EE owes some of its customers money. EE EE customers who were wrongly charged for using data abroad are due a payout, the alliterative mobile operator has said, blaming a “configuration error” for the charges mix-up. Affected customers are those who used data between October 2012 and October 2014 in a country outside the EU. …

The Qualcomm booth at the Consumer Electronics Show this month, where the chipmaker repeatedly talked about the “Internet of Everything.” Sarah Tew/CNET Well before the Internet of Things becomes an actual thing, chipmakers are jockeying to get a piece of the potentially huge new market. References to the Internet of Things — the idea of connecting more devices and objects …

They’ve made a custom Groot swing and a that lets kitties simply poop into Mordor, and now the Hollywood prop designers behind the web series “Super-Fan Builds” are back with their finest creation yet– a stroller taken straight from the streets of Gotham. Related Links Tardis stroller for the young ‘Doctor Who’ fan ‘Jaws’ baby bed is horrifyingly awesome ‘Jaws’ …

Juan Garzón/CNET Microsoft’s Windows 10 event on Wednesday should give us a chance to see what the company has planned for its future operating system. And while Windows 10 isn’t expected until later this year, it’ll mean we have a better idea of how well (or not) Microsoft’s plans will fit in with the devices we’re using now, and the …

KeyTouch waiting to unlock a Mac. Jason Cipriani/CNET With the launch of iOS 8, Apple introduced a new feature called Handoff. The feature connects your nearby iOS and OS X devices to each other, making it possible to seamlessly switch between devices while not having to worry about losing your place or work. One feature missing from Handoff is the …

The HTC One M8 sports a 4-megapixel “ultrapixel” camera, but the M9 is rumoured to go high-resolution instead. Sarah Tew/CNET The HTC One M9 could be just weeks away, and is set to bring with it HTC’s first smartwatch. That’s according to the latest rumours surrounding the follow-up to last year’s HTC One M8. The new flagship is likely to …

The Golden State Warriors have been outfitting their basketball arena in Oakland, Calif., with Apple’s iBeacons and other technology. Shara Tibken/CNET OAKLAND, Calif. — Floor tiles that generate electricity when people walk on them. Streetlamps that transmit data to people passing beneath them. Virtual reality videos that make fans feel like they’re at the game when they’re really just sitting …

AT&T is taking a $7.9 billion loss due to longer life spans for its retirees. AT&T AT&T expects to record a pretax loss of $10 billion in the fourth quarter because its former employees are living longer and certain copper assets have been abandoned. AT&T’s results will include a $7.9 billion charge partly due to costs incurred by changes in …

The KEF LS50s, shown in white; they’re also available in black KEF If you’re like me and spend a lot of time hunkered down in front of a computer, and you love music, investing in a good set of monitor speakers makes a lot of sense. Some of the larger monitors in the following survey can also be used as …

Aurisonics Rockets Aurisonics Chances are, you’ve never heard of Aurisonics, so here’s a little backstory: it’s a company based in Nashville, Tenn., founded in 2011 by audio engineer and audio products designer Dale Lott. Frankly, I’d never been all that impressed with Aurisonic’s other headphones, so I had low expectations for the Rockets. But when I first tried them on …

SpaceX’s CRS-5 Dragon spacecraft in orbit. The company’s latest project aims to connect Earthlings to the Net using thousands of satellites. SpaceX Elon Musk, the man who’s determined to move our civilization to Mars, will also tackle creating an Internet in space. The CEO of Tesla Motors and SpaceX said Friday night that he will use a fleet of satellites …

On January 21, Microsoft is expected to reveal more information about Windows 10 for phones and tablets and detail how the universal operating system will change across devices. Nick Statt/CNET The next chapter in Microsoft’s corporate history may be called Windows 10, but the name of the book should be “Once More, With Feeling.” The company on Wednesday will host …

President Barack Obama’s desire for more communities to have access to faster broadband networks could throw the Federal Communications Commission, the agency tasked with making that vision a reality, into a nasty legal battle. President Obama made remarks supporting municipal broadband deployments during a speech at Cedar Falls Utilities in Cedar Falls, Iowa, this week. Official White House photo by …

Now playing: Watch this: What’s new on Netflix in January 2015 2:08 Editors’ Note, January 16, 2015: Added new content to both Netflix and Amazon sections. A new month means new videos online. Netflix’s biggest addition in January 2015 arguably is the entire Friends series that aired on NBC from 1994-2004. Amazon Prime subscribers won’t be getting that show, but …

Microsoft For the few people who own a compatible Smart TV from Samsung, Skype just got better. Microsoft, which owns the video-calling software brand, says an updated Skype app is available now for 2014 Samsung TVs that feature a built-in camera. As far as we can tell, that amounts to the HU9000 series of curved 4K Ultra HD TVs — …