The inventor of basketball made a guest appearance at an NBA event on Friday, scoring a swish 125 years after he created the sport. Dr. James Naismith, a Canadian educator who developed hoops as a wintertime sport while teaching in New England, popped up as a hologram in Toronto during the NBA’s All-Star Technology Summit. …
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Apple is getting into show business, and in a decidedly un-Apple-like way. The technology titan is set to back a series from rapper Dr. Dre, who will produce and star in “Vital Signs,” according to the Hollywood Reporter. Dre (real name Andre Young) joined Apple alongside music producer Jimmy Iovine when the company bought Beats in 2014 for $3 billion. …
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CNET’s Cheapskate scours the Web for great deals on PCs, phones, gadgets and much more. Questions about the Cheapskate blog? Find the answers on our FAQ page. And find more great buys on the CNET Deals page. Cheap things come to those who wait. If you were a Chromebook early adopter, you might have paid as much as $250 to …
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If you unlocked the emoticon keyboard on your iOS device, then bookmark this page. As noted in the guide that detailed how to activate the hidden keyboard on your iOS device, it’s not easy to figure out just what each of the emoticons actually mean. Thankfully, the website linked to above lists various Asian emoticons and their respective meanings. For …
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Enlarge Image Josh Miller/CNET Editor’s note: This week’s giveaway has a Twitter component. Please read the below rules carefully. We’ve turned off comments on this post to avoid confusion as to how to enter the contest. Congratulations to Chris H. of Saint Joseph, Missouri, for winning a Playbulb Sphere color-changing light from MiPow last week. Now for this week’s prize… …
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When listening to a particularly enjoyable song on Apple Music, two buttons vie for your attention: the heart and the plus sign. Should you tap the heart to like the song, or should you tap the “+” to add it somewhere? And while we’re on the topic, what’s the story with the star button that shows up in place of …
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A while back we told you about Charlie, a free app that monitors your calendar and researches contacts you’re meeting with. An hour before the scheduled time, it sends you notable information about the person you’re meeting and the company he or she works for. Now, Charlie has released a Chrome extension designed to make it easier to connect with …
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The consolidation of fitness apps continues. Runkeeper on Friday announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by Japanese footwear manufacturer Asics. The popular fitness app is the latest to be bought by a large athletic apparel company. Under Armour purchased MapMyFitness for $150 million in November of 2013, followed by acquisitions of both Endomondo and …
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You have hundreds of different types of files on your PC, and probably multiple programs that can open each one. Windows makes it easy for you to open up these files by setting up default programs for each file type — images files, for example, will open by default in the Windows 10 Photos app. But what if you’re not …
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Windows 10 is pretty new, but that doesn’t mean we’re not already looking for ways to speed it up. One built-in feature that can help us accomplish this is “fast startup,” which combines the hibernation and shutdown properties to give you a slightly speedier boot-up experience. Fast startup is sort of like shutdown light — when fast startup is enabled, …
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