Michelle Phan is one of the the most-watched women on YouTube. Mark Von Holden For someone best-known for transforming herself with makeup, Michelle Phan may be the most recognizable face to spring from YouTube. Chalk it up to entrepreneurial moxie. More than any other YouTube star, Phan has parlayed her passionate online video following into …

Now playing: Watch this: Cracking Open: Samsung Galaxy Note 4 3:47 From the outside, the Samsung Galaxy Note 4 looks a lot like the previous model, but Samsung has made several subtle design changes that make the device more difficult to disassemble and repair than previous Notes. With nearly every phone maker — including Apple — offering an oversize phone, …

Sarah Tew/CNET PC gamers who have stuck with big, bulky desktops are being rewarded for not making the switch to gaming laptops. Nvidia has released a new generation of desktop graphics cards under the imposing name Titan X, intended to outshine the company’s GeForce GTX 980 models, which were introduced in September, 2014. These new cards, if purchased individually, would …

The folks at FoundationDB are headed to Cupertino. James Martin/CNET Apple has acquired a Virginia-based company that’s attempting to help firms quickly access massive amounts of data, according to new reports. Apple bought FoundationDB recently, the Wall Street Journal is reporting, citing a comment from the iPhone maker. Terms of the deal were not disclosed and Apple would only say …

David P. Fulmer, CC BY 2.0 Amidst heated debate in the Senate on Data Retention, Attorney-General George Brandis has officially put website blocking on the table, tabling the Copyright Amendment (Online Infringement) Bill 2015 [PDF] to Parliament today. The bill provides a new means for rights holders to seek a Federal Court order requiring internet service providers to block overseas …

BT Mobile’s first deals are SIM-only, meaning you supply the phone and BT supplies the calls, texts and Internet. ponsulak/Shutterstock BT is back in the mobile game. BT Mobile offers SIM-only 4G contracts that come with free BT Sport action and big discounts for BT Broadband customers. The first three contracts announced today by BT Mobile are 12 month deals, …

Facebook Today at Facebook’s developer conference, F8, the social network announced new ways to share via Messenger. The company built a sharing platform that lets outside apps share their content, such as videos, music and GIFs, through the Messenger apps, available for Android , Windows Phone and iOS. You’ll be able to share with apps on iOS and Android, but …

Google Keep on Android Photo by Nicole Cozma/CNET Google Keep, the note-taking platform available online and for Android users, is now two years old. Updates have been making their way to the service at a snail’s pace, but thankfully, they’re still coming. While color-coding, checklists and voice actions have been around since the beginning, Google is finally adding the ability …

The Great China Firewall could come down for a couple of weeks in 2022. The Great Firewall of China would come down temporarily should Beijing land the 2022 Winter Olympics, a government official said Wednesday. Speaking to reporters in China, Wang Hui, a spokeswoman for the country’s effort to bring the games to the capital, said that if the city …

Is this the key to Pebble happiness? Nomad For anyone who relies heavily on their Pebble smartwatch, a dead battery can prove a serious hassle. It robs you of not only your notifications, but also your timepiece. And despite the company’s claims of up to a week of battery life, real-world runtime (in my experience, anyway) measures closer to four …

Microsoft is getting friendly with Android. Watch CNET Update to learn how Microsoft’s programs coming pre-loaded on future Android phones and tablets. But if you’re sick of bloatware, it seems the Galaxy S6 will give you more freedom to delete unwanted system apps: Now playing: Watch this: Android devices loaded with Microsoft apps 3:00 Also in this tech-news roundup, Amazon’s …

Scroll through the comments on Smosh’s first YouTube clip, posted nine years ago, and before long a post will ask how it’s possible that the comedy duo’s channel has 20 million subscribers when the planet has only 6 million people. Despite the problematic math about the world’s population, the question is a common one among those unfamiliar with Ian Hecox …

Musician Trent Reznor is reportedly a key player in the design of a streaming-music service for Apple. Michael Tran/Getty Images Apple is still planning a major revamp of its music services, an effort that’s being led by Nine Inch Nails front man Trent Reznor, according to a report Wednesday by The New York Times. The effort would reportedly include a …

Facebook’s new Messenger Platform will let third-party apps and services integrate with the chat app to send messages and other items directly through Messenger. James Martin/CNET SAN FRANCISCO — For the past eight years, Facebook has focused its efforts on ways to help developers across the Web interact with its social-networking service. Now, it’s coming up with new ways for …

You’ll never lock your phone: Everton’s Steven Naismith and Liverpool’s Steven Gerrard display the sort of blistering pace that scousers can expect from their smartphones. Alex Livesey/Getty Images Scousers are famous for their quick wit, but it seems their phones are faster — new figures reveal Liverpool has the fastest 4G LTE signal in the Britain. Online phone shop Mobiles.co.uk …