The US music industry no longer needs life support. US sales from streaming music were up 8.1 percent to $3.4 billion in the first six months of 2016 compared with the same period last year, a music industry trade group said Tuesday. In the first half of 2015, revenue was down 0.5 percent. This shift …

Now playing: Watch this: What headphones, audio devices work without the headphone… 8:58 If the next phone you buy doesn’t include a headphone jack, there are still plenty of options for listening to your favorite songs and playlists. CNET audio experts David Carnoy and Justin Yu round up their favorite headphones and audio devices that do not need the 3.5mm …

Can drones also be artists? That’s a question that arises when you see the Pollockocopter in action. The flying machine comes from German aerial photography and drone company Cooper Copter. It looks pretty much like a regular quadcopter, but it carries a payload of a balloon filled with paint. You can see where this is going. Related stories Seagull drone …

Hey, all you space aliens out there? Tuesday might be a good day to land an army of flying saucers, because no one will pay any attention. Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt are divorcing, and the media is in a feeding frenzy. Everyone from TMZ, which broke the news, to the staid New York Times ran a story. Not to …

All that new tech crammed into the new iPhone 7 isn’t coming cheap for Apple. Apple’s materials and manufacturing costs for the phone total $224.80, according to a teardown estimate by researcher IHS Markit on Tuesday. That’s up about 18 percent from the iPhone 6S, released last year. Apple kept the base price for its newest phone the same, at …

If privacy when surfing the World Wide Web is something you value, then using a virtual private network (VPN) to obscure your surfing patterns is a must. While most VPNs either require a subscription fee or installing additional software on your PC, Opera’s latest update to its stable desktop browser version adds VPN functionality for free and turning it on …

“Where’s that damn document I’m looking for?” If you’re a Google Drive user, you can now find that doc by typing in a search query much like the one above (though you’ll probably want to be just a bit more specific). Google’s cloud storage and file backup service has been updated to allow for Natural Language Processing, or NLP, the …

Now playing: Watch this: Try these MacOS Sierra features 1:54 MacOS Sierra has landed. While we say goodbye to the “X” in “OS X” with MacOS Sierra, the new Mac operating system introduces a number of improvements and new features. Siri integration tops the list, but Sierra also offers easy filing sharing via iCloud Drive, a universal clipboard, auto unlock …

Social media managers at Skittles must be accustomed to their Google Alerts going off. Used to be Seattle Seahawk Marshawn Lynch inspired the Skittles memes du jour. But now Lynch is retired (or is he?), and Skittles are back in the news for a new reason. On Monday, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s son Donald Jr. stirred up a bowl …

T-Mobile has mocked the other carriers for making ridiculous promises and hyping up 5G, or the next generation of wireless technology. So what does it do on Tuesday? Hype up 5G. T-Mobile Chief Technology Officer Neville Ray laid out his vision for the carrier’s move into 5G, which it’s making in a big way. Working with Nokia, Ericsson and Samsung, …