Rare as they are in today’s handsets, the enduring physical keyboard still pops up from time to time on a mobile phone. And with good reason — for some users, there’s nothing quite like pecking out an email or text on a keyboard. Whether it’s the efficiency of feeling those letters underneath your fingers, or …

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I’ve long been an admirer of Cavalli headphone amps, I’ve heard three or four of them at audio shows over the years, but for one reason or another never got around to trying one at home. Now I have one in my clutches: it’s the Liquid Carbon 2.0, and it runs just $799. Cavalli Audio is based in Austin, Texas, …

As a guy who’s listened to a ton of headphones and spent a lot of time obsessing about sound quality, I have to admit comfort looms large in my assessment of any headphone. After all, if it’s torture to wear for more than 10 minutes, great sound won’t mean much. Enlarge Image The AudioQuest NightOwl. AudioQuest So while I found …

Here’s our brief weekly roundup of the newest video to hit the major online streaming services, such as Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime and wherever else we can dig something up. Hit play below — we’ve folded in some trivia so you’ll know more about what you’re watching. For more information on what’s available to watch online, check out CNET.com/Netpicks or …

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You have no idea where that woman sitting at the table next to you got her awesome red boots. You just know you have to have them. Well, if you snapped a photo, a new Pinterest tool now available to all US users might just make your boot hunt a little more successful. San Francisco-based Pinterest, a digital scrapbooking site …

Your Nintendo Switch has parental controls, enabling restrictions on everything from online access to certain ratings of games. Or, you can be cruel and set daily play timers…and even cut your kid off after a certain time. You can also do this with your phone, without even using the Switch. The Nintendo Switch Parental Controls app is available on Google …

You’ve likely never heard of Torwali, one of 27 highly-endangered Pakistani languages. But now its roughly 80,000 speakers can use their native language to text and make status updates on their Android phones. Zubair Torwali, who heads up an organization that works to promote northern Pakistan’s languages, explained in Google’s Asia blog Friday how a Google engineer helped his group …

There is one setting I change every time I take a Garmin watch out of the box. Many of Garmin’s devices offer the choice of two different recording options: Smart Recording and Every Second Recording. I always make sure to use Every Second Recording. Smart Recording will only record data points when there are changes in direction, speed, heart rate …