Enlarge ImageRoku 4 is the company’s first new box in more than two years. Sarah Tew/CNET Roku unveiled its first new set-top box in more than two years Tuesday, aiming to distinguish itself from bigger competitors by hawking streaming devices and nothing else. The Saratoga, California, company, which makes devices that connect your television to …

Holograms have a date with reality. On Tuesday, Microsoft revealed that its Windows 10-powered augmented reality headset, HoloLens , will ship to software developers in the first quarter of next year. Now playing: Watch this: Microsoft demos wearable holograms on HoloLens 2:38 “Whether it’s for productivity, health care, design, or entertainment, HoloLens creates experiences that aren’t possible on any other …

Toyobo Wearable technology has hit the big time, with electronics leaders like Apple and Samsung being among the many companies that have released smartwatches and smartbands to capitalise on the trend. However, Japanese textile and chemistry company Toyobo is bringing a new definition to the term “wearable.” Toyobo is currently developingtape-like material called Cocomi that, when applied to clothing, is …

Tim Stevens/CNET JAPAN — If you thought you looked silly holding that giant new smartphone up to your head whenever you take a call, have a look at this. Its name is RoBoHoN, it’s Sharp’s latest creation and yes, it’s coming to market in 2016 — in Japan, at least. RoBoHoN is an honest to goodness robot. He can walk …

Andrew Hoyle/CNET Apple’s brand new iPhone 6S and iPhone 6S Plus have been given a whole host of new features over their predecessors, but it’s the new camera that I’ve been giving the most attention. The iPhone 6 was already one of our favourite camera phones, but with an upgraded 12-megapixel sensor, I was keen to see what the new …

With the latest update to the YouTube iOS app, your iPhone has become a mini video-editing studio. Google has added in-app editing tools to its YouTube iOS app that let you trim a video’s start and end points, add filters to tweak the look of that video, and add music to the background for a more cinematic feel. To upload …

Editing so many science stories at CNET, I’ve become fairly conversant in space facts. Until Monday night, however, I did not know that Orion’s Belt is made of real leather or that the big red spot on Jupiter is actually a Target store. I have @Midnight’s nightly #HashtagWars on Twitter to thank for my expanded knowledge. For those who’ve managed …

Enlarge Image Sarah Tew/CNET Most pole mounts for GoPro cameras are little more than extendable monopods with a handgrip. Polar Pro’s PowerGrip H2O goes well beyond that thanks to a flexible design and some choice accessories. An evolution of the camera-accessory maker’s PowerPole, the PowerGrip H2O puts a battery in the pole mount’s handle — a 6,700mAh lithium rechargeable battery …

Sarah Tew/CNET After a novel public beta program Apple released iOS 9 in its official form today. iPhone and iPad users can download the latest version of Apple’s mobile operating system either over the air or through iTunes. The update will be compatible with all iPhones back to the iPhone 4S , all iPod Touch devices back to the 5th-Generation …

As everyone knows, trolls ruin the Internet. (You know who you are.) But even a comments section not filled with haters can be a detriment, simply because of the bandwidth require to load it. If you’re using a desktop Web browser, there are any number of ways to block the comments sections on sites like YouTube and Politico. But mobile …

One Jack. Two companies. Jack Dorsey has been given a second shot at running Twitter, the struggling social media company he co-founded. Dorsey will be doing double duty at the top spot, also running Square, a mobile payments company he co-founded in 2009. The appointment thrusts Dorsey into an elite group of visionary business people. Only a handful of executives …

Jack Dorsey is once again the CEO of Twitter, the company he co-founded. Mike Blake/Reuters/Corbis Seven years after he was ousted as Twitter’s chief executive, Jack Dorsey has another shot running the social network. Dorsey’s first priority: Make Twitter more appealing to more people. It’s a tall order. His to-do list includes a simpler, more visually appealing interface so that …

Is Samsung prepping a tablet with an 18.4-inch display? GFXBench/screenshot by Lance Whitney/CNET Samsung may be aiming to outgun Apple and Microsoft with a supersized tablet. Called the Samsung SM-T670, a device leaked on benchmarks site GFXBench reveals several key features, including an 18.4-inch screen with 1,920×1,080 pixels, a 1.6 gigahertz Samsung Exynos 7 octa-core processor, 1.8 gigabytes of memory, …

Enlarge Image Screemshot by Nicole Cozma/CNET If you like to share GIFs with friends and family to better convey your thoughts or feelings, then you’ve probably searched for them on Google at least once. The main issue with using Google is that none of the GIFs in the results show animations until you click to enlarge them. This makes the …

Enlarge ImageJack Dorsey had some things to say at TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco in 2012. Daniel Terdiman/CNET Newly crowned Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey came to fame as a co-creator of the microblogging service, which limits messages to 140 characters. But even with his emphasis on brevity, he’s rarely at a loss for words. Dorsey is now starting his second …