Enlarge ImageTake a trip without ever leaving the house. Want to take a virtual tour of Stonehenge? How about downtown Chicago? Or your very own town? It’s now possible thanks to Google’s Street View app [Android|iOS] and Google Cardboard. Cardboard, of course, is the dirt-cheap virtual-reality headset that works with your smartphone. And Street View …

The Blu Studio Energy 2 and Energy X boast days of battery life. Blu Products Two new Android devices from Miami-based phone-maker Blu Products offer something that you don’t find in other models: batteries that last up to three days on a single charge. Announced Thursday and available immediately through Blu’s website, the Studio Energy 2 and Energy X pack …

Enlarge Image NBN NBN has shed light on its broadband rollout schedule for the next three years, giving Australians a better idea of when construction will begin for 7.5 million homes and businesses across the country, and the technology that will be used in each area. The company responsible for building Australia’s national broadband network released its three-year plan today, …

Should you use the new Wi-Fi Assist feature in iOS 9? Apple says yes and explains why. Screenshot by Lance Whitney/CNET Apple is aiming to assure you that its new Wi-Fi Assist feature in the iOS 9 software won’t gulp down all your mobile data. Introduced in Apple’s latest mobile operating system in mid-September, Wi-Fi Assist is the company’s attempt …

Enlarge Image Pirate 3D Kickstarter users who poured over $1.5 million into the Pirate3D Buccaneer 3D printer may never see their extruded-plastic dreams become reality. Over 3,500 backers pledged money to the project, but according to its creators, in a note on their Kickstarter page, the majority of them will never see their Buccaneer. The 3D printer generated significant excitement …

Get ready, LG G4 owners. Android Marshmallow is coming your way. LG Electronics LG will be the first mobile vendor in the world outside of Google to start updating its phones with the new Android Marshmallow operating system. Its flagship G4 is first in line. On Thursday, the Korean mobile-phone maker said LG G4 owners in Poland will be the …

Meow. Wait, that’s not what King Kong says. Universal The underrated Crackle.com is adding plenty of new titles in November. The biggest one may be the 2005 version of “King Kong” starting Jack Black and Naomi Watts. It’s got a Metacritic score of 81/100, so if you haven’t seen the Peter Jackson version of the giant ape, maybe you should. …

Scott Stein/CNET I sat in the corner of an audience that I wasn’t really in. I watched the back of a bald man’s head as he snapped photos on the stage with his camera. I was high up, looking down on everyone as a virtual screen appeared in this virtual audience, with a countdown to the Democratic debate that was …

T-Mobile has found itself in an unlikely position, one that bodes well for its prospects in next year’s government auction of wireless spectrum. CNET T-Mobile, Sprint and a cavalcade of regional carriers spent the past two years lobbying for the Federal Communications Commission to set aside a swath of spectrum specifically for smaller players. Spectrum is the radio airwaves that …

Jason Cipriani/CNET We’ve already shown you how to share the Live Photos captured with the iPhone 6S. Sharing is simple, so long as you are sending your Live Photo to someone using an Apple device. Things tend to get more complicated when you want to share across social networks or to a non-Apple user. Until now, the simplest way to …