Have you been dying to try the Canon 5D Mark IV? Itching to see what all the Sony A7 series fuss is about? Had your eye on the Nikon 200-500mm lens but didn’t want to blindly drop $1,400? Now’s your chance to find out by taking advantage of gear-rental holiday discounts. A lot of the …

For popstar Britney Spears, Twitter hacking is toxic. An early morning tweet from Sony Music’s global account on Monday proclaimed the singer dead “by accident,” followed by a hashtag #RIPBritney. Sony Music’s original tweet, followed by its retraction. Both have now been taken down. Via Twitter Shortly after, another tweet followed, blaming hackers from a “new IP” address for spreading …

Your Kindle can do a lot more than just download books from Amazon. It can send documents, share books, play hidden games and much more. 1. Take screenshots You can take a screenshot by pressing the two opposite corners of the screen at the same time on the Kindle Voyage and Paperwhite. To take a screenshot on the Kindle Touch, …

Apple is working with Consumers Reports to figure out why the reviews site’s battery test results for the new MacBook Pro do not match the gadget giant’s lab tests and field data. Consumer Reports published a surprise report Thursday saying it could not recommend any new MacBook Pro model due to its erratic, if not bad battery life. “The MacBook …

One of the most original, weirdest (in a good way), critically-acclaimed TV shows to debut in 2016 was “Atlanta.” And in a year that brought us “Stranger Things” and “Westworld,” that’s saying a lot. The half-hour FX surrealist comedy-drama follows Earnest “Earn” Marks, portrayed by Donald Glover (no relation to Danny), as he attempts to venture into the music business …

Fitbit has withdrawn a year-old patent complaint filed with the US International Trade Commission that sought a ban on the import of Jawbone’s fitness tracker into the US. Fitbit, also a fitness tracker maker, told the ITC in a Friday filing that it’s no longer pursing patent claims against Jawbone because its rival appears to be in financial turmoil. Jawbone …

Most music lovers first got acquainted with digital audio in 1982, the year the CD came out. TV remained 100 percent analog from the very earliest broadcasts right up through 1997 when the DVD debuted, and analog over-the-air broadcasts in the US only started to be phased out in 2009. That’s not so long ago, but since then analog TV …

There’s a part of eBay that caters to the superrich. Sure, the website offers 1 billion live listings at any given time, so there’s usually something for everyone. Yet, a choice few items that come to the online marketplace are extremely rare, extremely expensive or both. eBay gave us an exclusive list of the highest-priced sales worldwide in 15 categories …

First things first: Maxing out your budget for headphones only makes sense for folks who really love music, because with a great headphone you’ll get more out of it. You’ll hear “deeper” into the mix, details the band and the engineers sweated over for weeks or months, fine-tuning the sound of the music that was always there, but unheard by …

So I guess I can finally stop trying to perfect my pronunciation of Cyanogen, the company that tried and failed to kill Google’s Android OS and never grabbed much mainstream appeal. The startup announced late Friday that “as part of the ongoing consolidation of Cyanogen,” it’s shutting down all services and nightly builds on December 31. “The open source project …