A Kickstarter success story, The Edge Desk is a single-piece desk and chair that folds up so you can set up a workspace just about anywhere. The whole thing folds down to approximately 7 inches high (17.8 cm) and weighs about 28 pounds (12.7 kg), so you can easily put it in a car trunk, …

You can now control Alexa’s iOS app with your voice, three months after its release. If you’ve got an iPhone or iPad you can now use spoken commands to ask Alexa questions, play music and communicate with your Echo and other devices. But since Apple has its own assistant, Siri, you’ll still have to physically tap the app to activate …

Snap is reportedly venturing even deeper into gaming. The company behind the Snapchat app plans to launch a platform later this year that’ll let users download and play third-party games through the app, reported The Information. The platform has been in the works for at least a year, and Snap already has one publisher lined up to a game, The …

It’s the biggest tournament for the biggest sport on Earth, and it comes around only once every four years. The 2018 FIFA World Cup will feature 32 teams and 64 games across four glorious weeks of action in Russia. In the US, Fox and FS1 will broadcast games in English, and Telemundo and NBC Universo will broadcast games in Spanish. Here’s …

Facebook is trying to get more people to interact with the Stories feature in its main app. The social network on Wednesday announced a few new features for the service, which lets people post a string of photos and videos that automatically disappear after 24 hours. Now, if you reply to a Story, you’ll be able to add other people …

Cheeps! I’m on vacation this week (and next), but before I left I lined up a few sweet deals to tide you over. (And as you’ve no doubt discovered by now, some of CNET’s finest will be filling in the rest of the time.) For example, the Cheapskate is no stranger to VPN deals. A VPN is one of those …

The Slack messaging tool used by many teams around the world has experienced intermittent outages for a little over 3 hours this morning. Surprisingly laid-back users took to Twitter to express their feels. At 12:49 p.m. ET, the company tweeted: Connections have resumed and folks should be able to connect to Slack again. Thanks for hanging in there. https://t.co/jdzxIeLoWA — …

AT&T may be preparing to launch another video streaming service after acquiring all of Otter Media, a report suggests. The company’s plan to take full control of the streaming video venture, first reported last week, will give it a streaming distribution platform — Otter Media owns VRV, which hosts anime service Crunchyroll and digital star network Fullscreen. VRV has also …

Google is moving ahead with Duplex, the stunningly human-sounding artificial intelligence software behind its new automated system that places phone calls on your behalf with a natural-sounding voice instead of a robotic one. The search giant said Wednesday it’s beginning public testing of the software, which debuted in May and which is designed to make calls to businesses and book appointments. Duplex instantly raised …

It looks like the Galaxy Note 9 will become a reality on Aug. 9. Samsung is hosting a Samsung Galaxy Unpacked event at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York, on Aug. 9 at 11 a.m. ET. Invitations for the event went out Wednesday morning. Samsung uses these Unpacked events to unveil its new Galaxy phones. The event will be …