As everyone knows, we’re now living in a sharing economy. People share their homes (Airbnb), their culinary skills (EatWith), their manual labor (TaskRabbit) — heck, even their money (LendingClub). Oh, and of course their cars: Lyft and Uber drivers will gladly ferry you from point A to point B (or, let’s be honest, bar A …

Samsung wants mobile gaming to feel as much like desktop gaming as possible, and with the Galaxy S7 it’s pushing to deliver on that mission. But there’s saying “we take games seriously” and then there’s delivering meaningful features that make a real difference to what people want to do when playing games. The good news is that in the Galaxy …

HP, one of the biggest names in printers and computers, also has a history of making phones. No, really. The Palo Alto, California, company has largely flown under the radar with its phones because, well, they’ve all flopped. But that isn’t deterring the world’s second-largest PC maker from trying again with the HP Elite x3, which it revealed Sunday at …

“Sherlock” fans eagerly awaiting the new season of the hit BBC show next year can at least keep their sleuthing skills intact with an upcoming release of the Japanese manga comic series “Sherlock: A Study In Pink.” Titan Comics said Friday that it plans to release the series — translated from the 2013 Japanese manga editions from Kadokawa Comics into …

Get ready for a couple of new Galaxies. Samsung just introduced two new phones, the 5.1-inch Samsung Galaxy S7 and curved-screen 5.5-inch Galaxy S7 Edge. This time around, the devices have powerful Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 processors, a microSD card slot for expandable storage, a water-resistant design and water cooling for better gaming performance. Those features give the phones a competitive …

Telstra has announced a planned series of network upgrades throughout 2016. After successfully showing off 1Gbps LTE speeds at the end of 2015, Telstra will roll out the enhanced network in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane CBD areas “later in 2016.” This is all about the carrier taking the first steps on the road to the eventual 5G mobile broadband, the …

Now playing: Watch this: Everything from Samsung’s Unpacked event in 3 minutes 2:57 The Galaxy S7 looks familiar. But maybe that’s OK: Samsung’s latest flagship phone borrows a lot from its predecessor, and if you picked up the Galaxy S6, there might not be enough here to sway you. But the S7 brings back a few fan-favorite features that went …

I took a spin in a 5G phone. Well, it wasn’t really a phone, but a large van that served as a proxy for a 5G mobile device. I sat in the vehicle, which had Samsung and Verizon logos plastered on the sides and a large, bulky cellular antenna mounted on the roof, as it drove around one of the …

LG has been feeling what we’ve been feeling: It’s getting harder to get pumped up for a new phone. Enlarge Image LG’s mobile president, Juno Cho, kicks off the G5 presentation. Sarah Tew/CNET In fact, the company has known that for a while. On the day in November 2014 that Juno Cho took the reins of the Korean conglomerate’s mobile …

Samsung’s Galaxy S7 keynote was full of surprises. The ultimate one: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg strode out on stage to explain how putting on a VR headset can actually be social. “Pretty soon, we’re going to live in a world where everyone has the power to share and experience whole scenes, as if we’re there in person,” said Zuckerberg. He …

Steve Jobs’ “reality distortion field” helped propel an empire, but it couldn’t keep a leather wristwatch band from showing some serious wear. Even in “heavily worn condition,” however, the Seiko wristwatch that Jobs wore in a 1984 photo shoot with the original Macintosh still fetched $42,500 (about £29,800, AU$59,440) in an online auction Saturday. The watch was just one of …

In a VR-fuelled press conference at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona that even included a surprised visit from Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Samsung finally showed off its new phones (to someone other than a llama). There were no real surprises in terms of hardware. There’s a 5.1-inch S7 and a 5.5-inch S7 Edge, both of which have Quad HD Super …

A gleaming black-and-white Gear VR headset rests on each of the 5,000 seats in a Barcelona convention hall. About 10 minutes into Samsung’s Unpacked press conference, we’re told to put on the virtual reality goggles. What we see is a virtual unboxing of the venue, with the ceiling floating into space and the floor falling away to reveal Samsung’s newest …

The new Samsung Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge may be different sized, but they pack the exact same camera tech — and it’s that we’re taking a closer look at here. The most important thing about the camera to note is that the resolution has dropped from 16 to 12 megapixels. But don’t despair! That change is for a good …

Samsung is taking us back to 2014 — and that’s a good thing. The tech giant’s newest flagship phone, the Galaxy S7, has brought back two things popular in 2014’s Galaxy S5 but missing from last year’s device: water resistance and expandable flash memory. That means your phone will still work if you drop it in a “puddle” (aka the …