AT&T rings up the Asus ZenFone 2E for its latest off-contract Android. Asus Those of you looking for a simple, stripped-down phone could find it with AT&T’s GoPhone prepaid service, which picks up the entry-level Asus ZenFone 2E for $120. (Not to be confused with the much more powerful and expensive ZenFone 2 , of …

The Kyocera Hydro Wave is rated against water, dust and more. Kyocera Kyocera keeps on coming with smartphones designed to withstand general abuse as well as life’s hazards. The entry-level Kyocera Hydro Wave, announced Wednesday, will call both T-Mobile and MetroPCS home. Related Links How to buy a new phone: The CNET smartphone buying guide T-Mobile to pay $17.5 million …

Google may already know every place you’ve been — but now you can see it, too. A new feature called Timeline is rolling out on Google Maps to make it easier to see a history of your location and where you traveled throughout a day. CNET Update explains how it works, along with other changes happening on Google services: Now …

Google+ Photos is retiring though the service will still be accessible. Google Google+ Photos is technically retiring, but that doesn’t mean your photos or the service itself are actually going away. Google is far from the only company that offers online photo storage. In this area, it competes against such rivals as Flickr, Amazon Prime Photos, Snapfish and Photobucket. So …

Apple included a handy new feature in the Photos app on iOS 9 (preview of new features here) sure to please those who frequently share multiple pictures and videos. Once you’ve installed iOS 9, be it the public preview or the official release this fall, you’ll be able to launch the Photos app and select content with a swipe of …

Aerosense will use drones — like this prototype — to capture images and data for business cutomers. Sony/ZMP Sony is ready to take off with a new drone company that will offer services to business customers. Sony’s mobile-devices division, Sony Mobile, plans to launch a drone company called Aerosense with Japan-based robotics company ZMP, the companies announced Wednesday. Aerosense will …

“I have a responsibility to do what I can to bring more than just entertainment to the table,” LeVar Burton says. The Web is “the most powerful tool invented in the history of civilization, so why not use it for the highest good for as many souls as possible?” James Martin/CNET News LeVar Burton cried when his Kickstarter campaign for …

Sarah Jacobsson Purewal/CNET There are myriad ways to open programs in Windows 10 — use the Start menu/screen, pin shortcuts to the taskbar, or use Cortana. But if hands-free isn’t your thing, you can also use keyboard shortcuts. Here’s how to create keyboard shortcuts for programs and apps in Windows 10 (this also works in older versions of Windows). Sarah …

Amazon and Netflix want you to watch their streaming-video services using next-gen video technology that enables superhigh resolution. But a new patent-licensing organization has announced a new fee that could put a damper on such efforts. To enable the next-gen high-resolution video, the computing industry had largely settled on the High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) standard to compress video down …

T-Mobile CTO Neville Ray calls the company’s new text message feature a “wake-up call for the old carriers.” CNET/James Martin T-Mobile on Wednesday introduced “Advanced Messaging,” which adds a set of bells and whistles to the traditional text message. Advanced Messaging, which T-Mobile said runs on a standard that any carrier can use, allows you to fire off group messages …