Now playing: Watch this: How to choose your next iPad 2:18 iPads come in a lot of flavors now: Small, bigger, bigger and better, and super-big. Yes, there are a full five models shoppers can now choose from, including models launched as long ago as October 2013 and as recently as March 2016. Should you …

Phones and smartwatches may be getting more alike these days, but for Google Nexus 6P-maker Huawei, the fact that its products are getting good is the best news of all. It means that for the first time in the six years I’ve been covering the company, Huawei stands a real chance. To do what? To make money, certainly. To improve …

After unboxing the new LG G5 and setting it up, you should take a few moments to familiarize yourself with some of its features and capabilities. The more you poke and prod around its settings and apps, the more you’ll discover and be able to better customize the device to your liking. Below are five features that will help you …

Now playing: Watch this: Building a PC? 5 rookie mistakes — and how to fix them 1:10 It’s never been easier to build a computer. Parts just plug right in, most drivers install themselves, and the components you need for a stellar desktop PC are cheaper than ever. Heck, you can build a killer VR gaming rig for under $1,000. …

Over the years the headphone plug or connector on Bose’s headphones has changed, going from L-shaped to straight. In the headphone world, the conventional wisdom once was that a L-shaped plug was typically more durable. Also, the stubbier L-shaped design took a blow or tug better, putting less stress on a device’s headphone jack. We talked with Sean Garrett, Bose’s …

Freaked out by Facebook trying to fill the skies with colossal drones beaming the Internet at you? The social network giant offered two more down-to-earth technologies on Wednesday to dramatically improve network access across the world. Terragraph uses high-frequency radio waves to speed up networks where populations are dense. And ARIES aims to replace the slow wireless data service that …

Donald Trump may be a Facebook fan, but it’s a pretty good guess that he’s not liking Mark Zuckerberg’s most recent posts. Facebook’s CEO kicked off the company’s F8 developer conference Tuesday with a thinly veiled shot at the front-runner for the Republican Party’s presidential nomination. He followed that with a post on his social network, saying that his presentation …

With a host of new players in the online groceries game, Walmart will need to speed up its services if it wants to keep up with the Internet. To that end, the big-box retailer said Wednesday it will introduce its grocery drive-up service to eight more US markets this month: Kansas City; Boise, Idaho; Richmond and Virginia Beach, Virginia; Austin, …

Windows 10 users who dread the “blue screen of death” could one day find it helpful, if news of an upcoming feature turns out to be correct. An unloved staple in Windows for years, the blue screen of death can pop up whenever some type of hardware or software problem, such as a memory conflict or a bad driver, causes …

Want to make those polished, eye-catching graphics-and-text images you see on sites like Twitter, Instagram and Facebook? Adobe Systems’ Post app for iPhone and iPad has fresher imagery and new tools for whipping them up. Tuesday’s Adobe Post 2.5 release lets the company inject new imagery into the app whenever it wants to keep you from getting stuck with stale …

Compared to last year’s NAB show where Adobe announced some really innovative new tools, this year’s NAB updates for the video applications in Creative Cloud are more yawn and less “yay!” That doesn’t mean there aren’t important workflow enhancements that will make day-to-day production easier; there are. There’s just nothing particularly glamorous about filling essential holes in the feature set …

I spent the day at an analyst summit in Shenzhen, China. The company: Huawei, which invited me along for a chance to interview some executives and learn more about the world’s third-largest phone brand. The objective: get to know how the maker of gadgets and networking equipment is doing. As the presentations droned on, it dawned on me that, while …

Need to use your Android phone but your hands are tied up? A new voice feature from Google can help. Voice Access, currently in beta status, allows you to move around the screen, jump to other screens and open apps through your voice. You can utter specific commands, such as “Open Chrome” or “Go home.” Voice Access also places numbers …

Enlarge Image The Twist 60 has a conventional Lensbaby design. Lensbaby The barons of bokeh look to the past for their latest lens, the Lensbaby Twist 60. It reproduces the idiosyncratic characteristics of the Petzval lens, which renders out-of-focus areas with a lot of curvature. Unlike the other resurrection of the Petzval lens from Lomography, Lensbaby’s has a more conventional …

Rumors of Sherilyn Fenn reprising her role as the quirky and captivating Audrey Horne in director David Lynch’s “Twin Peaks” revival series appear to be confirmed. On Monday, Fenn tweeted a current photo of herself dressed as Horne with the message “Audrey Horne Lives,” followed by three cherry emojis. Her tweet has since been removed from Twitter. It’s possible that …