Google celebrated the life of Samuel Johnson on Monday with an animated Doodle defining the word “lexicographer”. Monday would have marked Johnson’s 308th birthday. He was well known as a lexicographer himself, as well as a poet, essayist, critic and biographer. It took him nine years of work to publish his “A Dictionary of the …

Streaming device maker Roku could have an Amazon Echo-type smart speaker in the works, a Variety report published Monday suggests. Meanwhile, Los Gatos, California-based Roku is looking to raise as much as $220 million when it goes public next month, according to an SEC filing Monday. Roku declined to confirm or comment on the Variety report, which is based on …

[dzs_video source=”https://cnet.redvideo.io/2022/06/03/c7e10851-d64b-46d0-a2b3-fd083e9419bb/homepod-rumors-site2_720h3200k.mp4″ cover=”https://www.cnet.com/a/img/resize/92b37423886f807f3e6ef0b9b2ae5aaeacb507e2/hub/2017/09/14/fdda7049-e2c2-477d-9fa7-1abc4ec29458/fl-sol-20.jpg?auto=webp&fit=cover&height=482&width=856″ config=”skinauroradefault” width=”100%” height=”600″ logo=”https://joggingvideo.com/wp-content/uploads/tdn_pic_2.png” config=”skinauroradefault” autoplay=”off” cue=”on” loop=”off” type=”video” logo=”0000″ logo_link=”5555″ responsive_ratio=”default” adarray='{{openbrace}}{“source”:”1111″,”time”:”2222″,”type”:”3333″,”ad_link”:”4444″,”skip_delay”:”5″}{{closebrace}}’]

[dzs_video source=”https://cnet.redvideo.io/2022/05/13/bf5e0993-6669-4475-9ee0-b20b88a8100a/techtoday-140522-sb_720h3200k.mp4″ cover=”https://www.cnet.com/a/img/resize/90b9473528932aaf9fbbe80cc47b195d38cc1663/hub/2017/09/18/568e7ef5-325c-4884-b52a-38d7a7285b53/emmysawards.jpg?auto=webp&fit=cover&height=482&width=856″ config=”skinauroradefault” width=”100%” height=”600″ logo=”https://joggingvideo.com/wp-content/uploads/tdn_pic_2.png” config=”skinauroradefault” autoplay=”off” cue=”on” loop=”off” type=”video” logo=”0000″ logo_link=”5555″ responsive_ratio=”default” adarray='{{openbrace}}{“source”:”1111″,”time”:”2222″,”type”:”3333″,”ad_link”:”4444″,”skip_delay”:”5″}{{closebrace}}’]

India’s Prime Minister shook up the country late last year when he killed 500-rupee and 1,000-rupee notes and coins (about $7 and $15). People quickly turned to digital payments, and now Google wants a piece of that action.    The search giant launched a new digital payment app called Google Tez for the Indian market on Monday. The app supports English and …

Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that’s taken over our lives. Enlarge Image Real people aren’t moved. CNET The tech world often behaves as if everything revolves around the tech world. So when Apple unveiled its new “smartphone of the future,” the iPhone X, every aspect was scrutinized and every expert opinion swiftly offered. What, though, …

TV’s biggest night is upon us. The 69th Emmy Awards take place on Sunday in Los Angeles. The shows starts at 5 p.m. PT. Stephen Colbert will host. CBS will broadcast (Disclosure: CBS is CNET’s parent company). And you can check out TV Guide’s Emmy Awards guide to see all of the nominees. If you don’t have cable or satellite …

Every year we see dozens of me-too Android phones that ape the iPhone, except for one big, round giveaway: they lack Apple’s instantly recognizable home button. Now that the iPhone X trades in its most defining visual feature, it’s going to be easier than ever to make Android phones that look like an expensive iPhone, at a fraction of the …

One of the strangest eBay auctions of the year will end tonight, with the seller in a jail cell. Of course, anyone following the life of Martin Shkreli, popularly nicknamed “Pharma Bro,” may not be all that surprised by the situation. Enlarge Image Shkreli’s listing as of Friday afternoon. eBay, Martin Shkreli Shkreli, a pharmaceuticals entrepreneur who rose to infamy …

The Rolling Stones’ “Their Satanic Majesties Request” album is an outlier in the band’s canon. The music was a clean break from the Stones’ trademark blues-based hard rock, so it wasn’t well received by fans and critics when “Satanic” was released in early December, 1967. It followed the Beatles’ “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” by five months, and where …