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Now playing: Watch this: The best TVs you can buy right now 1:58 The big game is nearly upon us, and with it an onslaught of TV sales that bring some of the lowest prices of the year. From CBS Sports Complete Super Bowl 50 coverage Unfortunately there are more than just two teams playing this game. The TV market …

Putting ridiculous things on my face has become a fun tech-show pastime of mine. But there’s no way I’d ever have these things in my everyday life. Weird, overly large sunglasses with an eyepiece floating off the side. Tremendous mirror shades. Every set of VR goggles. Most of the tech I put on my face looks absurd. I can’t go …

Now playing: Watch this: What’s new on Netflix for February 2016 1:15 Netflix doesn’t seem to be trying very hard to top that this month. We’re getting some classics, like season one of “Care Bears & Cousins” and “Teen Witch,” but losing gems like “Terminator.” (Maybe he’ll be back?) In better news, the final half of the last season of …

Spotify wants to be more like YouTube. The streaming-music app tells the Wall Street Journal that it’s about to launch a library of podcasts and videos from big-name media partners, all in the quest to keep you entertained longer. And Spotify isn’t the only app extending its reach. It seems Snapchat has new calling features in the works, and Cortana …

A funny thing happened on my way to Facebook’s Sports Stadium. I couldn’t find it. This was the first indication that the world’s largest social network has a ways to go to attract a flood of real-time posts from sports fans. The newest feature for Facebook’s iPhone app (Android to come later) promises to turn your phone into a hub …

Microsoft’s tablet partnership with the National Football League has not always been smooth. After Microsoft struck a reported $400 million deal in 2013 with the NFL to have its Surfaces exclusively on team sidelines for reviewing plays, TV commentators kept referring to them as “iPads.” At the time, it was said that networks were constantly reminding their talkers that the …

Now playing: Watch this: How to make your laptop battery last longer 1:24 If you’ve tried all the tricks — dimming your screen, closing apps and turning off unused antennae — but your laptop’s battery still can’t hold a charge, it might be time to replace the battery. A battery’s capacity (the amount of energy it can hold) depletes over …

The matchup for Super Bowl 50 will be determined this Sunday. The AFC Championship will kick off at 3:05 p.m. ET as Peyton Manning and the Denver Broncos take on Tom Brady and the New England Patriots. The game will be broadcast on CBS, which you can access with a cable subscription or for free with an over-the-air digital antenna, …

If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, Twitter should be glowing with pride. It should be, but perhaps the company is nervous instead. That’s because the imitator is Facebook, Twitter’s biggest rival in the war for your social-media attention. Facebook on Wednesday announced a new feature to help the more than 1 billion people who use its service every …

The matchup for Super Bowl 50 will be determined this Sunday. The second game of the day will kick off at 6:40 p.m. ET. Cam Newton and the Carolina Panthers look to take down Carson Palmer and the Arizona Cardinals in the NFC Championship. The game will be broadcast on Fox, which you can access with a cable subscription or …

The Jays v-Jay on-ear headphone weighs next to nothing, a mere 2 ounces (58 grams), but the sound has real heft, so it provided a soul-satisfying kick to the “Hamilton” Broadway cast soundtrack. The rap musical connected all the dots over the V-Jays. True, the matte black, all-plastic design won’t win kudos for solid build quality, though the folding hinges …

To the world at large, audiophiles might seem a little strange. Why do they spend so much money on speakers, or why do they like tube amplifiers? People assume a lot about us, but I think anyone who even occasionally gives recorded music their undivided attention is an audiophile, or might become one at some future date. So it’s not …

We’re living in the service economy, right? Anything you want done but don’t want to do yourself, you can hire out. Rides, restaurant deliveries and, now, customer-service calls! New service Service calls companies so you don’t have to. It’s effectively a personal assistant that handles one of life’s most tedious jobs. And here’s the best part: there’s no hiring required. …

Virtual reality is officially a funny business. “It’s the most fun way to blow people’s minds,” according to comedian Rob Huebel, one of the funny folk embracing the comic potential of VR. Huebel and regular on-screen partner Paul Scheer appear in the first virtual-reality sketch from comedy website Funny or Die. In it, Huebel and Scheer play police officers interrogating …