CNET’s Cheapskate scours the Web for great deals on PCs, phones, gadgets and much more. Questions about the Cheapskate blog? Find the answers on our FAQ page. And find more great buys on the CNET Deals page. Xerox Science fiction got it wrong. Despite the arrival of slim, lightweight tablets and cheap, ubiquitous digital storage, …

John Legere may be one of tech’s most colorful and uncensored CEOs. But he apparently knows when he’s crossed a line. T-Mobile’s CEO on Monday apologized for offensive comments he made last week about the Electronic Frontier Foundation amid a debate over his company’s Binge On unlimited streaming service. But Legere didn’t relent in his defense of Binge On as …

Once upon a time, all desktops and laptops had LEDs that would blink whenever there was hard drive activity. Somewhere along the way, PC manufacturers decided this wasn’t necessary, but I disagree: If your computer is suddenly non-responsive, it can help to know if there’s still drive activity. If there is, it might just be a temporary delay. If not, …

This story is part of CES 2016. Our editors bring you complete CES 2016 coverage and scour the showroom floor for the hottest new tech gadgets around. From Eurovision to the The Super Bowl, some things are better watched with friends. A new app called Cast plans to help you share your viewing even with people who aren’t in the …

Hot or not hot, your looks probably don’t have as much to do with your dating success on Tinder as you would like to believe. Tinder CEO Sean Rad said the smartphone app, which helps users anonymously locate others nearby who are interested in making a love connection, relies on an algorithm to determine users’ “desirability” to make date suggestions. …

This story is part of CES 2016. Our editors bring you complete CES 2016 coverage and scour the showroom floor for the hottest new tech gadgets around. Hundreds of companies flock to Las Vegas each January to make their mark on the tech industry in a given year, but one company remains absent. Apple doesn’t attend CES, at least not …

Hot on the heels of Netflix launching in Asia (as well as the rest of the world), Hong Kong’s largest telecommunications company, PCCW, is making a streaming service available in the region. The new service, called Viu (pronounced “view”), will be streaming the latest Korean dramas and variety programs a mere eight hours after they air on TV. Viewers will …

This story is part of CES 2016. Our editors bring you complete CES 2016 coverage and scour the showroom floor for the hottest new tech gadgets around. A few months ago, my wife and I went into a Buy Buy Baby store, ready to spend some money and score the necessary gear for our upcoming adventure in parenthood. Two hours …

Apple Music has topped 10 million paying subscribers in its first six months, according to the Financial Times, a milestone that rival music-streaming service Spotify took nearly six years to reach. The milestone comes less than two months after the service was extended to Google’s Android operating system, the software that powers the majority of the world’s mobile devices. Apple …

This story is part of CES 2016. Our editors bring you complete CES 2016 coverage and scour the showroom floor for the hottest new tech gadgets around. You couldn’t walk more than a hundred feet without running into a VR headset somewhere, anywhere, at CES. Foldable cardboard. Plastic headsets. Phone cases. Giant PC rigs with controllers and sensors. This is …

Before seeing this OS X Daily post, my method for finding an attachment in an email using the iOS Mail app was to scroll and scroll through my inbox, stopping briefly each time I saw the little paperclip icon to see if that was the message with the attachment for which I was searching. Little did I know that there …

The easiest way to share contact information from your iPhone to another iPhone is simply to use the Share Contact feature when viewing a contact to text or email a vCard. A vCard contains all of the contact information you have on file for a contact, and its VCF file format can be read by most modern devices, including Android …

This story is part of CES 2016. Our editors bring you complete CES 2016 coverage and scour the showroom floor for the hottest new tech gadgets around. Now playing: Watch this: Intel shows intelligent drone with Real Sense tech 2:11 With so many drone expos popping up throughout the year, I don’t know that CES will ever become the place …

If you’re lucky enough to live near a brick-and-mortar store where you can hear speakers and electronics before you buy them, I definitely recommend in-person auditions. If it’s a small shop, call in advance to discuss your needs, and bring along some of your favorite music — it always helps to listen to music you know well when picking out …

This is special — VPI may be best known as New Jersey’s leading turntable manufacturer, but it now has an integrated tube amplifier, the 299D. Inspired by the legendary H. H. Scott 299 amplifier that was made from 1958 to 1966, the VPI 299D is a rethink of the original design. The story really began when VPI associate Stephen Leung …