Semiconductor company Broadcom is purchasing enterprise software company VMware for $61 billion, the company said in a press release on Thursday. The deal would be one of the largest in tech history. “This transaction combines our leading semiconductor and infrastructure software businesses with an iconic pioneer and innovator in enterprise software as we reimagine what …
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This story is part of Making the Metaverse, CNET’s exploration of the next stage in the internet’s evolution. To get a sense of the promise of the metaverse, take a look at 3D Charades. The video game has a simple premise. Players gather in a cafe-like room and divide into teams. One player sketches an image while team members guess …
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Apple’s iPhone marked its 15th year on the market with its strongest sales ever, helping push the tech giant’s sales and profits to all-time highs despite the continued spread of the coronavirus pandemic and supply chain constraints. The demand for Apple’s smartphone, in a line ranging from the $699 iPhone 13 Mini to the $1,099 iPhone 13 Pro Max, was so high during …
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Every year has its ups and downs. The ups are a thrill. The downs are often fascinating, for what they reveal about the limits of our ambitions, the challenges of trying to get things right and the escape hatches that might get us out of trouble (or the rabbit holes that take us ever deeper). Or just because misery loves …
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It’s hard to imagine that just over a decade ago, Android apps didn’t exist. Now they’re an integral part of many Android users’ daily life. The Google Play store launched in 2008 with 50 apps, and as of 2021, it’s grown to a playground of over 2.8 million apps that have changed how we communicate, travel, watch TV and play …
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It’s becoming a regular thing: Once again, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey testified before Congress. This time around, it was about how their social media companies handled the 2020 US election, though the questioning also touched on tech addiction, encryption and antitrust. That was midday Tuesday; later in the day, President Trump fired the head of …
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Activision’s Call of Duty is one of the biggest game franchises ever. Last year’s edition, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, made more than $1 billion for the gaming giant within two months of launch. Producing a massive game like Call of Duty is never easy, especially when preparing for new, next-generation game console hardware. Throw in a global pandemic and things …
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Activision dropped the details today on the hotly anticipated next game in the Call of Duty franchise, CoD: Black Ops Cold War, and it’s already popped for preorder on Blizzard.net and in the PlayStation and Microsoft stores in preparation for its official launch on Nov. 13. The bad — but unsurprising — news is that if you want to buy …
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Crash Bandicoot is enjoying a second wind. The N. Sane Trilogy, featuring the first three Crash Bandicoot games with much improved graphics, launched on the PS4 in 2017, then a year later on the Xbox One and Switch. Even Crash Team Racing, the undisputed greatest racing game ever, got the remastered treatment with 2019’s Nitro Fueled. Now Crash, like Mario …
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This story is part of CNET’s coverage of Apple Arcade, including exclusive first looks we got at some of the service’s high-profile new games. It started, as many great ideas do, with a song. For Sam Rosenthal, designer of Where Cards Fall, a thought-provoking puzzle game from the first wave of Apple Arcade launch titles, the song was Radiohead’s House of …
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