Smart Bluetooth menstrual cup tracks your period

Enlarge ImageThe main app display tells you at a glance how full the cup is. Loon Lab If you have been on the fence about switching from disposable sanitary products to a menstrual cup, the Looncup may be just the product to sway you. Currently collecting funding on Kickstarter, it uses Bluetooth connectivity to connect …

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Sigma’s latest lens goes fast, high and wide

Enlarge Image Sigma Landscape photographers rejoice. Claiming to be the first full-frame lens of its kind — and that it’s optimized for use on cameras with high-resolution sensors — the Sigma 20mm f1.4 Art joins the rest of the company’s high-quality but reasonably priced prime lenses. Read more Our favorite lenses under $1,000 Like most of Sigma’s new lenses, it’s …

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Yahoo wants to kill passwords with revamped Mail app

One new Yahoo Mail feature lets you sign in without a password. Yahoo Yahoo thinks it can make your password a thing of the past. The Sunnyvale, California-based Internet giant unveiled new features Thursday, including one that enables people to log in to their email accounts without a password. You go to mail.yahoo.com, enter your user name and press “continue.” …

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Following AT&T’s lead, T-Mobile and Sprint plan to let customers use one phone number for multiple devices. Three of the four major US wireless carriers will soon let subscribers to use one number to get calls on their phone, tablet, smartwatch and other devices. Sarah Tew / CNET T-Mobile and Sprint, the No. 3 and No. 4 wireless carriers in …

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Telstra TV keeps unmetered streaming in the family

Telstra TV will go head to head with Apple TV when it launches at the end of this month, bringing Telstra customers catch-up TV and SVOD apps alongside content channels such as YouTube and Red Bull TV. But while Netflix will be available on Telstra TV from launch, the telco is looking after its home turf first, offering unmetered streaming …

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See the world in VR with Google Cardboard and Street View

Enlarge ImageTake a trip without ever leaving the house. Want to take a virtual tour of Stonehenge? How about downtown Chicago? Or your very own town? It’s now possible thanks to Google’s Street View app [Android|iOS] and Google Cardboard. Cardboard, of course, is the dirt-cheap virtual-reality headset that works with your smartphone. And Street View is the mobile version of …

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Blu debuts two new Android phones with monster batteries

The Blu Studio Energy 2 and Energy X boast days of battery life. Blu Products Two new Android devices from Miami-based phone-maker Blu Products offer something that you don’t find in other models: batteries that last up to three days on a single charge. Announced Thursday and available immediately through Blu’s website, the Studio Energy 2 and Energy X pack …

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Coming to an area near you: NBN reveals three

Enlarge Image NBN NBN has shed light on its broadband rollout schedule for the next three years, giving Australians a better idea of when construction will begin for 7.5 million homes and businesses across the country, and the technology that will be used in each area. The company responsible for building Australia’s national broadband network released its three-year plan today, …

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Apple tries to ease fears that Wi

Should you use the new Wi-Fi Assist feature in iOS 9? Apple says yes and explains why. Screenshot by Lance Whitney/CNET Apple is aiming to assure you that its new Wi-Fi Assist feature in the iOS 9 software won’t gulp down all your mobile data. Introduced in Apple’s latest mobile operating system in mid-September, Wi-Fi Assist is the company’s attempt …

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Android Marshmallow to flavor LG G4 smartphone starting next week

Get ready, LG G4 owners. Android Marshmallow is coming your way. LG Electronics LG will be the first mobile vendor in the world outside of Google to start updating its phones with the new Android Marshmallow operating system. Its flagship G4 is first in line. On Thursday, the Korean mobile-phone maker said LG G4 owners in Poland will be the …

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New free movies available in November 2015

Meow. Wait, that’s not what King Kong says. Universal The underrated Crackle.com is adding plenty of new titles in November. The biggest one may be the 2005 version of “King Kong” starting Jack Black and Naomi Watts. It’s got a Metacritic score of 81/100, so if you haven’t seen the Peter Jackson version of the giant ape, maybe you should. …

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Virtually alone: Why watching live events in VR feels so strange

Scott Stein/CNET I sat in the corner of an audience that I wasn’t really in. I watched the back of a bald man’s head as he snapped photos on the stage with his camera. I was high up, looking down on everyone as a virtual screen appeared in this virtual audience, with a countdown to the Democratic debate that was …

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How next year’s wireless auction could give T

T-Mobile has found itself in an unlikely position, one that bodes well for its prospects in next year’s government auction of wireless spectrum. CNET T-Mobile, Sprint and a cavalcade of regional carriers spent the past two years lobbying for the Federal Communications Commission to set aside a swath of spectrum specifically for smaller players. Spectrum is the radio airwaves that …

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This iPhone app turns your Live Photos into GIFs

Jason Cipriani/CNET We’ve already shown you how to share the Live Photos captured with the iPhone 6S. Sharing is simple, so long as you are sending your Live Photo to someone using an Apple device. Things tend to get more complicated when you want to share across social networks or to a non-Apple user. Until now, the simplest way to …

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