If you’ve ever caught yourself scanning a room for outlets, or worrying about how long you can eke out a charge on your phone, then this collection of battery-saving Android apps is for you. These apps are helpful even if you’ve got a built-in battery-saving feature to help you in a dire situation, and even …

After you have started an iMovie project on your iPhone and perhaps added a title sequence and video effects, it’s time to think about adding a soundtrack or sound effects, adjusting audio levels or recording audio of your own for a voiceover effect. Adding audio effects makes your movie feel less like a collection of video clips and more like …

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Someday you’ll tell your kids about when we all had VR headsets made of cardboard. Google may be trading in the Cardboard headset for plastic this year, according to a report. Virtual reality is going to be a big part of 2016 with several game system headsets launching in the next few months. Does that mean the next Super Bowl …

Telstra mobile customers across the country have faced a major outage today after a node failure knocked out voice and data for customers network-wide. But while Telstra’s network is designed to cope with problems in its infrastructure, the telco says an “embarrassing human error” was to blame for the fault. Shortly after lunchtime Tuesday, the telco’s service status page was …

No, that’s not a typo. Through President’s Day, the Microsoft Store is selling Vaio’s Z Canvas tablet for $1,200 off the regular price. If you’re the right kind of customer, this could be the computer deal of the year. Update, 9:33 a.m. PT: The Vaio Z Canvas appears to be out of stock at Microsoft’s online store. You could still …

Nike Vision has a new line of sunglasses out for runners this spring, and the top-end Vaporwing Elite and Vaporwing will run you $395 (about £275 or AU$560). That’s the kind of price we’re used to seeing for so-called smart glasses, but these sunglasses don’t recharge or have any electronics in them. Yet Nike says a considerable amount of technology …

iMovie for iOS makes it easy to add photos to your movie project, complete with the Ken Burns effects of slowly panning across and zooming in and out of photos. To add a photo to your project, tap the Media Library button that you used to add video clips to your timeline — it features a little film strip and …

Beauty and tech are both wildly popular things we spend our money on, so it was only a matter of time before the two worlds collided. In fact, this year’s CES threw its first ever Beauty Summit to show off the new ways technology is creeping into makeup bags and medicine cabinets. This isn’t about better makeup brushes, new skin …

The biggest moments of Super Bowl 50 had nothing to do with the play on the field. The big game drew 111 million TV viewers to see the Denver Broncos trounce the Carolina Panthers on Sunday. But if you kept an eye on #SB50, you’d have noticed social media going ape for the halftime show featuring Coldplay, Beyonce and Bruno …