Apple may be getting ready to unveil the iPad Pro, iPad Mini 4 and a new Apple TV. Now playing: Watch this: Is a 12.9-inch iPad Pro coming soon? 2:58 CNET Update delivers the tech news you need in under three minutes. Watch Bridget Carey every afternoon for a breakdown of the big stories, hot …

You can feel the difference, can’t you? The excitement that once gripped you as hype built for the next Apple iPhone isn’t quite there anymore. Smartphone makers used to wow us with every new bell, whistle and fingerprint reader, but nowadays a slightly sharper display or crisper camera elicit little more than a shrug. It’s a dilemma the entire industry …

Along with its new sans-serif logo, Google has a new search trick up its sleeve. Type in “I’m feeling curious” or simply “fun facts” and Google will hit you with a fact box with a random fact. Below the fact summary is a link to the source of the fact. Enlarge Image Screenshot by Matt Elliott/CNET Click the blue Ask …

Louie Psihoyos/Corbis While consumer advocates, government ministers and even rights holders have long said that piracy rates are reduced by opening access to affordable content in a timely manner, the numbers have finally come through to prove it: Australians are pirating less now that we have more streaming services. Consumer advocacy group Choice has today released new data that shows …

Enlarge Image The 3D-printed Maze hairbrush has sections that flex forward and backward to make hair removal a snap. Scott Shim When I see my wife cleaning her hairbrush, I get depressed and think, “I remember when I had hair.” When Scott Shim, associate professor of design at Ohio State University, saw his wife undertaking the task, it got him …

Enlarge ImageSamsung’s newest smartwatch, the Gear S2, comes in two models and features a round screen. Tyler Lizenby/CNET BERLIN — Samsung on Thursday showed the world its newest smartwatch, one that the company hopes will help it regain lost ground in the hot wearables market. The Gear S2, Samsung’s seventh smartwatch but its first featuring a circular screen , will …

Enlarge ImageSamsung on Thursday teased what appears to be a big-screen tablet or a 2-in-1 device, called the Galaxy View. Andrew Hoyle/CNET BERLIN — Samsung may not be done with product launches for the year. The South Korean company on Thursday teased what appeared to be a big-screen tablet or a 2-in-1 device called the Galaxy View. The brief video …

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. Enlarge Image Asus A couple months back I reviewed, then bought, an Asus ZenBook UX305 — a thin, lightweight laptop that, at first glance, seemed an ideal replacement for my aging, slowing, increasingly …

T-Mobile announces video calling. CNET T-Mobile customers with one of Samsung’s newer Android-powered smartphones can now make video calls right from the handset’s dialer. While video calling is widely available through third-party apps, the carrier said Thursday that its customers with the Galaxy Note 5 or Galaxy S6 Edge+ will be able to use T-Mobile Video Calling to make and …

Jason Cipriani/CNET There are plenty of quality iOS applications for marking up documents and photos, but there’s something to be said about a native solution created by Apple. With iOS 9, users will have the ability to draw, sign and type on a document or photo attachment without having to leave the Mail app in a similar vein to that …

Nicole Cozma/CNET Google+ Collections allows users to start categorizing their posts, photos, and videos by topic. Collections differ from Pages or Communities, in that you are the only person modifying the content, and the posts will appear in your profile stream for followers. This feature is currently available for the Web, Android, and iOS. To get you started, Google has …

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. Enlarge Image Look, ma, no thumbs! Lazy-Hands Before you laugh, before you scoff, hear me out. The Lazy-Hands is a finger-loop gripper thingie you stick to the back of your phone, tablet, or …

Enlarge Image Hello Code e.U. Learning a programming language is an intimidating experience. The terminology, semantics and rules can be to beginners. I know, I’ve tried to learn several times only to give up. Javvy is a new app made by the same team behind Swifty. Both apps are designed to make learning a programming language, in this case Java, …

The Moto X Pure Edition is Motorola’s standard bearer for 2015. Josh Miller/CNET Just when you thought we were done with new Motorola smartphones for 2015, another device has landed on our rumor radar. According to Twitter source @upleaks, the Moto X Force will reportedly make its debut some time in December — with a “shatterproof” build. Whether this is …

Enlarge Image Xiaomi achieved quick success with its smartphones. Aloysius Low/CNET Xiaomi has managed to take a big bite out of Apple’s market share in China thanks to its Mi line of smartphones. Now, four years after its inception, the Chinese smartphone powerhouse looks to bring the fight to Apple in the laptop market. According to a Bloomberg report out …