the Internet-delivered live TV service, is making its basic Sling Orange package available free …