Apple will give employees a 50 percent discount on its first smartwatch. James Martin/CNET It’s a good time to be an Apple employee. CEO Tim Cook on Monday sent a memo to employees saying Apple will give all workers a 50 percent discount on Apple Watch or Apple Watch Sport. The purchase has to be …

Pick a Sony Xperia Z3, any Sony Xperia Z3. Andrew Hoyle/CNET T-Mobile has stopped selling Sony’s flagship smartphone, leaving Verizon as the sole major US carrier offering the Xperia Z3. A T-Mobile sales representative tweeted on Sunday that the company is no longer carrying the Xperia Z3. The tweet provided no reason and, so far, neither T-Mobile nor Sony has …

Sundar Pichai, Google’s senior vice president of products, announces Google’s mobile network plans at Mobile World Congress in March. Stephen Shankland/CNET Google reportedly is in talks with the operator of the UK’s Three and several other mobile networks to let subscribers use its upcoming mobile phone service without charge while abroad. Google hopes to offer customers free use of its …

Andrew Hoyle/CNET HTC spent a lot of time with the previous iterations of the One lineup, touting its UltraPixel camera as superior to those in competing devices. With the M9, however, HTC has finally conceded to critics and added a 20-megapixel camera to the device. On top of hardware changes, there are also some software features you should be aware …

4 ways to perfect your Netflix experience These tips from CNET’s Dan Graziano could greatly improve your viewing experience on Netflix. Now playing: Watch this: 4 ways to perfect your Netflix experience 2:17 Meerkat or Periscope? Which is better? With Twitter’s Periscope hitting the scene, we had to see how it measures up to Meerkat. Now playing: Watch this: Meerkat …

I review a lot of headphones, and a number of them make my ears hurt. Not at first, but after 15 minutes or more some do because they put too much pressure on my ears — and in the summer they make my ears sweat. Before we go any further, I have to admit predicting comfort about a given set …

HTC again gets low marks for repairability. iFixit The HTC One M9 may be a looker, but don’t try to pry it open for repairs. HTC’s latest flagship smartphone, which launches across carriers on April 10, earned one of the lowest repairability scores from iFixit, a firm that tears down and analyzes gadgets to get a better look at the …

A close-up of the Luneberg Lens Antenna. AT&T As March Madness peaks with the Final Four games on Saturday, the wireless carriers are working to bring their own A-game when it comes to network coverage. High-profile events such as the Super Bowl, South by Southwest or the National Collegiate Athletic Association’s men’s basketball tournament have become chances for the wireless …

Paul F. Tompkins on YouTube. Nicole Cozma/CNET It’s easy to spend hours watching YouTube videos about, well, pretty much anything. Using your mouse to adjust a setting isn’t exactly slow, but in some cases, the keyboard shortcuts are much faster. Here is a list of the best YouTube keyboard shortcuts you should start using right now: These shortcuts work when …

The Apple Watch Edition starts at $10,000 and goes as high as $17,000. CNET Apple may have to wait a little longer before it can go toe-to-toe with the luxury watchmakers in their home country. The launch of Apple Watch could be delayed in Switzerland, known as the birthplace of luxury watches, due to a patent owned by watch brand …

The iPad Air 2 is Apple’s latest flagship tablet, but the device hasn’t done much to bolster slumping sales. Sarah Tew/CNET When Steve Jobs showed off what he called the “truly magical and revolutionary” iPad in 2010, no one guessed just how quickly it would take off. The 3-year-old iPhone may have been a surefire hit at the time, but …

Windows 10 is closed for now, but an open-source version apparently isn’t out of the question. Screenshot by CNET The impossible is actually possible at Microsoft, one of the company’s engineers claims. Speaking at the open-source-focused ChefCon this week, Microsoft engineer and Technical Fellow Mark Russinovich said something unheard of: “it’s definitely possible” that Windows could eventually go open source. …

LG will outfit its next flagship phone with a higher-end screen. LG Display LG will outfit its next flagship phone with a screen that promises major improvements in just about every way. The new QHD (Quad High Definition) LCD display “represents a quantum jump in terms of key features,” LG Display said Friday. Those features include brightness, color gamut, contrast …

With the launch of Apple Watch in full swing, you probably noticed that this Apple product launch is very different from that of the iPhone or iPad. For starters, the only way to order a Watch is through the online Apple Store. There’s also the added step of trying the Watch on in stores, if you want. If you’d like …

TV not included. Apple Just when you thought Apple TV was dead in the water, Apple lowered the price of its set-top box, struck an exclusive deal with HBO and started adding new channels. Is there more to come? That’s the question. And if there is, will you need a new Apple TV box to take advantage of it? I …