Xiaomi will soon launch another super cheap activity tracker. Due to reach Chinese consumers on June 7, the new $23 Mi Band 2 fitness tracker comes with an OLED display, which Xiaomi touts as resistant to scratches and fingerprints and bright enough to be seen under direct sunlight. The display shows you the time, your …

School’s out for the summer…which means it’s already time to start thinking about back-to-school shopping. At least there’s a good chance you’ll net some headphones if you’re buying something from Apple. Apple’s new back-to-school offers have gone live, and like always, students can get some modest savings on MacBooks, iPads and iPhones. Apple’s also giving away Beats headphones with certain …

Silicon Valley billionaires with unprecedented power need to get used to the discomfort of press scrutiny, Gawker Media owner Nick Denton said Thursday. Gawker, a digital news organization, is fighting a devastating $140 million verdict in a case that was secretly funded by Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel. “A Silicon Valley billionaire is a hundred times, a thousand times more …

Virtual reality was the talk of the show floor at Computex in Taiwan this year. HTC was showing off three slick new VR experiences for its Vive headset, Microsoft was talking up the future of Windows Holographic, and we saw plenty of new VR headsets and even VR-friendly backpacks. But it wouldn’t be a trade show smack bang in the …

The years-long Apple-Samsung patent battle just keeps on going. With Samsung filing its opening briefs in the tech titans’ case before the US Supreme Court, we weigh whether the justices will finally help bring some resolution to this patent dispute. The Supreme Court in March agreed to review the case, marking the first time it has looked at a design …

Move over, iPad, Amazon now has the best selling tablet in the US. According to Amazon, the company’s dirt-cheap Fire tablet ($50, £50) is not only the top-selling tablet in the US for the first quarter of 2016, but it just became Amazon’s best-selling tablet of all time. As always, Amazon declined to share specific sales numbers, but Senior Manager …

Now playing: Watch this: Take control of Facebook’s targeted ads 1:16 Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Facebook is now using your Facebook ad preferences — your information, interests and browsing history — to show you targeted ads both on and off of Facebook. And for those of you patting yourself on the back for staying off Facebook, not so fast — Facebook …

The Galaxy TabPro S is a super-fast tablet with a detachable keyboard. That you know. Here are some features you may not know about that can get you off to a great start with your new electronic friend. Samsung Flow Did you know you can connect your TabPro S with your Galaxy smartphone with Samsung Flow? Once you’ve connected the …

Wireless charging company WiTricity may not be a household name, but that could change once Dell laptops start launching with its technology. Dell laptops that started charging wirelessly the moment they were placed on a charging mat made an appearance at WiTricity’s show suite at Computex 2016 here in Taipei. WiTricity declined to comment on when these Dell laptops will …

Now playing: Watch this: HTC Vive at Computex features three slick new VR experiences 2:05 If you’re making a virtual reality shooter game, how do you solve the problem of movement? After all, most FPS titles are literally ‘run and gun’ gameplay so how do you build a VR shooter when people are tethered both by cables and the reach …

I really wanted the demon to possess me. I can’t resist those YouTube jump-scare videos of placid roads where suddenly a creepy corpse leaps out, and I liven up my errands by listening to the Reddit NoSleep podcast in the car. In short, I like being (safely) scared. But sadly, the much-touted interactive online trailer for Cinemax’s new horror TV …

Now playing: Watch this: Snapchat bigger than Twitter says report 1:24 Roughly 150 million people use Snapchat each day, making the messaging app more popular than Twitter, according to a Bloomberg report Thursday. Twitter, by comparison, is estimated to have less than 140 million active daily users, the report said. Bloomberg used an average of analysts’ estimates to make the …

Ever since Google introduced Now on Tap as part of the Android Marshmallow update last year, we’ve been hoping for more suggestions as you work in other apps. We got a little of that yesterday when Google added text and image search to its personal assistant feature. With text, users can select specific words or phrases to get a definition …

New York City still had a lot of record stores — big chain outlets and small neighborhood shops — as recently as 10 years ago. One by one they dropped out, but now that Other Music is counting down to its last day on June 25, the news has hit me hard. Other Music is my favorite store, and I …

If you could somehow take a sample of the genetic material of every US president going back to George Washington and use it to create a hybrid of all 44 men, what would he look like? Seattle marketing outfit Rise Digital decided to do a little experiment to answer this burning question by feeding every presidential portrait into facial-morphing software …