Macklemore & Ryan Lewis will celebrate the release of their new album by performing it for the whole world to see, courtesy of Amazon. At an intimate 500-person venue in Seattle, the rapper/producer duo will perform their new body of work, “This Unruly Mess I’ve Made,” on Friday, February 26, the day that the album …

Standard-zoom kit lenses for most Micro Four Thirds cameras have typically been 14-42mm (28-84mm equivalent) or 12-50mm (24-100mm). Both Panasonic and Olympus offer some cheap longer zooms as well, but there are tradeoffs: the broader the zoom range you pack into a lens, the slower and softer it tends to get. Panasonic’s new 12-60mm f3.5-5.6 sounds like a great compromise: …

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The OnePlus 3 is expected to launch “at the end of the second quarter,” said Carl Pei, co-founder of OnePlus, in an exclusive interview with CNET en Español. Pei declined to disclose many details about the upcoming smartphone, which will be the China-based vendor’s fourth model and new flagship device. But Pei said he hopes the new model will “captivate” …

It’s not exactly the new third rail of American politics, but social media can certainly deliver a jolt to the careless campaigner. This week, Republican US presidential candidate Ted Cruz canned his spokesman, Rick Tyler, for misrepresenting a video clip on social media that made it seem as though rival Marco Rubio was mocking the Bible. The week before that, …

Fitbit finished 2015 as the winner in wearables, despite a loss in market share. Shipments of Fitbit’s popular activity trackers surged to 21 million in 2015, up from 11 million in 2014, market researcher IDC said in a report Tuesday. Citing such factors as worldwide expansion, corporate wellness programs and a diverse product lineup, IDC crowned Fitbit the “undisputed worldwide …

Sony wants to put a stop to antisocial screen time. The Japanese electronics company showed off two concept projects at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona on Monday that are designed to bring families together around interactive touchscreens, but minus the actual screens. Sony unveiled a single Xperia smartphone at the world’s biggest mobile trade show this year, but hinted that …

Now playing: Watch this: Samsung and LG introduce their new, killer phones 2:52 I want the best phone I can buy. Don’t you? And right now, I’m having a hard time deciding between the LG G5 and Samsung Galaxy S7, the two latest, greatest Android phones just announced at the Mobile World Congress show in Barcelona. I don’t have any …

Car dealerships can be a stressful. Sure, it’s a chance for you to get an up-close-and-personal look at your next potential ride, but then there are the salesmen to contend with. Maybe you just want to check out the vehicle in peace. Augmented reality, which superimposes digital images on top of the real world, aims to cut out the dealership …

Don’t call it a comeback. Sony phones never really made much of an impression in the first place. The Sony brand is a household name when it comes to televisions and the PlayStation video game console, yet few people in the US know the Japanese conglomerate also makes phones. Sony wants to change that, and has vowed to return to …

The smartphone industry’s days of double-digit growth are likely behind it. Smartphone ownership has reached peak levels in key markets worldwide, Carolina Milanesi, chief of research at Kantar Worldpanel ComTech, said in a report Tuesday. In North America, 65 percent of consumers own a smartphone. In Europe, that number jumps to 74 percent. In China, the figure rests at 72 …

Wires are boring. I mean it’s not like anyone could write half a dozen different articles on HDMI. The future is wireless. The problem is, wireless HD is a fickle mistress. Competing standards, technological limits and cost all make it far less popular than the ubiquitous HDMI cable for conveying video and audio between devices in your home. But if …

With no new phones to show off at Mobile World Congress this year, Oppo focused on two new technologies that could make using its upcoming phones much easier. The first, called SuperVOOC, is a fast battery charging technology that gets your phone from 0 to 100 percent charge in a mere 15 minutes, Oppo claims. The second, called SmartSensor, builds …

What does the world sound like from inside your head? Or to a kid on the mean streets of New York? Or the cop confronting him? Those are the kinds of questions being asked by virtual-reality creators keen to use sound to take you places both familiar and untraveled. At this year’s Sundance Film Festival, where film fans and filmmakers …

Any daredevils still interested in buying a hoverboard will find it harder to get one now. On Tuesday, Amazon.com pulled all its hoverboards from its website, leaving only accessories such as decals and wheels still available. An advertisement for the Razor Hovertrax hoverboard leads to a nearly empty page on the website. Amazon’s decision comes days after the US Consumer …