Move over Periscope , there’s a new live-streaming app vying for our attention. Launching today, Mirrativ (a portmanteau of mirror and narrative) lets you broadcast whatever is happening on the screen of your smartphone or tablet. It combines untethered mobile broadcasting, screen sharing and social interactions into one single app. You can use Mirrativ in …

If you prefer accessing Gmail from a browser rather than OS X’s Mail app or another desktop app, then you miss out on the desktop notifications that alert you to the arrival of new email messages — or so I thought. With the Aura app, you can get the best of both worlds: desktop notifications and Gmail’s Web client. Aura …

Google’s message to Europe: Its industry-dominant search engine doesn’t hurt competition in the European Union, it actually helps. That was the Internet giant’s latest volley Thursday to antitrust charges first made by European regulators five years ago. “We believe that Google increases choice for European consumers and offers valuable opportunities for businesses of all sizes,” wrote Google General Counsel Kent …

Enlarge ImageYou can no longer complain about the squares running Instagram. Look! A rectangular photo. Instagram If you were to explain Instagram to someone, you’d probably say it has square photos. It’s one of the most obvious things about the service. Well, not anymore. The photo-sharing company, which Facebook bought in 2012, said Thursday that it will allow users to …

Enlarge ImageCEO Mark Zuckerberg says a billion people signed in to the social network in a single day. Kim Kulish/Corbis Facebook has reached a new milestone: 1 billion people using the social network in a single day. Facebook reached the high mark on Monday, CEO Mark Zuckerberg wrote in a Facebook post on Thursday. That means roughly “1 in 7 …

The Moto 360 gets even smarter and more interactive with new software update. Sarah Tew/CNET Owners of Motorola’s Moto 360 can start receiving the latest version of the Android Wear software for their smartwatches starting Thursday. Available immediately, the new release features interactive watch faces as well as some custom Motorola touches. (You can see the full release notes here.) …

CNET went hands-on with the Turing phone. Josh Miller/CNET Turing Robotic Industries isn’t the first company to attempt to build a super secure smartphone that will keep even the most agile hackers out, but it’s determined to try. On Thursday, the California-based company announced that three variations of its Turing Phone will ship on December 18, with pre-orders beginning September …

More iPhones are on the way. CNET Apple just sent out invitations for its next big media event, and fresh rumors of what will and won’t be announced are already flying. Though the next generation of big-screen iPhones should be the main attraction at the September 9 event, a rumored smaller-screened smartphone won’t be ready for prime time quite yet, …

Sprint is getting aggressive with DirecTV customers. CNET Sprint has found a novel way to lure away customers from a rival: give its service away for free. The nation’s fourth-largest wireless carrier said on Thursday that as a way to “celebrate” rival AT&T’s acquisition of DirecTV, it would offer any of its satellite TV customers a free year of wireless …

Sennheiser’s mysterious marble headphone amp. Rich Trenholm/CNET LONDON — Sennheiser has unveiled a new…something. To celebrate its 70th anniversary, the German headphone and audio company has given us a look at a new high-end audio product without telling us much more — except that it’s made of marble. What it looks like is a headphone amplifier, and a very posh …