This story is part of CES 2016. Our editors bring you complete CES 2016 coverage and scour the showroom floor for the hottest new tech gadgets around. One of Samsung’s newest holiday ads, titled “Give the gift of Galaxy,” features gift-wrapped packages of various shapes and sizes. People tear off the paper to reveal gadgets …

Streaming games has always required a PC, but not anymore. Mobile videogame streamer Kamcord announced today that it will allow users to stream games directly from Android smartphones. The service, which already has about two million users, has gained a reputation as being the ‘Twitch-of-mobile’ –in reference to the popular videogame streamer owned by Amazon — thanks to its legions …

Facebook rolled out a personalized Year in Review page for its users that attempts to remember only the good times. Launched on Wednesday, the page displays many of the photos you’ve posted on Facebook throughout 2015, offering you a visual tour of your entire year, at least as you shared it on the site. Rather than show you all of …

Users on Android’s latest flavor, Marshmallow (version 6.0), are also likely familiar with Google Now on Tap. To summarize, this feature will attempt to provide contextual information from any screen on your device. So if a friend mentions a restaurant in a Hangouts message, you can use Google Now on Tap to quickly bring up directions or ratings. The latest …

I have trouble sleeping. To remedy that, I’m willing to try almost anything, including wearing a glowing hat to bed. The Sleep Shepherd hat holds two speakers sewn into each earflap and a sensor that rests against your forehead. The idea is that the sensor monitors your brain waves and the speakers play tones that are meant to slow those …

The mission to get wireless charging into your smartphone continues to invoke plenty of legal drama. Powermat, one of the key companies championing the technology, said that an Israeli judge dismissed a motion filed by three of its board members to block the company from operating. The judge has given the two sides three weeks to try to settle their …

Apple rocked the phone universe when it started a program to sell you a new iPhone every year directly from its own store. What you may not realize is that Apple isn’t the first or only phonemaker to skip Verizon, T-Mobile, Sprint and AT&T and reach out to buyers one-on-one. Motorola’s been doing this for years through its own website …

Apple Pay and Samsung Pay, the competing mobile-payments services, will go head to head next year in the world’s biggest smartphone market. Apple and Samsung said Thursday they had secured separate deals with the China UnionPay bank that will enable their customers in China to add credit or debit cards to the respective mobile-payments services. Both companies said their services …

I’m looking at a hovering watch. It splits into pieces above the table in front of me, exposing gears ticking underneath. My eyes move over glowing yellow dots, which expand into details: ad copy, indicating the Swiss watch’s inner workings and fine details. I click my way through the glowing holographic display using my finger, and then I look at …

Apple’s got a new chief of operations, its first since CEO Tim Cook held the role. The Cupertino, California, company on Thursday named Jeff Williams as chief operating officer. Former CEO Steve Jobs had appointed Cook to that role before naming Cook as his replacement when Jobs became ill. Apple has said it has a succession plan in place for …