I never got over my first encounter with a big horn speaker in an audio store in the late 1970s, it was a Klipsch La Scala. A salesman was sitting alone playing the Rolling Stones “Exile on Main Street” album at insanely loud volume, and the music sounded more vibrantly alive than any other speaker …

Now playing: Watch this: Sennheiser HD 202 II closed-back headphones have universal… 1:46 I review a lot of very expensive headphones, and not so expensive ones too. This time I wanted to look at a set of very affordable headphones, so I went for the Sennheiser HD 202 II headphones that cost $24.50 on Amazon in the US and £20 …

Now playing: Watch this: Choosing a portable drive that’s right for you 1:58 Editors’ note: This post was originally published on May 10, 2016 and is periodically updated. The cloud is great. But if you need a serious amount of storage, online backup is never quite enough. Drawbacks such as intermittent broadband access or frustratingly slow speeds mean local storage …

Sometimes it seems like Apple’s products never go on sale. There’s usually a good handful of deals every year around Black Friday, however, especially if you’re shopping for an iPad or Apple Watch. The best deals this year seem to involve the iPad Mini 2, iPad Air 2, 9.7-inch iPad Pro, Apple Watch Series 1, iPhone 7 and a handful …

Software might be the first thing that comes to many minds when you hear “Microsoft,” but the company has plenty of hardware deals this holiday season. Most of the savings started on November 24 and run through November 28 on Microsoft’s web store, but can also be found in its stores and retail partners like Office Depot and Best Buy. …

No, you can’t get an iPhone 7 for half price on Black Friday, but Apple is sweetening the deal a little with gift cards when you buy an iPhone, Mac, Watch or iPad. Buy a SIM-free 32GB iPhone 6S Plus for £599, $649 or AU$1,079 and you’ll receive a £40, $50 or AU$70 Apple Store gift card in return. Maybe …

HTC 10 owners have one more thing to be thankful for this weekend. HTC is rolling out an update that will let users of the unlocked version of the device to upgrade to Android 7.0 Nougat, Google‘s latest operating system. Nougat will be available from Friday, the company’s vice president of product management said in a tweet. The HTC 10 …

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. Cheeps! It’s Black Friday! Or, as I like to call it: Friday. Actually, there are some pretty sweet deals to be had today, …

All that fake news you saw during the election may have been part of a “sophisticated” Russian propaganda campaign. The abundance of fake news in the lead up to President-elect Donald Trump’s victory earlier this month has become a hot button issue, entangling tech giants like Facebook and Google. It turns out much of it was part of a Russian …

Online electronics retailer Newegg is offering Black Friday savings on a wide range of products, including televisions, computers, tablets, phones and much more. Newegg is particularly popular among the do-it-yourself computer crowd, and it is offering deals on solid-state hard drives, desktop graphics cards, memory, Intel processors and a variety of computer accessories. Some noteworthy offers include a 240GB solid-state …