Google’s new wearable aims to help doctors prevent disease. Google Google’s latest device is aimed at letting doctors know how you’re doing, even between checkups. The company unveiled on Tuesday a new sensor-packed wristband, meant to collect information on vital signs for medical professionals. The device will measure pulse, heart rhythm and skin temperature, as …

The new Backup Plus drive comes in different color options. Seagate Seagate today announced new versions of its Backup Plus portable and Backup Plus Desktop drives that have top capacities of 4TB and 8TB, respectively. The portable Backup Plus is best for those who travel frequently since it’s compact and doesn’t require a separate power adapter. Currently 4TB is the …

Past seasons of Showtime shows are available to stream on rival Netflix, but Hulu will be offering the ability to watch episodes as soon as they air. Netflix Attention, cord cutters: TV-streaming site Hulu and premium cable network Showtime have a deal for you. Next month, Hulu will offer a bundle combining its own subscription service plus an online Showtime …

Chevy’s all-emoji press release is primed for hilariously bad translations. Chevy On Monday, Chevy issued one of the strangest press releases we’ve ever received. Instead of a standard release with news about an upcoming product, Chevy sent a release written entirely in emoji, and ripe for deciphering. All we know for sure is the release is related to the 2016 …

Screenshot by Matt Elliott/CNET FilePane offers a helping hand when you are dragging and dropping files to and fro on your Mac, providing shortcuts to many common actions based on the type of file you are dragging. The app also works with blocks of text and online images. FilePane usually costs $6.99 but is currently discounted to $1.99 as part …

Music-streaming site Tidal has lost yet another CEO. Screenshot by Lance Whitney/CNET Jay Z’s music-streaming service can’t seem to hold onto its CEOs. On Tuesday, the company announced that interim CEO Peter Tonstad was let go, according to The Wall Street Journal. Tonstad used slightly different terminology to describe his exit, telling Norwegian newspaper Dagens Næringsliv that “the only thing …

The Qlipp gets attached to the strings of the racket and is capable of tracking how the racket is swung. Aloysius Low/CNET SINGAPORE — Aimed at enthusiastic tennis players who want to improve their game, the Qlipp sensor from Singapore-based startup 9 Degrees Freedom clips on to your racket like a string separator and tracks and transmits info to your …

Apple For many an iPhone or iPad user accustomed to syncing their devices to their desktops or laptops, the 2011 arrival of Apple’s iCloud service created no small amount of head-scratching. No more syncing? iCloud backs up everything or just some things? What about photos? And do apps like Facebook really need to be backed up to the cloud? Then, …

Will Windows Insiders get Windows 10 for free? Microsoft answers that question. screenshot by Lance Whitney/CNET Microsoft is trying to clear up the confusion over whether Windows Insiders will be entitled to the final version of Windows 10. The question of who would get Windows 10 for free seemed a simple one at first. In January, Microsoft announced that users …

Public opinion research company Roy Morgan published the results of a survey yesterday which suggested that US-based streaming video-on-demand service Netflix had, in the two months following its Australian launch, garnered over ten times the audience of its nearest SVOD rival. The Australian video streaming market has exploded in 2015, with several high-profile launches and joint ventures competing for the …

Lenovo’s new PC on a stick is a full Windows PC that can be plugged into any PC or monitor with an HDMI port. Lenovo Lenovo is hitting a new PC market in a small way. On Tuesday, the popular PC vendor announced its latest creation — a PC on a stick. Starting at $130, the new Ideacentre Stick 300 …

Talk about a dramatic cat video. When a pilot learns that a kitty hitched a ride on the small airplane he’s flying, his reaction is pretty priceless. Related Links Keep watching those cat videos. They may be good for your health Connected cat toy lets you drive Fluffy mad over the Web Rhapsody in Mew: The music scientifically composed for …

Nicole Cozma/CNET If you’re familiar with the custom search engine feature in Chrome, you might have wondered if the same functionality was available in Firefox. As Ghacks points out, the functionality is there, but it works under another name: dynamic bookmarks. Instead of simply linking to the same website (or portion of a website), a dynamic bookmark will allow you …

Getty Images Australian internet users could soon be met with dead ends across the web after lawmakers on Monday approved controversial laws that allow the blockage of sites suspected of contributing to piracy. The Copyright Amendment (Online Infringement) Bill 2015 [PDF] passed with support from both major parties in the Senate, after passing the House of Representatives last week, with …

Now playing: Watch this: Autotune your video transitions with Adobe Premiere’s… 2:57 If you have ever watched or edited an interview, you’ll know that there is usually a lot of content that needs to be cut out. Traditionally, a video editor creates a series of cuts to remove things like false starts, ums and ahs, or content that does not …