Amazon plans to give anyone the option of subscribing to its Prime Music streaming service for $9.99 a month, according to a report by Reuters. That would put Prime Music in direct competition with streaming services like Spotify and Apple Music, which also charge about $10 a month for unlimited access to a trove of …

Ask any gamer out there about playing games on a PC, and they’ll tell you about Alienware. The Miami-based company has been building gaming PCs for 20 years. It’s become one of the most recognizable computer brands out there thanks to its alien-head logo, with glowing eyes peering out, that’s emblazoned on its other-worldly looking computers. One of its most …

Google’s Chromecast is due for a victory lap, after its shipments nearly doubled those of upscale rival Apple TV earlier this year, researcher IHS said Friday. In the first three months of 2016, Google shipped 3.2 million Chromecasts to market versus the 1.7 million Apple TVs shipped in the same period, according to IHS. Before that, Apple had always beat …

Congrats to Cherry A. of Boston for winning a collectible “Captain America: Civil War” art book last week. Are the NBA playoffs driving your own hoop dreams? We’re giving away a Blast Basketball Replay, which records and analyzes data on your court performance and suggests drills to make you a better player. The system from Blast Motion, a maker of …

If your brain, like mine, is already stuffed to the gills with passwords, then the prospect of using one single sign-on to get into your paid streaming TV apps will come as sweet relief. People who pay for TV from cable companies Comcast, Cox and MediaCom will soon see a new standard, called TV Everywhere (TVE), which will use their …

The next iPhone may have Intel inside. Some versions of Apple’s next flagship phone will stock an Intel wireless chip rather than a Qualcomm processor, according to a report from Bloomberg News. China’s iPhones would keep their Qualcomm chips, as would Verizon models in the US, according to Bloomberg’s source. The AT&T devices in the US would use an Intel …

Now playing: Watch this: How to make your laptop battery last longer 1:24 My aging MacBook Pro doesn’t hold a charge like it once did. That’s not surprising, since it’s nearly five years old and batteries tend to lose their capacity over time. And the less time my MacBook’s battery lasts, the more I fear I’ll wake up one morning …

Lenovo is making more VR-related products than simply the Tango phone. One of them is a live-streaming, 360-degree camera. The camera had been expected to be unveiled at Lenovo Tech World 16 in San Francisco this week, but it wasn’t. However, a Lenovo executive discussed its efforts with VR-focused site UploadVR. The camera uses Movidius Myriad 2 processors and can …

This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. Apple’s iMessage is available today only on Apple products like iPhones and Macs, but the company could bring its encrypted messaging service to phones powered by Google’s Android software, according to a report Thursday. The company plans to announce the move at its …

The geeks are putting up the velvet rope. Geek-culture media brands Nerdist and Geek & Sundry plan to launch a paid membership service this year that mixes exclusive video and other content with perks such as merchandise discounts, access to offline events and the ability to essentially video-conference into a live show with the programs’ stars. Their free content will …