Last October, Sharp became the first electronics company to release an 8K television set, selling the 85-inch monitor for around $140,000 (¥16 million). Those who bought that TV, or one of the few other sets on the market, will finally have something to watch in the 7,680×4,320-pixel 8K resolution come August. The Olympics Broadcasting Services …

Free movies are hard to argue with. TubiTV has some titles worth checking out in March. First up, “Dances with Wolves.” The lead is played by the man better known as Superman’s Earth Dad from “Man of Steel,” Kevin Costner. The director is better known as the director of “The Postman,” Kevin Costner. In all fairness, “Dances with Wolves” happened …

Last month, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg had his hopes of connecting India dashed when Free Basics, a plan offering free access to selected websites and apps, was banned by the country’s regulators. Now, Google is stepping up to the plate to connect rural India. Rajan Anandan, Google’s managing director for India, told the Economic Times that Google has been in …

As Twitter is wont to do, the microblogging network became a de facto town square Sunday as politicians, personalities and every day folk shared their thoughts and memories of former First Lady Nancy Reagan. Reagan, perhaps most famous for her “Just Say No” anti-drug abuse campaign, died Sunday morning at her home in Los Angeles of congestive heart failure. She …

Mark is an old friend, and as I recall he was quicker than most of my audiophile pals to embrace CDs in the 1980s. He was playing LPs and CDs until 2001, when he put his turntable away. There it remained for 10 years, and Mark was happy to put all of the problems associated with LPs — noise, non …

Face it: most of today’s hottest products become yesterday’s news in a hurry, but when a product sticks around for 10 or more years it has to be pretty darn special. This collection of oldie-but-goodie headphones are still more than worthy contenders when compared against the best of the latest headphones. Which proves, once again, that investing in a great …

Just when you thought we couldn’t see any more drama in presidential politics, Netflix dropped the fourth season of “House of Cards” on Friday. Binge watchers will be able to escape the insane melodrama of the real-world race for the White House for 10 glorious hours this weekend and dive in to the insane melodrama of a fictional presidency instead. …

This blog post should first serve as a public service announcement: Before you sell, erase, lose or otherwise divest yourself of your current iPhone and move to a new iPhone, Apple Watch wearers should unpair their Apple Watch from their old iPhone. Because if you don’t, the only way to pair it with your new is to reset your Apple …

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What a difference a year makes. When the live-streaming app Meerkat launched last February, just before the popular tech, music and film festival called South by Southwest (SXSW), it captured the imaginations of Silicon Valley. Suddenly, people could easily use their smartphones to broadcast live video over the Internet. And it was everywhere. While at the festival last year, I …

If you like thrillers, you might just be thrilled by this week’s giveaway. We’ve got a copy of the movie “Hitman: Agent 47,” along with some Agent 47 swag. The 2015 film, which is based on the Hitman video game series, recently came out on Blu-ray, DVD and Digital HD. You’ll get a Blu-ray copy with a prequel comic book …

For many a game fan, playing desktop games on a mobile device is a kind of Holy Grail pursuit. Hence the creation of devices like the Nvidia Shield tablet and streaming apps like Remotr. Ah, but what if you want to flip the equation? Android is home to innumerable great games, many of which have no desktop counterparts. Wouldn’t it …

Last spring, Benedict Cumberbatch fans were treated to Benedict Chocobatch, a 6-foot tall, 88-pound version of the “Sherlock” star crafted out of 500 Belgian chocolate bars. This year, an even more adorable version of Cumberbatch has debuted. Cumberbunny mixes the actor’s face with bunny ears and the body of a rabbit wearing a bowtie. Created by the same UK-based food …

We may have just seen the newest flagship phone from HTC. Photos of the company’s next smartphone, dubbed the HTC 10, have appeared on Twitter Friday. From Twitter account @OnLeaks, we see a prototype phone that looks to have a fingerprint scanner, dedicated menu and back buttons, a matte black design and a USB Type-C charging port. The tweet claims …

Let’s face it, news happens — lots of it. And that’s awesome. But it can be overwhelming to try to stay on top of that density of tech-related news. In fact, here at CNET our editorial staff writes upward of 80 articles per day, and we’re pretty selective about what we cover. And we know many of you just don’t …