July, 2015

• 8 July

  The best and worst photo

  

  You know what I miss? Photo albums. I miss flipping through their pages to rediscover memories, and slotting in new pictures. For all the convenience of instant uploads and sharing, my interaction with cloud-stored pictures tends to dissolve right after the first time I upload and share. (A November 2014 survey by self-publishing site Shutterfly …

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• 8 July

  IBM and allies find a way to make chips even tinier and faster

  

  Enlarge ImageIBM Research and business partners have built a working chip with features measuring 7 nanometers, or billionths of a meter. That’s half the size of today’s cutting-edge 14nm chips. IBM Research Chip designs two generations more advanced than today’s cutting-edge designs are now closer to reality as IBM announced Wednesday it’s built a test processor that makes computer circuitry …

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• 8 July

  New details leaked out on future Samsung Galaxy phones

  

  What’s next for the Samsung smartphone line? We may find out in September. Josh P. Miller/CNET Samsung is reportedly readying a new set of smartphones that could come with big displays and some new components. The rumored Galaxy Note 5 and Galaxy S6 Edge Plus are real and they’re coming to the IFA 2015 conference in Berlin in September, Sammobile …

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• 8 July

  YouTube star PewDiePie: I do make a lot of money. So what?

  

  Felix Kjellberg, aka PewDiePie, wants you to chill about how much money he makes. YouTube screenshot by CNET YouTube star Felix Kjellberg wants you to know that he doesn’t care about the buckets of money he’s made. Kjellberg, who goes by the handle “PewDiePie,” is famous for posting videos of himself shrieking obscenities while he plays video games. He has …

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• 8 July

  Microsoft takes another hit on phones, but don’t count it out yet

  

  Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella at the Build 2014 developer conference. James Martin/CNET Microsoft is hoping to get a bigger bang from a smaller smartphone business. The world’s largest software company on Wednesday said it would cut 7,800 jobs, largely in the phone business, and record a charge of $7.6 billion to write-off assets related to its acquisition of Nokia’s devices …

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• 8 July

  ​Canon’s pricey 50

  

  Canon’s new EOS 5DS R has a 50-megapixel sensor, but it doesn’t outscore the Nikon D810’s 36-megapixel sensor. Sarah Tew / CNET Canon’s newest cameras might be the current leader in the SLR megapixel race, but test results released today show the company still significantly lags rival Nikon when it comes to a core part of image quality. DxO Labs, …

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• 8 July

  Wild Wednesday: Chromebooks, Chromecasts and more!

  

  CNET’s Cheapskate scours the Web for great deals on PCs, phones, gadgets and much more. Ever heard the expression, “an embarrassment of riches”? Today I give you an embarrassment of great deals. Seriously. And because I’m in that kind of mood, each headline below is borrowed from a song title or lyric. Hit the comments and let’s see who can …

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• 8 July

  Incoming! A new Motorola phone lands at the FCC, we hope it’s the ‘Kinzie’

  

  The Nexus 6 is currently Motorola’s most powerful smartphone. Juan Garzón/CNET Motorola is prepping a new smartphone; documents submitted to the FCC tell us so. First reported by Droid Life, there are few actual specifications to be gleaned by the regulatory listing. But we do know that it should have a screen that measures roughly 5.5 inches, because overall dimensions …

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• 8 July

  iOS 8.4 hits the 40 percent mark after the first week, researcher says

  

  iOS 8.4 adopting is surging, most likely due to Apple Music. CNET Apple’s iOS 8.4 is already on 41 percent of all iOS devices just one week after its debut. Tracking the use of Apple’s mobile OS based on customer data, researcher Mixpanel found a huge jump in iOS 8.4 adoption since its debut on Tuesday, June 30. Starting at …

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• 8 July

  ‘Goosebumps’ trailer puts Jack Black to work scaring children

  

  The monsters from R.L. Stine’s “Goosebumps” books are loose, and it’s up to his niece and their new teenage next-door neighbor to save the town of Greendale (no, not that Greendale). Related stories Real-life horror fills ‘The Stanford Prison Experiment’ trailer Freak out at sea on a zombie-themed cruise Fake Netflix Lemony Snicket trailer isn’t for the squeamish That’s the …

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