Optus is giving customers the English Premier League 2016/17 season, live and unmetered, all for roughly the same price as a monthly streaming subscription. The telco today announced plans for the EPL rights it picked up late last year, offering access for AU$15 a month on cheaper plans, and for free on mobile and home …

Windows 10 didn’t entice many new users last month, a new report shows. Microsoft’s current OS grabbed a 14.35 percent slice of all Web traffic in April, according to Web tracker Net Market Share. That number showed almost no growth from the 14.15 percent in March and followed several months of relatively healthy gains. Whether this is a temporary blip …

WhatsApp, the Facebook-owned texting app, is going dark for a few days in Brazil. A judge ordered the blackout after the company failed to comply with a court order asking WhatsApp to turn over data tied to a criminal investigation. The story was first reported by local newspaper Folha de S.Paulo. This isn’t the first time WhatsApp, which Facebook bought …

For years, mystery has shrouded the true identity of the creator of the electronic currency called Bitcoin. The person has been known only as Satoshi Nakamoto. Now, Australian businessman Craig Wright claims it’s him. In interviews published Monday with the BBC, GQ and the Economist, along with a blog post of his own, Wright said he is Nakamoto and offered …

I’m pretty sure that my afternoon with some Asian elephants of northern Thailand was a highlight of my life — it certainly was an unforgettable part of my 19-day tech tour of Asia. Click to read more of Jessica’s tech travels in Asia! Mark Hobbs/CNET Like most creatures, these elephants are astounding and surprising in their own way, and being …

In 2006, Thom Yorke, lead singer of the English rock band Radiohead, released a solo album called “The Eraser.” In 2016, Yorke has apparently erased his band’s presence from the Internet. On Sunday, fans began noticing the posts on the band’s Twitter and Facebook pages were deleted. The quintet’s official website, Radiohead.com, leads to a blank white page. Yorke’s personal …

Twitter can’t say as much as it wants to about data requests it gets from the government, at least for now. A U.S. judge on Monday partly dismissed a lawsuit filed by Twitter that argues the social media company should be able to disclose more details about information the government asks for, according to a report by Reuters. U.S. District …

Former wrestler and current acting superstar Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson gets up at 4 a.m. every day, works out and conquers the world. He doesn’t smack the snooze button only to slither into the kitchen an hour later for a cup of coffee like a mere puddle of a person. Now he wants to share a little slice of his …

CNET’s Cheapskate scours the Web for great deals on PCs, phones, gadgets and much more. Questions about the Cheapskate blog? Find the answers on our FAQ page. And find more great buys on the CNET Deals page. Remember the Chromebook Pixel? Hard to believe it’s been three full years since Google’s super-lux laptop made its debut. Of course, it was …

Other smart contact lenses are focused on improving vision or providing an augmented reality HUD, but Sony wants to look outwards rather than in. A new patent, awarded to the company in April, describes a contact lens that can be controlled by the user’s deliberate blinks, recording video on request. Sensors embedded in the lens are able to detect the …

Watch out Microsoft. Google has stolen first place in the browser arena. For the month of April, Google Chrome took home a 41.6 percent share of all desktop browser traffic picked up by Web tracker Net Market Share, up from 39 percent in March. Over the same time, Internet Explorer’s share dropped to 41.3 percent from 43.4 percent. This marks …

Vimeo said Monday it will acquire over-the-top video platform VHX in an aim to boost its video-on-demand business. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. VHX enables video creators to sell their own content online and currently offers over 100 VOD channels, according to Variety. Vimeo said the acquisition will bolster its streaming options for individual creators and major media …

When CNET opened its San Francisco offices for its first VR day, more than 1,000 readers signed up to try out this new technology. Now Oculus, one of the leading makers of virtual-reality headsets, which Facebook bought for $2 billion, is working with Best Buy to offer demonstrations to customers at its stores starting May 7. The company said it …

The company behind the stylish and striking Star Wars shoes we told you about in November has escaped the dark side only to tumble down the rabbit hole. British shoe company Irregular Choice has introduced an Alice in Wonderland shoe line, just in time for the release of “Alice Through the Looking Glass,” the upcoming Johnny Depp sequel to 2010’s …

LG Innotek has invented a fingerprint sensor embedded in the glass screen of a smartphone which could help enable future button-less designs. Previous fingerprint reader designs have required a separate piece of hardware — as seen on recent Apple iPhones, Samsung Galaxy phones, the Nexus 6P and LG’s own G5, to name just a few. But the new reader from …