After airing to an audience of 14.4 million viewers over Memorial Day weekend, A&E Networks is sending its remake of the classic miniseries “Roots” to Hulu. All episodes of the miniseries will stream exclusively on the service starting this fall, Hulu said in a release Tuesday. Based on Alex Haley’s 1976 novel “Roots: The Saga …

Now playing: Watch this: Napster is coming back! 1:24 You probably remember using Napster to get a lot of music about 15 years ago before the file-swapping service was essentially sued out of existence. The once-high-flying brand is about to be resurrected. Not as the peer-to-peer platform many used to (illegally, it turned out) build music libraries, but rather as …

T-Mobile on Tuesday announced another expansion of its “Binge On” program, which lets you stream music and video from select services without burning through your mobile data plan. The new arrivals include Azubu, Dailymotion Games, Eyegroove and PBS, which should come in handy if your kids like to watch “Sesame Street” in the backseat. It’s the sixth time T-Mobile has …

Apple iPads have had the ability to display picture-in-picture mode for video playback since the introduction of iOS 9, but Netflix was slow to add the feature to its app, until today. The streaming video service on Tuesday released version 8.7.0 in the iTunes store. The app can now minimize videos so you can watch them while multitasking on an …

It might make you feel like vomiting (a rainbow), but seeing more advertisements in between your snaps on the immensely popular messaging app Snapchat was basically an inevitability. Now, Snapchat’s making it official with Monday’s announcement of “Snapchat Partners,” a venture aimed at expanding advertising opportunities in the app. The focus for now, according to Adweek, is on Snapchat’s auto-advance …

This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. Apple is embracing its developers like never before. The Cupertino, California, company unveiled on Monday new ways for developers to tap into some of its key mobile apps — including Maps, Messages, Siri and even the Phone function — starting with the upcoming …

Fitness trackers remain the go-to device for people who want to monitor their health and activities, but smartwatches are starting to up their game. Among wearable owners who exercise, activity trackers are still more popular than smartwatches across most fitness-related categories, NPD Group said Monday. Their users are also more active, with 79 percent of activity tracker owners exercising regularly, …

Those of you shopping for a Fitbit fitness tracker can save a few dollars at Best Buy. Available both online and in Best Buy’s stores, all Fitbit Charge HR activity trackers are on sale, including in black, plum, blue, pink and tangerine and in both large and small sizes. For example, you can save $20 on the large pink version …

Some optical illusions require you to stare at them for a long time until you finally see something — like the brick wall illusion that made its way around the internet recently, and those Magic Eye puzzles that ruled American shopping malls back in the ’90s. (Never could see the sailboat. Lied every time. Then called it a day and …

If you let anyone ask you a question, be prepared for doozies. That’s probably how Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg shrugged off a tongue-in-cheek message from a fan who was watching his Tuesday question-and-answer forum on the social network’s live video service. “Are the allegations true that you’re secretly a lizard?” Zuck read. “I’m going to have to go with no. …

This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. Apple left us feeling a little meh on Monday. We discuss the highs and lows of Apple’s annual developers conference, which offered a wide array of minor improvements and new features. But for all the things announced, from a revamped Apple Music to …

This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. Vocally activating your phone, your watch, your car and your home is where the future is headed. And the question of who has the best “voice-triggered assistant” — or artificial intelligence platform — is an important one. Whoever does it best might not …

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This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. The Apple Watch is Apple’s most beleaguered product. It’s not fast enough. It’s not always intuitive. It’s not the best fitness tracker. But that might change very soon. And at Apple’s WWDC developers conference, the company wasted no time addressing all of the …

This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. Now playing: Watch this: Apple unveils iOS 10, packs it with new features 3:43 There are nearly 30 apps that come on every iPhone and iPad that can’t be uninstalled, but that may soon change. Apple on Monday released a developer preview of …