You’ve probably heard the news: Microsoft will end its free Windows 10 promotion in just a few short months. And while Windows 10 isn’t for everyone, it’s pretty darn popular according to Microsoft, which reports that the new operating system is now active on more than 300 million devices around the world. Is your device …

Time flies, I can’t believe Pro-Ject Audio is 25 years old! Heinz Lichtenegger’s company now makes an assortment of terrific, mostly affordable turntables and compact, lifestyle friendly audiophile components. Pro-Ject is based in Austria and manufactures its designs throughout Europe. Enlarge Image A Pro-Ject 2Xperience SB turntable partnered with Box Design RS Line components. Gani Pinero Photography I recently met …

Google announced Wednesday that it’s banning ads for payday loans and other related products with crazy-high interest rates starting July 13. “We will no longer allow ads for loans where repayment is due within 60 days of the date of issue,” David Graff, Google’s director of global product policy, posted in a blog Monday. “In the U.S., we are also …

Back in early December, Senior Editor Scott Stein reviewed Apple’s Smart Battery Case for CNET. I was working on story about the “World’s Thinnest iPhone case” and asked Stein to lend me the case for comparison and noticed that it had held up pretty well over the last five months but showed some signs of wear (he uses the case …

This budget tablet is brought to you by the letters E, E, and J. That’s right, it’s the new Jay from mobile network EE. The tablet goes on sale today for £120. Or you can pay as little as £30 upfront if you sign up to a longer or more expensive contract, with a monthly fee that varies depending on …

Sure, Australia might still be the world leader when it comes to pirating Game of Thrones, but we’re also doing a pretty decent job of paying for it as well. Or at least that’s what it looks like thanks to the latest viewership figures from Foxtel. The pay TV service says that the premiere episode of season 6 managed to …

The Apple Watch won’t grace the wrist of the company’s former chief executive anytime soon. John Sculley, in a chat with financial news site TheStreet, said the timepiece didn’t have enough functionality to convince him to buy one, even though he owns every other Apple product, including the iPhone and iPad Pro. “I think the Apple Watch is beautiful, but …

In this golden age of television, it’s difficult to keep up with all of your shows, let alone discover new ones. There are so many TV channels and streaming services producing quality content that I have this constant feeling that I’m missing must-see TV. When a friend tells me about a show I should be watching, I need an app …

Making a good movie from your action-cam clips usually requires more than stringing together a few clips and adding music, which is why a lot of video goes unedited. It’s an issue even the category leader, GoPro, has acknowledged. According to a survey conducted by multimedia software maker Cyberlink with help from international market research firm YouGov, one in four …

Parents can now track all kinds of vitals and statistics for their newborns using new gadgets and apps. But is all that information necessary? For Roger’s welcome back episode following parental leave, we delve into our experiences using baby tech and how these devices can both help and scare parents. The 3:59 gives you bite-size news and analysis about the …

It won’t displace Google’s Chrome anytime soon as the most-used Web browser, but startup Vivaldi has won over a respectable chunk of users in its six months since launch. The company, based in Oslo, Norway, is a philosophical offshoot of the Opera browser. Opera came from the same city and, in part, from the same man, Jon von Tetzchner. After …

Oculus’ upcoming improvements to the Samsung Gear VR headset will happen step by step, not in one fell swoop. When you add up the plans, which Oculus shared with press at a small event in San Francisco earlier this week, you start getting a sense of where the company wants to take VR, both on the phone-based Gear VR and …

If you’ve always wanted to be a test pilot but you’re a little more Chuck E. Cheese than Chuck Yeager, Mozilla is here to help. The company wants you to join its Test Pilot scheme to test out experimental features in its Firefox browser, including arranging your tabs down the side of the screen. Announced in an official blog post, …

Deadpool is the kind of anti-superhero who puts the punch in punchlines. So it’s especially apt that he’s not only the subject of a parody video, but that he takes part in it as well. Honest Trailers — a YouTube series from Screen Junkies that features a classic movie-trailer voiceover but with a narrator who makes fun of films in …

Now playing: Watch this: The Cowa Robot is a smart suitcase that follows you 1:06 It doesn’t have multiple tiny feet or lots of big square teeth, nor is it made out of sapient pearwood, but Shanghai-based Cowa’s walking suitcase has already got lazy me falling in love with it. And you would too, once you realised you would almost …