The new HTC U12 Plus has been officially announced. It has squeezable sides like the U11 and four cameras.  “A phone that is more than the sum of its parts.” That’s how HTC is teasing its latest flagship phone, set to be revealed on May 23. But what if those parts were iPhone parts? As in — …

LG’s new LG G7 ThinQ phone has a notch, but the company doesn’t want you to think it’s copying Apple’s iPhone X.  “We planned the notch design before Apple,” LG’s mobile chief Hwang Jeong-hwan told The Korea Herald.  We don’t know whether that means LG had the idea before Apple (how would they know?) or whether LG is simply saying the …

With more and more websites using autoplay video — present company included — now is a good time to review how to mute the audio playing in one of your many open browser tabs. I’ll cover the different ways you can mute tabs in Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Opera and Safari. The big news in browser tab muting is that with Windows …

Part One: Patrick goes to Google “The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.” — Orson Welles It’s a sunny day at Google’s campus and I’m serpentining between giant statues of Android mascots. In my hand is a cigarette pack-sized camera with two lenses on it. My phone has two rear cameras so how is this any different? It …

If you rely on a tiny gadget to help your heart function, you might have wondered: Could it be hacked?  Yes, it’s theoretically possible. And that’s why Abbott (formerly St. Jude Medical) is recalling some 350,000 implantable defibrillators to help protect patients from any spy-movie style assassination attempts or other issues. This follows a similar recall of 465,000 pacemakers last …

AT&T told the judge deciding its antitrust case that it sees no need to put conditions on its merger with Time Warner, according to a brief filed late Thursday. The US Department of Justice is suing to block AT&T’s $85 billion deal to acquire Time Warner. The trial concluded earlier this week and the decision is now in the hands …

If you miss the good old days of Vine and its 6-second video clips, we’ve got bad news for you. v2, the expected successor to Vine, has been postponed indefinitely, according to v2 creator and Vine co-founder Dom Hofmann. Vine was incredibly popular in its heyday as the go-to place to upload and watch short and funny videos. Twitter bought …

Coming to Google Assistant near you: movie-ticket purchasing. Just add that to the long list of what Google Assistant can do. In conjunction with Fandango, Google Assistant can now help you research a film, select a theater near you to see it, or find out where it will be playing when it opens — all via voice. You can also …

First things first: If you’re an Arrested Development fan and you haven’t seen this, stop what you’re doing. Go ahead, I’ll wait. “Mr. F.” Did you catch that?! Boba Fett. Mr. F! Oh, my sides. Speaking of Star Wars, and this hallowed May the Fourth “holiday,” I’ve wanted the Sphero R2-D2 App-Enabled Droid ever since it emotively waddled into my …

I faced off with a fellow CNET editor, lightsaber ready. His was ready, too. We stared at each other in our mirror-lensed headsets, and started swinging away. Multiplayer AR, kinda-sorta, has arrived. Disney and Lenovo teamed up last year to make a Star Wars-themed AR headset toy, Star Wars Jedi Challenges, that uses a phone to project holograms to do …