A year after its official release, Windows 10 is on just one in five desktop computers, according to Web traffic stats from researcher NetMarketShare. Windows 10 captured 21.1 percent of the desktop OS market for July, NetMarketShare reported, up from 19.1 percent in June and 17.4 percent in May. The growth remained slow and steady …

Those of us who don’t have pro photographers following us around snapping portraits from the most flattering angles often rely on shots taken via awkwardly placed selfie arm. But camera proximity can make your nose look bigger, your ears look smaller and your forehead look more slope-ey. Didn’t realize selfies could do all that? Happy Monday! Enlarge Image Princeton School …

Google on Monday announced a new Android feature that alerts users of new devices and security events on their account via onscreen notifications. When a new device is added to a user’s account, native Android notifications — those that appear on the mobile device’ screen — will tell the user about the newly added device. The notifications will also alert …

“The Simpsons” has never been shy about making fun of American politics. Several presidents have been Simpsons-fied on the long-running animated comedy series. Bill Clinton, famously, was always hitting on Marge. George H.W. Bush was a neighbor for a while. As the 2016 race for the US presidency increasingly resembles a “Simpsons” episode, it was perhaps inevitable that the animated …

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A new update to Microsoft’s Windows 10 is coming, but you’re forgiven if you didn’t know. It turns out not many people are going to tell you. Admittedly, there’s not much to talk about. The list of refinements for Microsoft’s free paper-anniversary update to Win 10 can fit on a small sheet with about a dozen bullet points. The changes …

Here in New York City, noise-canceling headphones are as important as comfortable walking shoes. I throw a set in my bag every morning to fight the sound of shrilly subway trains, noisy construction crews and that saxophone busker guy who always manages to find my subway car. Muting the world might sound like bliss, but to walk around a busy …

For my taste, the Woo Audio WA7tp Fireflies headphone amplifier is the best looking component of this century. I mean that, pictures don’t do it full justice. The metal and glass design on my desktop is a sight to behold, and I thought so when I reviewed the original WA7 in 2013, the updated model I’m reviewing here today debuted …

It’s hard to top the greatest food convenience since sliced bread, but the Le Bread Xpress vending machine might be it. Dispensing warm baguettes from a machine, Le Bread Xpress wants to make sure hungry clients can grab their favorite French staple whenever their hearts desire. The loafs are partially cooked when they are loaded into the machine, then completely …

For some geeky fans who attended San Diego Comic-Con this year, the withdrawal symptoms afterwards can be downright painful. Who wants to sit in a boring office meeting when you’d rather be attending a panel on “The Walking Dead” while dressed as a zombie? The real world is downright dull when you’re not dressed up as Superman while eating a …

We’re looking at the big picture, this is a how to buy an audio system that best suits your needs. So while I’m not going to recommend specific products, I’ll set you on a course of action. Step 1: Think. What room in your home do you want to listen to music or watch movies? True, most folks may have …

BlackBerry is pretty proud of its new phone, the DTEK50. But it’s less a BlackBerry phone than any BlackBerry phone that’s ever come before. That’s because it’s practically a carbon copy of a different company’s smartphone: the Alcatel OneTouch Idol 4. We’d known for weeks that the two phones might share a manufacturer: according to FCC and Wi-Fi Alliance certification …

What did you do on your summer vacation? I went to the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia. All right, so it wasn’t exactly a vacation. I live in a nearby suburb of Philadelphia and I was working 14 hours a day throughout the week, getting home well past midnight each evening. But for a reporter who’s covered technology for more …

The creepy-yet-endearing Netflix series “Stranger Things” — which debuted July 15 — is a kind of throwback to ’80s creature features like “Evil Dead” and “Alien” as well as the kid-centric adventure films “The Goonies” and “E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial.” So when game designer Jacob Janerka decided to celebrate the series with retro video game art, it felt like the perfect …

This is what the upcoming GoPro Karma drone looks like, according to self-proclaimed “GoPro addict” Konrad Iturbe. The teenaged Madrid resident tweeted the photo earlier this week, snagging it from the GoPro subreddit where it had been posted earlier. The original post and the user were subsequently deleted, Iturbe told CNET in an email exchange. As Mashable’s Raymond Wong points …