My dad once told me you can never have too much money or too many Bluetooth speakers. That was timeless advice, because I’ve outright lost a handful of portable speakers by simply forgetting to bring them home after a day outside with them. If you want to stock up on some inexpensive speakers, I have …

Clara Reeves, CEO of Melbourne-based video game studio Hipster Whale, fell in love with programming when she realized it could be an art form. Reeves, who would go on to oversee Hipster Whale’s popular game Crossy Road in its move to Apple’s mobile gaming subscription service, Apple Arcade, never grew out of her childhood passion of building structures out of …

Marshall has announced its latest smart speaker, the compact Uxbridge Voice, which will come in both Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant versions for $199. The voice assistants will make it possible to set up multiroom music, control smart devices and ask questions of Alexa or Google Assistant.   The Uxbridge Voice with Amazon Alexa, available from April 8, is the brand’s …

Every office is now a home office. Maybe it’s the open-office version, taking up a corner of a dining table. Maybe it’s even a kind of upgrade, to the kind of private office virtually no one has anymore, just tucked away in a den or basement. But unless you’ve been a full-time work-from-home type since before the arrival of the …

If you’re wondering what to expect from upcoming AirPods competitors, one way to get an inkling is from the new chips that will power them. And the latest new silicon is Qualcomm’s new QCC514X and the QCC304X, the tech giant’s next-generation, ultra-low-power Bluetooth audio systems-on-a-chip. Designed for entry-level and midtier products, they’ll start appearing in new true wireless earbuds and …

For the most up-to-date news and information about the coronavirus pandemic, visit the WHO and CDC websites. Amazon late last week confirmed its first known coronavirus case in a US warehouse, located in Queens, New York, in the heart of the country’s current virus epicenter. Now, it’s grappling with a handful more cases around the country. Amazon employees in at …

The list of events canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic seems to get longer by the day. But one of the first major events to be canceled was MWC, the annual Barcelona mobile show that was due to take place a month ago. A big concern for many exhibitors set to attend the show was the money they’d lose as …

For the most up-to-date news and information about the coronavirus pandemic, visit the WHO and CDC websites. The coronavirus pandemic has already forced major events such as the SXSW music and tech festival and the Olympics to be canceled or delayed. Now — if a new media report turns out to be accurate — Apple may wait a little longer to launch …

For the most up-to-date news and information about the coronavirus pandemic, visit the WHO and CDC websites. The coronavirus pandemic is most lethal to the elderly and the virus’ spread throughout Spain is the second most deadly in the world. So it’s not surprising that police in Madrid, enforcing the city’s lockdown measures, arrested a 77-year-old on Sunday for being out …

Regardless of the dwindling Android tablet market, Samsung remains one of the few consistent Android tablet makers. Its previous tablet, the Samsung Galaxy Tab S6, ranked on CNET’s best Android tablets of 2020 and Samsung’s new Galaxy Tab A looks like it won’t disappoint for the money, either.  Priced at $280, the tablet features a premium lightweight metal design with …