Wireless companies continually offer great deals designed to entice you to their service. Just watch out for pitfalls that could make you regret leaving your current carrier. Dear Maggie, I’m tired of paying sky-high prices for wireless service from my carrier. I’m thinking of switching to a less expensive service from a different company. But …

Headphones and speakers present sound in very different ways: speakers “play” the room, headphones “play” your ears. To clarify, when you’re listening to speakers, more sound is reflected off the floor, walls, and ceiling than there is direct sound coming from the speakers. Which means your room’s acoustics have a major effect on the sound, and no matter how good …

Now playing: Watch this: Google Now, Siri and Cortana — who sounds more human? 3:30 Google recently upgraded the voice of Google Now to make it sound a bit less robotic and results are certainly noticeable. But we wanted to know, of the top three personal assistants, which one sounds the best? Despite efforts to make them sound human, Google …

As part of a 19-day trip to explore and experience tech in seven cities in Asia, I joined a small group of journalists to tour a factory where Huawei makes its phones. It’s fascinating stuff, but highly proprietary — so I’m not allowed to say much. Here’s what I can share without spilling any secrets. 1. You get to suit …

The Oculus Rift and HTC Vive aren’t as different as you’d think. Both top-tier VR headsets use a pair of lenses to magnify a pair of screens that display images from similarly powerful gaming PCs. And now, you can play games designed for the Oculus Rift on the HTC Vive, too — even games that were supposedly exclusive to the …

You could almost feel the panic spreading across the land. Adam Aron, CEO of theater chain AMC Theatres, sat down for an interview with Variety this week. The conversation turned to millennials and how to appeal to them. Aron said he’d be open to allowing people to use cellphones or to text during movies. A lot of film-goers, however, were …

Simply by adding a checkbox, Google has made storage and photography services on the cloud vastly more useful. The checkbox opens the ability to pick which folders on the Internet-based file system called Google Drive are synchronized to your Mac or Windows PC. The change, announced Thursday, may sound minor on the surface. But for me, it’s a profound transformation. …

In the immaculately appointed Club Room at the upper-crust Soho Grand Hotel in Manhattan, the luxury clothing e-retailer Moda Operandi was holding the first trunk show of its kind. There, amid the brown leather couches and low-lit Edison bulb chandeliers, the small boutique seller presented cotton wrap tops and ruffle trench coats from the brand Tome with a little help …

How does Israel’s version of MIT tell the Passover story? With a high-tech light show, of course. The eight-day holiday, which commemorates the Jews’ liberation from slavery in ancient Egypt, begins next Friday. Technion – Israel Institute of Technology posted a video to YouTube and Facebook Wednesday that tells the basics of the story with motion-gesture graphics and other special …

I’m fascinated by food: not just cooking ingredients and techniques, but also what people eat when they aren’t giving the act a second thought, the way I might reheat leftovers for lunch or run down the street for a quick burrito. Click to read more of Jessica’s travel adventures. It’s why I go out of my way to pop into …

While Android was initially a little slower to make emojis as commonplace as Apple, that doesn’t mean you can’t be part of the cool crowd if you’re not an iPhone user. An important note that could save your social life: Emojis can look really, really different on different phones. Strange, even. This Mental Floss article shows you how emojis appear …

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. Today’s deal falls into rerun territory, but it’s a better bundle with a lower price than last time. Let’s see an old “Seinfeld” …

Buy a few items via Android Pay and you can pick up some extra data — if you’re a Verizon customer. The deal works as follows, according to Verizon. Shop at a retailer that accepts Android Pay. Tap your phone to pay for your item, and you’ll get 1 gigabyte of free data. On your third tap, or third purchased …

iPhone users have apparently been hit by yet another bug. Released on March 31 as the latest update to Apple’s mobile operating system, iOS 9.3.1 was designed to fix a glitch that caused the Safari browser, Mail and other apps to freeze or crash when you tap on a link. But after the update rolled out, users of the brand-new …

Minecraft is already a hit at schools. Now Microsoft plans to release a version of its blocky video game tailored for education. A hundred schools will start testing Minecraft Education Edition in May, but more can get it in June when a free early-access program begins, Microsoft and its Mojang game studio said Thursday. Microsoft didn’t reveal how much the …