Anyone who grew up in the ’90s will be elated to find out the complete run of “Dawson’s Creek” is arriving on Hulu. Be amazed at the amount of sesquipedalian words these teenagers use at any given time (although they probably didn’t use “sesquipedalian”). Hulu also brings the complete sixth season of FX’s “Archer.” This …

Darth Vader walks into a room. An orchestra spits out a dramatic tune full of foreboding and fear. You’re listening to the “Imperial March,” a song synonymous with Sith danger, Force-choking and the Dark Side. Now listen to it as sung by a yelling toad. On Sunday, YouTube user helen ge posted a 13-second video of a toad being held …

OK, enough with the Internet-connected refrigerator already. That appliance is becoming a reality, what with Samsung and its smart fridge. But it also leaves a lot to be desired as an example of the Internet of Things, the idea that network connections will spread to anything with a power cord and even to a lot of things without one. The …

Before 2015, it took expensive professional equipment made up of multiple, separate cameras and powerful computers and software to create immersive video like the kind Google Maps shows in its Street View mode. Enter the smartphone, which has forced camera, processor and sensor technology to shrink so quickly that small, 360-degree cameras became not only possible, but affordable. The first …

Mobile World Congress is in full swing in Barcelona, and the news keeps on flowing. On Tuesday, our crew got to see Microsoft’s newest Lumia, fitness bands from Garmin and a safer future in the workplace. As always, check out everything from MWC 2016 on CNET. Project Tango could come to a museum near you Google’s spatial mapping technology Project …

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Samsung just took the wraps off its brand new Galaxy smartphones. The Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 Edge feature improved cameras, faster performance and longer battery life, among a myriad of other features. The highlight, however, has got to be the return of a microSD card slot and IP68 water-resistant rating, both of which were favorite features that didn’t make …

For as long as I can remember, the go-to option for resurrecting an old PC was to install Linux. The open-source operating system has lower system requirements than Windows, so it’s better suited to older hardware. However, could it also be overkill? If you’re not looking to run sophisticated software, or you just don’t want to deal with the complexities …

He might have a grand plan to connect the world, but Mark Zuckerberg still hasn’t made up his mind about when he’ll let his newborn daughter use the Internet. “I have some time to figure that out,” joked the CEO of Facebook, the planet’s most widely used social network, during his Mobile World Congress keynote on Monday. “She’s only three …

A concerned citizen in Newport, Shropshire in England called police last week to report an injured otter on the side of the road. The poor creature couldn’t even move. The Police Safer Neighborhood Team for the area showed up to investigate and aid the distressed critter. What they found was actually a fake fur collar from a coat. Lee Thomas …

Alarms are screaming, steam is billowing everywhere, and it looks like things are about to blow. You’re standing in the outer reaches of the plant staring down some majorly malfunctioning machinery and the only person who can help is a mile away in the control room. What the heck are you going to do? That’s when a big colourful arrow …

At last, two of the most confounding political minds of our time — Donald Trump and Tyrion Lannister — have met. And amazingly, when the two sit down together, only one of them is rendered speechless. That’s one of the many great moments in yet another Trump mashup I can’t stop watching. Called “Winter is Trumping,” it stitches The Donald’s …

In the “lenses-that-make-you-go-mmmmm” department, Sigma adds to its collection of fast, premium-build Art lenses with the Sigma 50-100mm F1.8 DC HSM Art, the first medium telephoto zoom with a constant f1.8 aperture. That’s the perfect focal range for portrait photography on a full frame camera, and more-or-less the equivalent of the staple 70-200mm f2.8 on an APS-C camera (75-150mm on …

I saw Morgan Freeman once. On the Fox studio lot. Walked right past me. So, yeah, I’m pretty much Morgan Freeman’s BFF. That’s why I’m excited to announce that MoFree (that’s what I call him; he refers to me as “public nuisance”) is the latest celebrity to lend his vocal talents to Waze. Waze, of course, is the popular community-powered …

When you’ve brought back two of the most well-loved geeky franchises of all time, what do you do next? If you’re J.J. Abrams, the writer and director who spearheaded the wildly successful Star Wars and Star Trek reboots, the answer is pretty much whatever you want. At least, that’s the premise of this parody clip from the comedy group Above …