This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. Now playing: Watch this: What to expect at Apple’s WWDC 2016 2:47 “Hey Siri: What’s up with Apple?” Apple’s annual weeklong Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) kicks off June 13 in San Francisco with the standard big press conference. …

This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. To hold its own against digital assistants from Google, Microsoft and Amazon, Siri needs an IQ boost. Last month, Google took the stage in Mountain View, California, to show off improvements to its digital voice assistant. Its signature ability is to have a …

When you go clothes shopping, do you ever find yourself staring into a mannequin’s eyes and wondering what’s inside? The father and son who host YouTube series “What’s Inside?” did, so they bought a male mannequin to cut open. Related stories Sphero BB-8 teardown reveals its robot tech inside the rolling ‘Star Wars’ droid Cracking Open: Apple Pencil is powered …

Now playing: Watch this: 20 years of Alienware: Origin Story 6:00 Imagine it’s 1996, and you just finished watching FBI Special Agent Fox Mulder break out of a Russian gulag in his search for the truth about aliens, government conspiracies and the paranormal. Nelson Gonzalez couldn’t get enough of TV shows like “The X-Files,” “Star Trek,” “The Outer Limits” and …

Bluetooth, the wireless standard that’s widely used to link fitness trackers to mobile phones and wireless keyboards to computers, will become more powerful in its next incarnation, the industry group developing the technology plans to announce Wednesday. “Bluetooth 5 has a lot to offer,” said Mark Powell, executive director of the Bluetooth Special Interest Group, in a June newsletter. Specifically, …

Amazon plans to give anyone the option of subscribing to its Prime Music streaming service for $9.99 a month, according to a report by Reuters. That would put Prime Music in direct competition with streaming services like Spotify and Apple Music, which also charge about $10 a month for unlimited access to a trove of millions of songs. However, Prime …

Ask any gamer out there about playing games on a PC, and they’ll tell you about Alienware. The Miami-based company has been building gaming PCs for 20 years. It’s become one of the most recognizable computer brands out there thanks to its alien-head logo, with glowing eyes peering out, that’s emblazoned on its other-worldly looking computers. One of its most …

Google’s Chromecast is due for a victory lap, after its shipments nearly doubled those of upscale rival Apple TV earlier this year, researcher IHS said Friday. In the first three months of 2016, Google shipped 3.2 million Chromecasts to market versus the 1.7 million Apple TVs shipped in the same period, according to IHS. Before that, Apple had always beat …

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If your brain, like mine, is already stuffed to the gills with passwords, then the prospect of using one single sign-on to get into your paid streaming TV apps will come as sweet relief. People who pay for TV from cable companies Comcast, Cox and MediaCom will soon see a new standard, called TV Everywhere (TVE), which will use their …

The next iPhone may have Intel inside. Some versions of Apple’s next flagship phone will stock an Intel wireless chip rather than a Qualcomm processor, according to a report from Bloomberg News. China’s iPhones would keep their Qualcomm chips, as would Verizon models in the US, according to Bloomberg’s source. The AT&T devices in the US would use an Intel …

Now playing: Watch this: How to make your laptop battery last longer 1:24 My aging MacBook Pro doesn’t hold a charge like it once did. That’s not surprising, since it’s nearly five years old and batteries tend to lose their capacity over time. And the less time my MacBook’s battery lasts, the more I fear I’ll wake up one morning …

Lenovo is making more VR-related products than simply the Tango phone. One of them is a live-streaming, 360-degree camera. The camera had been expected to be unveiled at Lenovo Tech World 16 in San Francisco this week, but it wasn’t. However, a Lenovo executive discussed its efforts with VR-focused site UploadVR. The camera uses Movidius Myriad 2 processors and can …

This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. Apple’s iMessage is available today only on Apple products like iPhones and Macs, but the company could bring its encrypted messaging service to phones powered by Google’s Android software, according to a report Thursday. The company plans to announce the move at its …

The geeks are putting up the velvet rope. Geek-culture media brands Nerdist and Geek & Sundry plan to launch a paid membership service this year that mixes exclusive video and other content with perks such as merchandise discounts, access to offline events and the ability to essentially video-conference into a live show with the programs’ stars. Their free content will …