Attention, Jack Black fans: The actor is “alive and well” despite a tweet claiming he had passed to the great beyond. Black was one of several celebrities caught in a hoax in which Twitter accounts of famous peeps were compromised. Other celebrities whose accounts were taken over included musician Keith Richards and Facebook CEO Mark …

T-Mobile offered up a thank you note in the form of another Un-carrier event. The company, the third-largest wireless carrier in the US, introduced a customer-appreciation program that offer you freebies such as pizza and free movie rentals through a T-Mobile Tuesday app. As the name suggests, you get rewards every Tuesday. The company teases “epic prizes” from new brands …

Many of you will remember Verizon’s “Can you hear me now?” campaign. You know, the one that featured a horn-rimmed glasses-sporting “Test Man” asking the now-oft-repeated question. Well, the “Test Man” is back, and seeing yellow. Actor Paul Marcarelli, who spent a decade touting Verizon’s network quality, is rival Sprint’s newest pitchman. “I’ve watched with fascination as each of the …

Citizens of Middletown, New Jersey, get ready for a new kind of home Internet service. AT&T said on Monday that Middletown will join Austin, Texas, as the two locations for using 5G wireless technology as a home broadband service, scheduled for the end of summer. The nation’s second largest wireless carrier said early tests with equipment partner Ericsson have yielded …

Bose is going all in on wireless headphones, and you’re probably going to want all four of its new models, though you may not be able to afford them all. The QuietComfort 35, the company’s much-anticipated around-ear Bluetooth noise-canceling headphone and the SoundSport Wireless, an-ear Bluetooth sports headphone, are available now. However, the SoundSport Pulse Wireless, which features an integrated …

Optus has announced an early-bird deal for customers streaming the upcoming English Premier League season, dropping the AU$15 fee for customers on entry-level plans and making access free across the board. Optus nabbed the exclusive live EPL rights from Foxtel last year in a major coup that marked the company’s transition from telco into a more diversified media company. But …

These days, there’s a menu bar application for just about anything you can imagine — checking Product Hunt, locking yourself out of all the distracting applications on your computer and even time tracking for work. When you need to quickly tweak settings or check the status of your Mac, the menu bar is usually the best place to do it. …

When CNET editor Ty Pendlebury told me to check out the Reference 3A MM de Capo BE speakers at the Park Avenue Audio showroom, I knew something was up. The store is just a block away from the office in NYC, so I figured why not? He knows what I like, and if anything Ty underplayed how good these speakers …

I reviewed the original AudioQuest DragonFly USB digital converter back in 2012, so I was eager to check out a couple of the latest DragonFlys, the Black ($99, £89, AU$160) and the Red ($199, £169, AU$320). The Black looks pretty much like the older DragonFly, but the Red is finished in snazzy red metallic paint. Enlarge Image From left to …

The death of Muhammad Ali, boxing’s poet laureate, prompted a blanket of elegies on the Internet on Saturday, as everyone from fellow fighters to heads of state took to social media in celebration and remembrance of Ali’s life. Ali — whose uncompromising moral stances, brash and stylish way with words, and three heavyweight championships made him one of the most …

Battleship Island. It’s a fantastic name for an unbelievable place. A place unlike any in the world. A tiny island, once home to 5,259 people with the highest population density in history, abruptly abandoned and left to the elements for decades. The result is haunting and fascinating. If you’ve played any of the recent installments in of the post-apocalyptic Fallout …

Critics of the Federal Communications Commission’s proposal to regulate Internet privacy argue the agency’s new rules will confuse consumers and ultimately lead to higher prices. CNET/Marguerite Reardon That’s the message from many of those who filed more than 45,000 public comments in reaction to the proposal, which was introduced in March and would require broadband and wireless companies to get …

Uber’s food delivery service may be headed to the UK. The UberEats service lets customers order meals from local restaurants via an app. California-based Uber is currently recruiting bicycle and scooter drivers in London ahead of an expected UK launch, according to a report in BuzzFeed. The app is currently up and running in 16 cities around the world, including …

The iPhone 6S is made of metal and glass — mostly glass. So it’s probably only a matter of time before you drop it on the concrete and end up with a shattered screen (unless you happen to be rocking an ultra-protective Ballistic case, or something). Assuming you don’t have month-to-month phone insurance, what do you do now? Here are …

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