Your first behind-the-scenes glimpse of the White House on Snapchat: a big bowl of apples. The White House joined the popular messaging service turned social network on Monday, promising an inside look at preparations for President Barack Obama’s final State of the Union address on Tuesday. Joining Snapchat is the latest move in a larger …

When it comes to waking up in the morning, are you a frequent snoozer? Snoozing may give you that extra 5-10 minutes of sleep, but science says hitting the snooze button just ends up making you more tired. Almost every alarm clock out there has a snooze setting that tempts you to go back to sleep for a few minutes, …

This story is part of CES 2016. Our editors bring you complete CES 2016 coverage and scour the showroom floor for the hottest new tech gadgets around. Now playing: Watch this: CNET’S CES Top 10-ish 23:22 CES, the world’s biggest and splashiest showcase for the latest and greatest in consumer electronics, is a victim of its own outsize expectations. Yes, …

The Amazon Echo has a New Year’s resolution: Slim down and lose the power cord. The online retailer plans to release a smaller, portable and cheaper version of the Echo, a digital voice assistant crammed into a cylinder speaker, in the coming weeks, The Wall Street Journal reported Monday, citing anonymous sources. The current Echo can be voice-activated to play …

The term “recording artist” may be applied to anyone who records music, but David Bowie, who died of cancer on Sunday aged 69, was in every sense a true artist. From the start he was an original, and over the decades he donned a succession of personas and guises — pop star, rocker, soul singer, Internet pioneer, avant-garde performer, video …

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John Legere may be one of tech’s most colorful and uncensored CEOs. But he apparently knows when he’s crossed a line. T-Mobile’s CEO on Monday apologized for offensive comments he made last week about the Electronic Frontier Foundation amid a debate over his company’s Binge On unlimited streaming service. But Legere didn’t relent in his defense of Binge On as …

Once upon a time, all desktops and laptops had LEDs that would blink whenever there was hard drive activity. Somewhere along the way, PC manufacturers decided this wasn’t necessary, but I disagree: If your computer is suddenly non-responsive, it can help to know if there’s still drive activity. If there is, it might just be a temporary delay. If not, …

This story is part of CES 2016. Our editors bring you complete CES 2016 coverage and scour the showroom floor for the hottest new tech gadgets around. From Eurovision to the The Super Bowl, some things are better watched with friends. A new app called Cast plans to help you share your viewing even with people who aren’t in the …

Hot or not hot, your looks probably don’t have as much to do with your dating success on Tinder as you would like to believe. Tinder CEO Sean Rad said the smartphone app, which helps users anonymously locate others nearby who are interested in making a love connection, relies on an algorithm to determine users’ “desirability” to make date suggestions. …