Now playing: Watch this: Building a PC? 5 rookie mistakes — and how to fix them 1:10 The Oculus Rift and HTC Vive are here. But your PC has to be pretty powerful to use these cutting-edge VR headsets. If your PC is lacking performance, don’t worry. We’re going to show you how to build …

Don’t bother trying to find the perfect pair of headphones: Nura wants to do the work for you. This group of Australian entrepreneurs is currently seeking funding on Kickstarter for a new kind of headphones, and it’s promising an experience tailor-made for your ears. The Melbourne-based inventors claim that they’ve built a form of automatic hearing detection that allows the …

Earlier rumors have suggested that HTC will be building the next Nexus smartphone for Google. We now have a look at what that phone may look like when it is released later this year. The image was published on Tuesday by Android Police, a tech site that has reported accurate leaks in the past. The website reports that the phone …

An archive of Prince’s official and unofficial websites has launched as a free online museum. The Prince Online Museum currently features seventeen of The Purple One’s websites, with the oldest dating back to 1994. Easily browsable on a timeline, each site has its own profile page with a brief summary about it. The content of the sites ranged from lyric …

Nvidia’s GeForce GTX 1080 and 1070 are two of the best new PC graphics cards you can buy. They’re currently expensive and hard to find, but they’re so good that you might want to wait to buy a GPU, period, until they come down in price. Enlarge Image Gigabyte Here’s another potential reason to wait: you’ll be able to buy …

Typeface nerds are a different kind of geek, the kind that will spend hours researching to find the right font choice to fit a particular design. But what if there was a gadget that could scan any printed text and immediately identify the name of the font and the exact shade of color it as it appears? That’s the concept …

When it comes to fingerprint security on a smartphone, slow and inaccurate reads that waste time are the only things worse than having no fingerprint reader at all. For impatient types like me, fast, reliable biometric scanning unlocks the phone sooner, and gets me on my way to doing something actually important, like scrolling through Facebook Liking pictures of my …

When CNET’s Andrew Hoyle reviewed Huawei’s P9 smartphone, he found the camera to be quite spectacular. But now Huawei has come under fire for implying that the camera is better than it actually is. The Chinese electronics giant uploaded the picture above to its Google+ page, writing alongside it in a now deleted post: “We managed to catch a beautiful …

The Chinese Communist Youth League and CD REV, a rap group from southwest China, want to set the record straight on what the real China is like. The solution? A bizarre English-language hip hop track called “This is China” and an accompanying video, both of which dropped on Chinese micro-blogging site Weibo late last week. The 4-minute song, which has …

Google Doodle is hosting the best Fourth of July party ever, and you’re all invited! The Doodle of the day shows the 50 stars from the American flag enjoying an Independence Day barbecue. Per my random decision to assign states to each star, Texas is grilling hot dogs. Eleven states are eagerly lined up, with hot dog buns ready for …