Apple’s new MacBook Air starts at $1,199 (£1,199, AU$1,849), which is $200 more than the old MacBook Air. But in a move that could prove confusing, the old MacBook Air will remain in the MacBook Air line and retain its $999 starting price. The new MacBook Air has a high-resolution Retina display, is a little …

Apple ventured far from its Cupertino home to deliver its annual Mac and iPad news, staging its Tuesday hardware event in Brooklyn, New York. The theme: creativity. The company demonstrated the new faster, more powerful iPad Pro running Adobe Photoshop for iPad and Project Aero, as well as the newly revealed full version of AutoCAD. The company’s new hardware for …

While kicking off the Apple Event Tuesday, Tim Cook noted Macs hit a new milestone.  The Mac now has an active install base of 100 million, Cook said. He also said that more than half of Mac buyers around the world are new to Mac.  This is a developing story. Follow CNET’s live blog for real-time coverage. New iPad Pros, …

Ever noticed your kids clicking on ads when they’re playing mobile games? Turns out many kids’ apps are full of ads, according to a new study, and some children might not be able to tell the ads apart from the games. Researchers led by the University of Michigan Medical School studied 135 popular apps marketed to and used by kids …

Apple just made its iPad Pro a lot more like a personal computer by giving it a USB-C port, a connector that can be used not just to charge it fast but also to link it to monitors, cameras and other gear. Apple helped push the PC industry toward USB-C with its MacBook and MacBook Pro laptops, but its iPhones …

A (rather funny) bug on the Pixel 3 XL has some users seeing double. As posted by Twitter users Jessie Burroughs, Kyle Gutschow and Judner Aura, and reported by Android Police, Google’s big-screen flagship phone is mistakenly displaying two black notches on its display instead of the standard single notch for the front-facing camera. Google confirmed that a fix for it …

The new OnePlus 6T has already made waves by delivering a premium phone experience for close to half the cost of many premium phones. It’s not $1,000 or even $800 — it’s just $549 (about £499 or AU$774) for the 128GB model with 6GB of RAM, or $30 more for the 8GB model. Want to get the latter for just …

Facebook and CEO Mark Zuckerberg have had a rough year so far. They’ve been playing whack-a-mole in the fight against election meddling by Russia and Iran, waged a near-constant battle against fake news and faced a string of controversies over data misuse. Hackers got ahold of the personal data of 29 million Facebook users during a massive security breach. Meanwhile, …

Apple‘s newest iPad Pros unlock more capabilities for the apps on the tablets, the company touted at its “There’s more in the making” event Tuesday in Brooklyn, New York, as it introduced new iPads and Macs. Among the apps discussed:  Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood is coming to the iPad for the first time, with flashy visuals such as sunlight piercing through a window and atmospheric …

T-Mobile will almost certainly take the checkered flag for wireless growth this quarter as consumers continue to flock to the Un-carrier.  The nation’s third-largest wireless carrier said it added 1.6 million net total customers, with 774,000 critical postpaid phone subscribers, or customers who pay at the end of the month. Verizon added 295,000 such customers, while AT&T nabbed 69,000 customers. …