With Thanksgiving planning upon us and the rest of the holidays right around the corner, there’s a lot of pressure to cook, bake, and show up to events bearing food and drinks. Luckily, all the recipes and drink suggestions you could ever need can fit on your Android phone, thanks to a plethora of cooking …

Candy Crush Soda Saga is bubbling up on mobile — all thanks to massively successful video ads on Facebook. The sequel to popular puzzle game is proving how mobile ads are growing with Facebook. But there are other sweets in this CNET Update roundup. Watch to learn about what’s new in the Google Maps for Android app , how T-Mobile …

You’ll be able to rotate some products 360 degrees. Screenshot by Lance Whitney/CNET Google is trying to make it easier for shoppers to compare products and prices right from their mobile device. Starting this week, the search giant will tweak the shopping results for its mobile website to deliver more details on the products on your holiday list. When you …

Melbourne now has access to Telstra’s 4GX network.Image by Alan Lam, CC BY-ND 2.0 Telstra customers in Melbourne are being promised “extreme speeds” on “one of the world’s fastest mobile services” with the announcement that the telco’s 4GX network has been switched on in the city. 4GX, as Telstra has officially branded its 700Mhz spectrum, is being periodically rolled out …

The provided software for some webcams can be a bit lackluster. While options for adjusting the brightness, contrast, or zoom exist, you may be looking for a way to record the feed. If you’re already using VLC for watching videos or streaming podcasts, did you know you can also use it to record your webcam? Don’t have VLC yet but …

Screenshot by Michelle Starr/CNET If you’ve ever felt cheated that, upon pushing the button, no bacon materialised, then a device invented by a team of hackers will be right up your alley. Team Rabbit Hole, competing in Deconstruction, has built a machine that does indeed deliver delicious cured pork at the push of a button. Related articles Bacon alarm clock …

The “highly complex” Regin malware is hard to detect and defend against, says Symantec. CNET An advanced piece of malware, newly uncovered, has been in use since as early as 2008 to spy on governments, companies and individuals, Symantec said in a report released Sunday. The Regin cyberespionage tool uses several stealth features to avoid detection, a characteristic that required …

Photoshop Streaming brings Adobe’s flagship image-editing software to even low-end Chromebooks that ordinarily just run Web apps. Adobe Systems In the computing industry’s last chapter, Sun Microsystems had a motto: “The network is the computer.” The phrase was open-ended enough to mean just about anything involving its main business, which was selling servers, but it wasn’t enough to keep Sun …

Fostex TH500RP Fostex Five years ago two upstart headphone makers, Audeze and Hifiman, introduced thin-film planar magnetic designs that sounded very different, and to my ears better than the more expensive, top-of-the-line AKG, Audio Technica, Beyerdynamic, Grado, and Sennheiser headphones. Audeze and Hifiman currently offer a range of planar models, but now Fostex has a new headphone, the TH500RP, that …

Google Contributor lets people pay $1 to $3 per month to avoid seeing ads on a handful of websites. Google Sick and tired of all those ads? Google is testing a program called Contributor that lets you subscribe to the Web. Well, not to the whole Web — just to 10 Web publishers that are participating in the Contributor experiment. …

A video ad about Candy Crush Soda Saga is turning into one of the most successful efforts on Facebook yet. King.com Go ahead, try to ignore the latest Candy Crush video game. King.com’s “Candy Crush Soda Saga,” the latest entrant in the company’s popular puzzle game series, was officially released earlier this month. People have been inviting one another to …

Travel can be stressful no matter the time of year, but the holiday season always seems to be worse. You’re stuck managing multiple reservations for flights, hotels and car rentals, facing long lines at security, or stuck in a car for a few hours to visit friends and family. Luckily, we have technology to do some of the hard work …

The Galaxy Note 4 vs. the iPhone 6 Plus Sarah Tew/CNET It’s just about time to put this series to bed. Again. It’s been my pleasure to provide in-depth impressions of what it’s like to actually live with the iPhone 6 Plus, the Galaxy Note 4 and its predecessor, to take things a little beyond the scope that a given …

Now playing: Watch this: Cracking Open: Apple iPhone 6 Plus 4:08 On the outside, the iPhone 6 Plus looks like just a scaled up iPhone 6, but the internal hardware tells a different story. The phones are very similar but far from identical. For more information on the iPhone 6 Plus, including performance and battery life benchmark tests, check out …

CNET EE is the UK’s largest mobile network, but according to its French owners the current situation isn’t going to work out. French company Orange is joint owner of EE with Germany’s Deutsche Telekom. But according to Orange Chief Executive Stéphane Richard, speaking at a Morgan Stanley conference in Barcelona, “The 50-50 situation isn’t a long-term scheme.” EE by gum …