Dole’s wearable banana uses LEDs and sensors to display messages and track distance and heart rate. You can also eat it. Screenshot by Nick Statt/CNET Before the Apple Watch, there was the Dole banana. The world’s largest producer of fruits and vegetables, Dole has sponsored the Tokyo Marathon since 2008 and supplied bananas to potassium-deficient …

Sarah Tew/CNET Users on Lenovo’s forums have discovered that the Chinese company has been preloading some consumer PC models with a software called Superfish Visual Discovery. In short, the software tracks your searches and browsing habits (even on secure sites) and uses this information to place additional advertisements on the sites you visit. It’s unclear what models have come preloaded …

Nicole Cozma/CNET Lots of tools claim to be useful for your PC. Whether an application cleans out junk files, duplicates, or other nasties, a lot of the time it wants to take a spot in your right-click menu. Supposedly, this is “for your convenience,” but most of us know what’s convenient and what’s just more bloat for Windows. CCleaner released …

Google’s Inbox email app is now available for the iPad. Google Google is expanding the reach of its latest email application onto more platforms. In a blog post Thursday, Google said that its Inbox email app is now available on the iPad and Android tablets. Previously, the app was restricted to the iPhone and Android smartphones, though it was also …

David Katzmaier/CNET When Samsung first announced its lineup of SUHD at CES 2015, we expected their serious specifications to stipulate stupendous spending. And Samsung has succeeded in spades. According to a leak from hdguru.com, a site with an excellent record of calling these sorts of things around this time of year, industry sources tag the new sets with a starting …

The US Treasury sees electronic transactions as more efficient and secure. Eric Piermont/AFP/Getty Images You’ll now be able to pay off certain bills to the government via PayPal. The US Department of Treasury announced on Wednesday that its Pay.gov payment site will now accept both PayPal and Dwolla. Both services let you send money online to individuals, businesses, and now …

Now playing: Watch this: Block ads from appearing in apps on your Samsung Smart… 1:03 Another week, another problem with Samsung’s Smart TVs. Fresh off the heels of the company’s recent “spygate” scandal, reports have surfaced that claimed Samsung was placing ads inside of apps on some Smart TV models. One such app affected by this was Plex, an app …

Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei has already brought his Lego portraits of international political prisoners to the site of notorious federal prison Alcatraz. Now, he’s bringing them to smartphone cases. Andualem Arage was convicted of working with an opposition party in Ethiopia, and sentenced to life in prison in 2012. (Click to enlarge.) Gooey Gooey, a UK-based maker of mobile …

Sony Audiophiles, you’re not totally happy with the the sound quality of your top-of-the-line digital player and not sure what to blame? Turns out, it might just be the SD card you’re using. At least Sony thinks so. According to the Wall Street Journal, the company announced today a new “Premium Sound” memory card, called the SR-64HXA, that will start …

Using the Force to move an X-Wing out of the swamp was easy. But I need more work on my robot raptor fetch game. At this year’s New York Toy Fair, I got a taste of how tech is transforming playtime. But you’ll need a tablet or smartphone to get the most out of these new toys: Now playing: Watch …

In July last year the Australian Communications and Media Authority announced a new framework for how 1800 and 13/1300 calls would be charged when made from mobile phones. Mobile telecommunications providers had previously come under fire for charging for 1800 calls which were free from landlines. A ‘Fair Calls for All’ campaign from the Australia Communications Consumer Action Network had …

The Federal Communications Commission’s latest wireless spectrum auction, which raised a whopping $45 billion for the federal government, may have filled the government’s coffers but it was a “disaster” for American mobile customers, said T-Mobile CEO John Legere. John Legere, CEO of T-Mobile, speaks at an Un-carrier event in SF in 2014. Josh MIller/CNET The FCC’s most recent auction — …

Google’s Spiral 2 prototype currently has a 5-megapixel camera that you could swap out for a more powerful lens. Juan Garzón/CNET If you’ve ever wished you could pick from a pile of parts and make your own smartphone, Project Ara is your Android wish come true. Run out of Google’s Advanced Technology and Projects group (ATAP), Ara proposes that phone …

Matt Elliott/CNET Suffering from tab overload? If your browsing habits have you opening too many tabs during the course of a day, you can offload some to Air Browser, a Mac app that lets you access up to seven websites from the menu bar. When you launch Air Browser, it puts an icon in your menu bar. When adding a …

The Prime Minister wants data retention laws to be passed “swiftly”. Tony Abbott on Facebook Prime Minister Tony Abbott has warned that Australia’s law enforcement agencies face “unilateral disarmament” in the eyes of criminals if metadata laws are not passed “swiftly”. The comments came at a doorstop interview during which the PM discussed child protection, accompanied by Dan Tehan, chairman …