Sarah Tew/CNET Windows 10 is now available. Microsoft is currently offering the operating system for free for a limited time to Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1 users. While this is great news for a majority of PC owners, those of you still holding on to a Windows XP or Windows Vista machine may …

Does Twitter have a viable future? Interim CEO Jack Dorsey and Chief Financial Officer Anthony Noto took turns Tuesday delivering a brutal assessment that investors did not want to hear: The company is still failing to attract enough new users to grow. Twitter hasn’t effectively explained why people of all stripes should use it, Dorsey said. Noto was more blunt, …

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. This Lightning cable glows red while charging, green when done. Brilliant! iOrange If you own a modern Apple device — iPhone, iPad — you’ve probably discovered that Lightning cables can be hit and …

One of Lexus’ testers brings a Slide Hoverboard to a specially designed skate park. Video screenshot by Anthony Domanico/CNET Lexus is moving forward with its plans to bring us A video posted to the company’s YouTube channel Tuesday announces that we’ll see the Lexus Slide Hoverboard in action on August 5. The 18-second teaser clip gives us a few new …

As the global tablet market continues to decline, Apple is losing share in the overall market. Screenshot by CNET Tablets are continuing to lose their allure. Marked by little hardware innovation and limited upgrades, the tablet market declined seven percent year over year as of the second quarter, the International Data Corporation (IDC) said. Global tablet shipments totaled 44.7 million …

Sprint goes after contract defectors with new rate plan. Sprint wants more families on its network in a bad way. Announced Wednesday and available July 31, the Sprint Family Share Pack is a limited-time, $100 offer that gives you 10GB of data for up to four lines. For $20 more, the $120 plan quadruples the data allowance from 10GB to …

Google’s Project Loon aims to bring Internet connectivity to rural populations. Google Google is taking steps to bring its Wi-Fi-beaming balloons to Sri Lanka. The search giant has signed a preliminary agreement, known as a memorandum of understanding, with the government of Sri Lanka, Google has confirmed. That means both sides will explore the possibility of testing Google’s high-flying balloons …

Enlarge ImageA price cut is at hand for Samsung’s Galaxy S6. CNET It seems that demand for the Galaxy S6 is not quite what Samsung expected after all. In announcing its most recent quarterly earnings Wednesday, the Korean electronics giant warned that its handset division would likely face a difficult market environment and said it would be “adjusting” the price …

Matt Elliott/CNET If you’ve been using the public beta of OS X 10.11 El Capitan, then you have likely experienced the occasional odd behavior of an app freezing or crashing or otherwise misbehaving. A bug has a greater chance of being fixed if you report it to Apple. And with the El Capitan beta comes an app — Feedback Assistant …

Pioneer LP-30-K turntable Pioneer The ongoing surge in LP sales shows no signs of slowing down, but not everybody gets “it” — they don’t understand what the fuss is all about. Why has this ancient format not only stuck around long after digital should have buried it? What the hell is going on? The answer is simply this: at its …

Video’s becoming a key draw for people on Facebook. Facebook Lights, action, Facebook! The world’s largest social network isn’t just a place where people chat with friends, share news stories and look at baby photos. It’s increasingly becoming a center for video — be it uploads of friends dunking buckets of ice on their heads or advertisements from McDonald’s reenacting …

Now playing: Watch this: How to upgrade to Windows 10 right now 2:33 Windows 10 is finally here and it’s the best version of the operating system we’ve seen in a while. Even better, it’s a free update if you already have Windows 7 or newer. The new operating system is available as an update starting July 29 and we …

LG’s television business had a rough second quarter, but the company doesn’t expect its issues to last long. LG LG Electronics, which sells everything from televisions to smartphones to refrigerators, had a tough but still slightly profitable second quarter. The South Korea-based electronics giant tallied 13.9 trillion Korean won ($16.2 billion) in sales during the second quarter (PDF), down 7.6 …

Technicolor Dolby has gotten the most press when it comes to high dynamic range ( HDR), widely seen as the next generation of home video content after 4K. The company has been been making a big push for several years with its Dolby Vision HDR format, but it’s not the only one in the game. Technicolor, a company known best …

Now playing: Watch this: Microsoft opens a new Windows to the world 2:00 Microsoft’s Joe Belfiore, head of the software operating systems group, is in Redmond, Washington, Wednesday preparing to press a very important button. Once pressed, it will send a notification around the world reminding hundreds of millions of people that Windows 10, Microsoft’s flagship software, is ready to …