Can a smartphone really cost the same as a cup of coffee? An Indian company is betting all its money on it. After raising eyebrows around the world earlier this year, Indian smartphone company Ringing Bells has announced that it will begin shipping its suspiciously cheap Freedom 251 phone from June 30. The announcement follows …

Roku entered the Windows 10 era yesterday by releasing a new remote control app for laptops and tablets. The app, which is now available for free in the US from the Windows Store, gives users a new homepage design and the usual slate of features for the streaming set-top box. You’ll be able to select channels, search for content, play …

New York-based registered nurse and food artist Katherine Dey crafts the kind of shockingly realistic cakes that make you wonder if seeing really is believing. In the past she’s designed gruesome cakes such as a brain with its stem attached, an anatomically-correct heart, a human head, a sleeping baby and a lamprey. Related stories Bake a realistic Star Wars BB-8 …

CNET’s Cheapskate scours the Web for great deals on PCs, phones, gadgets and much more. Questions about the Cheapskate blog? Find the answers on our FAQ page. And find more great buys on the CNET Deals page. As a die-hard Flight of the Conchords fan (just saw them in concert last week — woo!) I cannot see the word “Boom” …

Traveling is a hassle — especially if you’re attempting to travel and work at the same time. Luckily, my favorite automation service IFTTT — “IF This, Then That” — can help automate some of the work travel tasks we all face to make trips run smoother. IFTTT connects services and apps, allowing you to create if/then recipes that will automatically …

Once you get the hang of it, automation service IFTTT (which stands for “If This, Then That”) is incredibly convenient. There’s nothing quite like automating stupid little everyday tasks — such as turning off the lights at a specific time, or cross-posting Facebook posts to multiple social networks — to help you reclaim your valuable time and sanity. And the …

If you’ve ever stopped yourself from taking a picture with your iPhone because you didn’t have enough free storage space, this is for you. SanDisk just released an iPhone case that delivers an extra 32GB, 64GB or 126GB of storage. Unfortunately, it only works with the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6S. The iXpand Memory Case, made of a hard plastic …

Now playing: Watch this: How to lose friends on Instagram 2:11 With so many fun filters and editing tools, it’s easy to get carried away on Instagram. And while most of our “gramming” habits are harmless, too many of these may end up costing you friends. 1. Insta-lying We’re probably all guilty of staging a photo once in a while …

Now playing: Watch this: YouTube brings live streaming to its mobile apps 1:40 YouTube has streamed live video since 2011. However, you’d have to use your computer to broadcast. That’s changing with the introduction of live streaming to YouTube’s mobile apps. Not to be outdone by YouTube, Facebook announced some new features are headed to Facebook Live including Snapchat-like filters. …

If you like the idea of following the misadventures of an alcoholic scientist and his easily-manipulated grandson as they haphazardly travel through parallel universes, then you’ll love the Adult Swim animated comedy series “Rick & Morty.” On the latest episode of the show “DIY Prop Shop,” do-it-yourself host Odin Abbott shows viewers how to make Rick’s Portal Gun, for around …

YouTube Red is reportedly shelling out the green for its first big-budget, Hollywood-produced television drama. The online video giant’s paid subscription service has snagged a scripted series based on “Step Up,” a 2006 dance movie that kickstarted actor Channing Tatum’s career, the New York Times reported on Thursday. Under the deal, Lionsgate will produce 10 episodes of the show, running …

Nextbit made waves last year with a phone that used the cloud to radically bolster the amount of movies and apps you could store on its Robin phone. The startup now believes it can use some of those same capabilities to extend its battery life too. The company, which funded Robin through Kickstarter last year, said it will use software …

Google Docs is packed with powerful tools. Here are 10 that will help you get more out of Google’s free word-processing app. Talk instead of type For times when you’d rather use your voice than your fingertips to type, give Google Docs’ voice typing tool a try. From the top of an open document, go to Tools > Voice typing. …

So long, Scanner Pro. My previous workflow for scanning documents on my iPhone or iPad was to use the Scanner Pro app to scan and then use Dropbox to share them or move them to my computer. With Dropbox adding document scanning to its iOS app, I can streamline my scanning operations. To scan a document using the updated Dropbox …

Attention, Walmart customers: You can now use Walmart Pay in a host of additional states. On Thursday, the retail giant announced the expansion of its mobile payments service to Michigan, Virginia, the Carolinas, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota and Tennessee. Like other mobile payment services, Walmart Pay lets you use your smartphone to purchase goods on the …