James Martin/CNET The Apple Watch is now official. Apple CEO Tim Cook filled in the missing details on the company’s first smartwatch at a press event in San Francisco. So when can you pick one up? Here’s everything you need to know about getting your hands on an Apple Watch. When The Apple Watch will …

Apple will display its new line of smartwatches in designated cases at its retail stores. Shara Tibken/CNET Apple finally provided more details about the Apple Watch on Monday, revealing specs, prices and information on where to pick up the wearable device. The answer to the “where” question is simple: To buy the watch in person, consumers will have to either …

Artiphon When is a guitar not a guitar? When it can be laid flat and played as a keyboard! No, we’re not talking about the keytar, although the keytar is pretty sweet; it’s a brand new instrument that’s designed to act like almost any instrument you can think of. Related articles This strange and beautiful object is a 3D-printed violin …

Social network relationships among “official” ISIS accounts as of January 3, 2014. The Brookings Institute Designated terrorist groups have reportedly long used social media to communicate. Al Qaeda and the Taliban have been believed to frequent Facebook, and Hamas has been a well-known devotee of Twitter. Now, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, or ISIS, is thought to also …

A supporter of Ross Ulbricht protests outside his trial in January. Spencer Platt/Getty Images Ross Ulbricht, the convicted founder of online drug marketplace Silk Road, is seeking a new trial based on the premise that prosecutors failed to disclose evidence in a timely fashion. After hearing evidence for nearly a month, a jury in February took less than three hours …

The Aurender Flow digital converter/headphone amplifier Aurender High-end products are, by definition, expensive. There’s a premium for luxury products that can’t always be directly tied to the cost of producing, marketing, and selling them, but bleeding edge performance and excellence in design are requirements to achieve full-fledged high-end status. Even so few buyers push the limits of the designs, but …

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Apple will host an event at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts on March 9. James Martin/CNET It won’t paint your house, butter your toast or fold your laundry. But besides telling time, the Apple Watch may do enough other interesting things to convince iPhone owners to buy it. At least, that’s what Apple’s hoping. The Cupertino, Calif., electronics …

Google Remember back in December when Spotify offered that three-month subscription for 99 cents? Mine ran out just a few days ago, so this is some seriously serendipitous timing. For a limited time, you can get a three-month Google Play Music subscription for $3. That works out to just a buck per month (math win!) for unlimited ad-free listening. When …

Word 2016 as part of the Office 2016 preview. Jason Cipriani/CNET The last time Microsoft released a revamped version of Office for Mac users to enjoy was 2011. Apple released the iPhone 4S in October of 2011, which is ancient when compared to today’s iPhone 6 and 6 Plus. As you may have read on Thursday, Microsoft has delivered on …

T-Mobile on Friday sent out invites to a mysterious New York event, saying cryptically “This one’s a real piece of work.” The invite-only press event is scheduled for 1 p.m. ET on Wednesday, March 18 at Manhattan’s Spring Studios. T-Mobile, which recently made the case that it’s the nation’s third-largest wireless carrier by subscriber base, is riding a strong fourth-quarter …

Eddy Cue, Apple’s head of Internet software and service (left), and Rick Welts, president and chief operating officer of the Golden State Warriors, talk up their new partnership on Apple Pay at Oracle Arena in Oakland, Calif. Shara Tibken/CNET OAKLAND, Calif. — iPhone 5, 5C and 5S owners, you’re in luck. Just like those iPhone 6 and 6 Plus owners, …

The Apple Watch is the first wearable from the company behind the iMac, iPhone and iPad. CNET App-makers are hard at work building apps for the Apple Watch in top-secret conditions that would make Maxwell Smart jealous, according to a new report. Behind those closed doors, Apple is offering guidelines on how Watch apps should work and suggesting that wearers …

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos is now paying Alibaba to attract Chinese consumers. James Martin/CNET E-commerce giant Amazon has, at least for the time being, decided that joining them is sometimes better than trying to beat them. This week the company opened its own digital storefront on rival Alibaba’s Tmall, an online marketplace for consumers in China, which hosts merchant’s storefronts …

Nike Nike on Friday announced four new hardware partners for its Nike+ health and fitness app. Watches, activity trackers and fitness equipment from Garmin, TomTom, Wahoo Fitness and Netpulse will be able to sync with the Nike+ Running App on Android and iOS beginning on March 9. The move to open the platform will give Nike+ users the freedom to …