Modular phones sound like a great idea: Add the bits you want to custom-build your own dream smartphone. So far, however, Google’s Project Ara and LG haven’t managed to make them work. Perhaps Facebook could give it a go next, as the social network attempts to patent a modular device. Business Insider spotted the new patent …

It’s been a long time since Razer was satisfied building merely gaming mice, keyboards, and headphones. Every January, the company shows off a crazy new computer at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas — remember the three-screen laptop? — and now, Bloomberg reports Razer is working on a phone as well. We don’t know much about the device, mind you …

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Samsung is reportedly working on Bluetooth earphones that work with Samsung’s new Bixby voice assistant. The earphones are expected to be available around the same time as the Galaxy Note 8, according to Etnews.  Since the Note 8 “phablet” — translation: part phone, part tablet — is scheduled to arrive sometime in “late August,” we likely won’t have to wait …

This is part of our Road Trip 2017 summer series “The Smartest Stuff,” about how innovators are thinking up new ways to make you — and the world around you — smarter.  Snowflakes flutter around my face, taking me back to my childhood in Ohio where I’d tilt back my head to gaze at the swirl of tiny crystals spiraling toward my …

Now playing: Watch this: Apple’s BeatsX headphones are just the right fit 2:32 If you thought Beats’ neckband-style Bluetooth sports headphone was a little too expensive at $150, Best Buy currently has the black version on sale for $100 — or $50 off — as part of its Black Friday in July sale that ends tomorrow (July 22). Best Buy …

Do you use YouTube’s own web-based video editor to cut together your YouTube videos?  Statistically, you probably don’t. Google has noticed that less than 0.1 percent of all YouTube creators are using that particular feature, and so it — and YouTube’s Photo Slideshows feature, which I can’t say I’ve ever heard of — are officially going away on September 20.  …

Do you think the creators of Pokemon Go should have to fill out a 10-page event-permit application each time you want to play the augmented reality game in a public park? Neither does a Wisconsin district judge, who just pressed pause on a local ordinance that singled out AR games for particularly tough treatment. Some three months after Candy Lab, …

Now playing: Watch this: This app turns your Mac or PC into a super-cheap Apple… 2:18 Matt Elliott/CNET If you’ve got an old iMac lying around — or any Mac or PC for that matter — you can repurpose it as a cheap alternative to an Apple TV so you can stream your iPhone or Android phone to its larger …

 Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that’s taken over our lives. Woz believes iPhones are worth it. Sean Gallup / Getty Images In the end, it comes down to love. That’s seems to be Steve Wozniak’s view about buying high-priced Apple products. Speaking to journalists in Dongguan, China, earlier this week, the Apple co-founder explained why …