Lensbaby’s initial foray into mobile lenses, the LM-10 Sweet Spot Lens for Mobile , was a fun first effort but slightly awkward to use. The company follows it up with the Creative Mobile Kit, a new $90 mount system with two trademark special-effects lenses and a kickstand. (I don’t have overseas pricing yet, but it …

Now for an unlikely trip down memory lane. Helio, the wireless brand that flamed out years ago, makes an unlikely comeback. Screenshot by Roger Cheng/CNET Helio, a mobile brand that exploded into the scene in 2006, only to fizzle out just a few years later, is back as a new wireless reseller with a new backer and a new offering: …

Twitter Psst, Twitter wants to know your birthday — but will you let them? The social networking service said Monday with the new feature, users are now able to share and celebrate their birth date along with other users — complete with colorful animated balloons on that special day. Users can opt whether to share their B-day with the public, …

The updated Start button layout in Windows 10: one of many improvements coming on July 29. Nick Statt/CNET Microsoft keeps wending its way past the mile markers en route to getting Windows 10 out to the public on time. The software titan is putting the finishing touches on the operating system software and will finalize its prerelease development by July …

Sarah Tew/CNET Apple Music has finally arrived on iPhones, iPads, Windows computers and Macs. And it debuts with a 3-month free trial, so you can try it without spending a penny. (Not seeing it on your device? Here’s how to get it.) But it’s important to note that you don’t need to be limited to your Apple Music listening on …

T-Mobile disclosed its first-ever transparency report on Thursday. T-Mobile USA T-Mobile received nearly 351,940 government requests for data in 2014, the most out of any of the four national wireless carriers. The nation’s fourth-largest carrier by subscriber base disclosed in its transparency report on Wednesday that it had fielded 177,549 criminal and civil subpeonas, 17,316 warrants and more than 3,000 …

Shark Week is officially in full swing, and what better way to celebrate than by watching a clip featuring everybody’s favorite shark, Sharky Shark Wahlberg? Related Links The Terminator goes on vacation in this animation, but he’ll be back In this ‘Jurassic Park,’ the humans try to escape Hulk smashes through his list of everyday errands A new animated short …

Shown with iPhone, but works with most smartphones. Neewer Smartphone lens kits have been around nearly as long as smartphones, affording far more variety and precision to your snapshots than your phone can by itself. Just one problem: Most of the kits require either a specialized case (bleh) or the addition of an unsightly magnetic ring around the lens (double-bleh). …

James Martin/CNET If you’re still waiting to pull the trigger on either an Apple Music or Spotify streaming subscription, will any difference in sound quality help you make a decision? Apple Music officially launched this week on iOS devices for $9.99 (£9.99/AU$11.99) a month, and it comes into a marketplace that is already crowded with streaming options. Spotify, the most …

Whenever a new iPhone comes out, there are lots of questions about its screen resolution, its battery life, the quality of its camera… You know, normal questions. A YouTube user known as EverythingApplePro recently had another kind of question about the shiny slabs of tech — just how many of them it would take to stop a bullet shot at …