Facebook is giving you more control over what you see when you use the social media platform — in particular what appears in your News Feed and who’s allowed to comment on your posts. The social network announced Wednesday that it’s introducing a number of changes, all designed to boost transparency and trust in the …

Microsoft officially put the Cortana app for iOS and Android out to pasture on Wednesday, announcing the end of support for the mobile apps, effective immediately. Reminders and lists created by Cortana users will no longer be accessible through the mobile app, but they still can be used on the Windows 10 Cortana app, Microsoft said in a Microsoft support …

Instagram said Wednesday it’s rolling out a new feature for its short-form video product Reels that allows people to record a video alongside someone else’s video. Re-re-re-remix 🤩 Now you can use the Remix feature in Reels to create your own reel next to one that already exists 🎭 Whether you’re capturing your reaction, responding to friends or bringing your …

DJI’s new $1,299 (£1,249, AU$2,099) FPV drone is here and its incredible speed and awesome first-person perspective means it’s a flying experience unlike anything else I’ve tried before.  FPV stands for “first person view.” And while all drones offer a point-of-view from the front of the craft, it’s been up to hobbyists and racers to move that view from the phone …

The ThinkPad X1 Nano is Lenovo’s lightest ThinkPad ever, weighing just 2 pounds (907 grams), and yet it still retains a lot of what we like about the rest of the bigger and (not much) heavier X1 business laptop line. That list of likes includes solid build quality, strong productivity performance, a comfortable — if small — keyboard, a nice …

Apple could be “several months” away from introducing a mixed-reality headset, according to a report Wednesday from Bloomberg. Various reports have predicted the headset, which would be Apple’s first major new device since 2015, the report noted. Earlier in the March, analyst Ming-Chi Kuo gave 2022 for a timeline. As CNET’s Scott Stein noted, these rumors have been circulating for …

Without a crucial software development tool called the compiler, we’d have to descend into the incomprehensible world of machine-code mutterings before we could control computers. Which is why two researchers who helped develop the compiler, Alfred Aho and Jeffrey Ullman, just won the prestigious 2020 A.M. Turing Award. The collaboration between Ullman and Aho that pioneered compiler technology began in …

So long, laptops — these days we’re doing seemingly everything on smartphones and tablets. Which is great, but sometimes you want your display to hang in the air in front of you, like a traditional monitor. I have just the thing for that situation: EasyAcc has a gooseneck tablet holder that clamps to a table, desk, counter or bedrail and …

Happy Wednesday, fellow cheapskates! A few random notes before we dive into today’s deals: Godzilla vs. Kong debuts today on HBO Max and I am here for it. (So is CNET’s Jen Bisset, who reviewed the new movie.) Alas, there’s no longer a free trial available so you can sneaky-sneaky watch the movie for free, but even if you sign …

If you happened to miss this year’s Super Bowl, you missed a staggering number of commercials for Paramount Plus, the new streaming service that launched March 4. It replaced CBS All Access, adding more shows, movies and live TV to that service’s roster. Read more: CNET’s Paramount Plus review Price tag: $6 a month or $60 annually for the Limited …

Have a cracked iPhone, busted Galaxy or waterlogged Pixel? Verizon wants you to trade it in for a shiny new 5G phone on one of its “premium” unlimited plans.  In a promotion announced on Wednesday, the nation’s largest carrier unveiled a new deal that offers up to $440 in credits towards the price of a new 5G phone for existing …

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