Curious about using your face to unlock your phone? Apprehensive about Face ID and Apple Pay? Apple published an extensive guide on Face ID in advance of the upcoming iPhone X. You can read it all yourself. Also, check out our in-depth look at the security aspects of Face ID and general overview of the …

Amazon’s new Fire TV 4K HDR streamer has been exposed to the world for less than 24 hours, and it’s already part of a sale. A bundle pairing the Fire TV ($70) and an Echo Dot ($50) is now available on the site for a cool $80.  That’s $40 off the full price of both together. It basically means you …

The V30, LG‘s most premium phone of the season, will be available on the country’s three largest carriers starting Thursday, Oct. 5.  The phone will be available online and in retail stores for Verizon right on Oct. 5, without pre-order. On AT&T, you can purchase the phone online that day too, or buy it in retail stores when it will be available …

Owners of Nvidia Shield, get ready to hear it talk back to you for the first time. Nvidia’s streaming/gaming geek dream box is the first TV device to receive Google Assistant, Google’s voice-based answer to Amazon’s Alexa. Just like on select phones and the Google Home speaker, now you can say “OK Google” or “Hey Google” into thin air and watch …

Looking for an upgrade? We got your back! Now is your chance to take home a new Galaxy Note 8, a phone with a 8.9 rating from our editors after some serious testing. Some of its features include a vibrant 6.3-inch OLED screen, Samsung‘s first twin-lens phone that can create pretty depth-effect portraits, a top-of-the-line processor, water resistance, expandable storage …

The worlds of voice assistants and streaming devices are quickly colliding.  In just the past 24 hours, Amazon unveiled a new Fire TV with integration to its Alexa digital butler and the Nvidia Shield became the first TV device to get Google Assistant. For today’s episode, we invited CNET’s TV guru, David Katzmaier, to run through the details of these …

I looked at my colleague as we took a breather at the bathroom sink, moments after we had sat together in a boat. With VR helmets on. No, we weren’t exactly sure what just happened, either. We were right off the Highline — the elevated park and major tourist attraction –at Samsung’s flagship 837 showroom in Manhattan’s Meatpacking District. Here, …

Family Link, Google’s software for getting kids their own Android phones with some parental oversight, is now available to anyone in the US. The company unveiled Family Link in March as an invitation-only service that opens up Gmail accounts and other services needing a Google account to children 12 and under. Now anyone in the US can get Family Link …

If you were planning to use a drone to get a bird’s-eye view of the Statue of Liberty on your next visit, the Federal Aviation Administration is warning you to think again. The same goes for Mount Rushmore and a handful of other Interior Department sites after the FAA issued a directive Thursday that prohibits flights of unmanned aerial vehicles …

It’s time for your weekly guide to finding out what to watch online. If you’re new to this series, there’s a podcast below that lets you know what’s been newly added or coming up soon. Sometimes we include trivia, sometimes we just try to pack in as much info as you can in a minute or two. Since you’re reading …