OK, so everyone in the wireless industry is talking about 5G. Why should I care? 5G aims to be 100 times faster than our current wireless technology and even speedier than what Google Fiber offers through a physical connection to the home. The incredible speeds and responsiveness achieved with 5G open up new possibilities, and …

Next-generation wireless networks could well make your phone dramatically more powerful and transform everything from driving to entertainment. But to hear the industry players right now, you’d think the 5G revolution is just around the corner. It’s not. Today’s technology industry has a remarkable success rate developing new products and services that profoundly transform our lives. You’d be well advised …

It’s true, most audiophiles are older, 40-plus-year-old people, but that’s not to say there aren’t a lot of young audiophiles. A couple of years ago I met a 10-year-old audiophile at a hi-fi show when he walked right up to me and declared himself a loyal Audiophiliac reader. He peppered me with questions for a few minutes before his father …

Long before transistors and other electronics came along, calculators were large mechanical machines that performed mathematics through a series of gears and cylinders turning inside their boxy exteriors. The YouTube channel called the Numberphile got its hands on one such device called the “Millionaire,” and released a video Tuesday showing how it works. Related stories Born in 1980? A mathematical …

The Academy Awards might be a tightly scripted show, but that doesn’t mean mischief and mayhem don’t sneak in. Every year, it seems there’s at least one moment on the red carpet or during the actual ceremony when some carefully planned moment goes off course or a celebrity or two gives the tabloids yet another good reason to put them …

I’ve been listening to the Audeze Deckard for months on my desktop, and I’ve taken it for granted. It was just there, doing its job so well that I didn’t really think about how it sounded, but when I started paying attention to write this review I really came to appreciate what the Deckard does. In case you were wondering, …

By one count, 49 people have died in fatal selfie accidents over the past few years, with the biggest chunk of those deaths happening in India. In response to two recent deaths, Mumbai has reportedly designated 16 “no-selfie zones” around the nation’s largest city, which is home to a number of photogenic sites. In January, an 18-year-old woman fell into …

YouTube has offered the ability to blur faces of people in your uploaded videos since 2012. While the face blur tool worked relatively well, it couldn’t be applied to any other objects. Now there’s a secondary blur tool you can apply to any object, even moving ones. Google’s announcement of the blur tool mentioned that it will be a “… …

Families warred from within. Friends bickered. The Internet’s collective mind broke apart like an egg dropped on a tile floor. What was it that brought such a calamity upon our world? It was a photograph of a dress. Not just any dress. The Dress. Here’s a refresher. One year ago, on February 26, 2015, a lacy dress with horizontal layers …

Few people have tried virtual reality, but it’s already become a meme. Earlier this week, a photo went viral showing Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg striding past unsuspecting journalists strapped into virtual reality headsets. Reactions ranged from comparisons to “The Matrix” to the observation that Zuckerberg may be our new overlord. The occasion was a Samsung press conference for the unveiling …

A US Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday reversed a 2014 jury verdict that had found Samsung Electronics infringed on three of Apple’s patents and had awarded the iPhone maker $119.6 million. Apple originally had sought $2.2 billion, claiming Samsung infringed on eight software patents. Apple maintained that Samsung infringed on patents for sliding to unlock the phone, autocorrecting text …

Editor’s note: This week’s giveaway has a Snapchat component. Please read the below rules carefully. We’ve turned off comments on this post to avoid confusion as to how to enter the contest. Congratulations to Jonathan M. of Kansas City, Missouri, for winning a Timbuk2 laptop backpack last week. Fans of “Shark Tank,” this one’s for you. My fellow CNET editor …

Android users, are you ready for your close-up? Facebook has begun rolling out its Live Video feature to devices running Android mobile software, Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg said Friday at a town hall Q&A session in Berlin. The company has been slowly releasing the feature to Apple’s iOS devices over the past few months. “Live Video is one of the …

When browsing about the Web, I often open links I come across in new tabs in the background, which can leave me with too many open tabs to keep track of after an embarrassingly short time. I am easily distracted but also gamely attempt to finish what I’m reading before jumping to the next thing. With Safari and a trackpad …

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