Chinese smartphone company OnePlus is announcing its new phone Monday. OnePlus You’ve heard of Apple, Samsung, Motorola and Google. Now, a Chinese startup called OnePlus hopes you’ll think of it too. When the company last year unveiled the OnePlus One, the newest entrant into an already crowded smartphone market, it was sleek, affordable and well-reviewed. …

Here’s a 24-year-old JVC PC-X100 boom box sitting atop a brand-new Aiwa EXOS-9 Bluetooth speaker. Steve Guttenberg/CNET How do the latest Bluetooth speakers compare with the sound of boom boxes made a quarter of a century ago? Has progress been made, has technology and digital signal processing made for better sound or are today’s wireless speakers a step backward? A …

The world’s top 5 carmakers There’s a global race to be top automaker. Brian Cooley runs down the top five, as they now stand. Now playing: Watch this: Top 5: Carmakers in the world 3:42 The history of Motorola It invented the mobile phone as we know it, and it relayed the first words from the moon. It also made …

What’s a busy working mama to do when the family iPad suddenly has to be returned to the office? The first thing is not to panic. Kids and iPads are like peanut butter and jelly — they just go together. Sure, there are lots of debates about the appropriate age for when kids should be allowed to use tablets and …

Nordost flat Red Dawn speaker cables Simon Marsh It’s a safe bet that your speaker cables don’t look like Nordost’s ultra-flat cables. Founded in 1991, Nordost is a high-technology cable manufacturer using conductor technology that was initially developed for the aerospace industry. Nordost designs and builds all of its audio, digital and video cables in its facilities in Holliston, Massachusetts. …

Sarah Mitroff/CNET You no longer need to be tied to your computer to type out a text document or build a slideshow. Instead, there are many apps that help you edit those files straight from your phone or tablet. This year, both Microsoft and Google completely overhauled their mobile apps for Office and Drive, while Apple updated its iWork suite …

Angelina Jolie pictured during a visit to a camp for displaced Iraqis in north Iraq. Safin Hamed/AFP/Getty Images Angelina Jolie is directing a movie for Netflix. The Oscar-winning actor will helm an adaptation of “First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers”, a memoir by Cambodian author and human rights activist Loung Ung about her struggles under the …

Gone are the days of storing photo prints. Today, our digital photos can live online. Josh Miller/CNET Editors’ note, June 10, 2015: This guide has been updated to include Google Photos and Apple iCloud Photo Library. If you’re like many others, you habitually turn to Facebook when you want to share photos online. Arguably, that’s perfectly fine — after all, …

Comcast may be discussing content deals with new-media computers as a way to bring in younger viewers. CNET Comcast may be trying to woo young viewers who watch less TV by setting up deals to air content that will appeal more to them. The cable company has been holding preliminary talks with several online publishers, such as Vice Media, BuzzFeed, …

Nicole Cozma/CNET Chances are, your friends on Facebook share a video or 20 each month. Whether these are news stories, a (supposedly) amazing tip for your health, or a cute cat video, you probably want to see them in the best quality available. Thanks to a reminder shared by Ghacks, you can change the default playback settings and attempt to …

Unless you’re an expert nutritionist, you probably struggle to know what, if any, supplements you should be taking to achieve optimal health. It doesn’t help that retailers like GNC and Vitamin Shoppe carry thousands of products to treat a laundry list of potential health concerns, making it pretty tough to figure out exactly what might work for you. One startup, …

Enlarge ImageInside Amazon’s sprawling fulfillment center in Robbinsville, New Jersey, where the online retailer takes in and ships out millions of products. Ben Fox Rubin/CNET How does Amazon follow up a surprise quarterly profit? By watching its stock price rocket to an all-time high the next morning. Shares rose much as 20 percent Friday following quarterly results the day before …

In this slightly exaggerated image, you can see the full image on the left, and the overscanned image on the right. Geoffrey Morrison/CNET Your TV is probably trimming the edges of your TV shows and movies. Worse, this trimming means it has to zoom in on the image, potentially decreasing picture quality. It’s an easy thing to fix, and there …

There are times when being the first person with a new gadget will elicit cheers and envy — like outside New York’s Fifth Avenue Apple Store, surrounded by applauding salespeople, curious fans and gawking media. Then there’s buying the Amazon Fire Phone. Marlena Solomon learned first-hand the hazards of being an early adopter when she jumped at the chance to …

You could be slurping frozen treats on the high seas thanks to Uber and its drones. Uber Flying robots aren’t a regular part of Uber’s modus operandi, but on Friday the ride-sharing company is using the drones to deliver ice cream to customers in Singapore. Uber has been doing an ice-cream delivery promotional stunt for four years, and with the …