Don’t run Chrome or Firefox without OneTab. Seriously. Screenshot by Rick Broida/CNET If you’re anything like me, you keep a lot of browser tabs open. And unless your PC is a serious powerhouse, that can choke performance across the whole system. In my case, trying to run more than 8-10 tabs in Google Chrome results …

Despite a shrinking market share and sluggish sales, Samsung remains the smartphone leader. CNET Apple may have sold 47.5 million iPhones last quarter, but Samsung still took home a bigger slice of the smartphone market, according to a report released Thursday by IDC. During the second quarter of 2015, Samsung bit off a 21.7 percent slice of the global smartphone …

Future remote controls could sport a fingerprint sensor, as envisioned by Apple. Apple/USPTO Apple has envisioned a TV remote that can access your personal profile and settings based on your fingerprint or retina. A patent application called “Device Configuration for Multiple Users Using Remote User Biometrics” published Thursday by the US Patent and Trademark Office lays out the technology for …

The Xiaomi Mi Note will hit markets in Asia this month. Aloysius Low/CNET For those who really can’t wait for their latest new phone, they can now have it delivered by hand within the hour. One Internet-savvy company, the Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi, has enlisted another, the ride-hailing service Uber, to convey its devices across the city state of Singapore …

Jason Cipriani/CNET You can now adjust the backlight intensity of the Pebble Time. The chance comes after a recent firmware update bringing the smartwatch to version 3.2 of Pebble OS. In order to adjust either setting, your Pebble Time watch will need to be updated to version 3.2. Launch the Pebble Time app on your device and it should prompt …

Meerkat is teaming up with GoPro. Meerkat Some GoPro users will now be able to stream video live from their action cams, Meerkat announced Thursday at the VidCon online video convention in Anaheim, California. The move is the latest in a war against Twitter’s rival live-streaming app Periscope. Meerkat enjoyed enormous popularity in the month following its release on Apple’s …

Apple Music is a subject of concern for Sen. Al Franken and for the group Consumer Watchdog. James Martin/CNET Apple’s streaming-music service may have debuted only a few weeks ago, but already one senator is concerned that the iPhone maker could become a dominant, anticompetitive force. US Senator Al Franken on Wednesday issued a letter to the US Federal Trade …

Australian shoppers could soon pay more on overseas purchases from the likes of eBay and Amazon. eBay Australian shoppers are set to start paying GST on online purchases from overseas after the country’s state and territory leaders offered “in principle” support for the move. The change would see a 10 percent goods and services tax charged on all purchases valued …

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Matt Elliott/CNET A Chrome for iOS update in April introduced pull-down gestures that made it easy to open a new tab or close the current tab when browsing on your iPhone. That was, however, the extent of Chrome’s gestures for the iPhone. Chrome still forced you to tap the forward- and back-arrow buttons to navigate pages while Safari let you …