The rumor mill for the next iPhone has been running full speed lately. On Monday, a graphic designer shared renderings he created of what Apple‘s next iPhone might look like. Benjamin Geskin posted a series of renderings he made for an iPhone to his Twitter account. He based the renderings off a series of rumors …
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The Samsung HW-K950 and Sonos Playbase are two of the finest sound systems I’ve heard in ages. The HW-K950 is a four-piece sound bar-wireless subwoofer-wireless surround speaker system with a $1,299/£1,299/AU$1,999 price tag, and the PlayBase is a $699/£699/AU$999 sound base. Both were favorably reviewed by Ty Pendlebury here on CNET, and those reviews have in-depth information about the products. …
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If you’ve been struggling to find enough space to store your drone’s footage when you’re out and about, Seagate has something for you. The storage vendor announced today the Seagate DJI Fly Drive, its first portable storage device created in partnership with drone maker DJT. No, this is not a drive that you mount on your drone; rather, it’s for …
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If your inbox is out of control with hundreds of newsletters, you’re not alone. The service Unroll.me was born from this rapidly growing problem. Once you connect your Gmail account, it skims your email for newsletters to allow you to either unsubscribe from them or roll all of them up into a single digest email. As it turns out, Unroll.me …
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LinkedIn A half-billion members and counting. LinkedIn said Monday that it’s now crossed the 500 million member threshold. The total is up from the 467 million the professional network announced in October. Facebook has more than 1.8 billion monthly users and Twitter has 319 million. LinkedIn no longer tracks monthly users. In October it said it had 106 million. Other …
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Almost one out of three people who use a free trial to try out a streaming video service end up subscribing, researcher Parks Associates said Monday. That “sizeable portion” of trial users dwarfs the amount of people who abuse free try-outs, Parks senior analyst Glenn Hower said. “There is a potential for free trial abuse, but only roughly 1 percent …
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Music-streaming company Spotify is looking to debut dedicated hardware, according to a job posting noticed by tech blogger Dave Zatz. The “Senior Product Manager” would work on a “category-defining product” akin to the Pebble Watch, Amazon Echo and Snap Spectacles, a cached version of the posting reads. The idea of Spotify-dedicated hardware makes a lot of sense, for more reasons …
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Nearly a year ago, Yi Technology announced development of a 360-degree VR camera rig using Google’s Jump platform. Today, at the NAB show in Las Vegas, the imaging company showed off the results: the Halo VR camera. Halo isn’t just one camera, but 17 of them. Using the company’s 4K action cams, the array literally one-ups GoPro’s 16-camera Odyssey Jump …
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Jimmy Wales is hoping the formula that made Wikipedia popular will have the same effect for battling fake news stories online. The Wikipedia co-founder is launching “Wikitribune,” an open collaboration featuring professional and community journalists as well as other contributors creating fact-checked stories for the web. The new site seemingly is going to be different than WikiNews, the Wikimedia Foundation’s …
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CNET’s Cheapskate scours the web for great deals on PCs, phones, gadgets and much more. Questions about the Cheapskate blog? Find the answers on our FAQ page. And find more great buys on the CNET Deals page. A color laser for $75?! Yes, please. Dell I’ll never buy another inkjet printer — not when I can get a color laser …
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