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My family’s What’sApp chat channel is about to get a little bit more festive. Earlier this week, the popular global chat app quietly added the ability to send and receive animated GIFs to its app for iPhone. The easiest way to get started on the fun is to pick from one of the integrated options …

Shoppers looking for a prepaid phone will have two more options to choose from on Verizon’s network. Starting November 13, new 5 GB and 10 GB data plans join the carrier’s 3GB and 6GB plans. 5GB plan: $50 a month gets you unlimited talk and text in the U.S., carryover data when you pay on time, mobile hotspot capabilities and …

Those MacBook Pro dongles are now a lot cheaper. Apple on Friday cut the pricing for connectors for its MacBook Pro. The offer will run through the end of the year. Apple also lowered the price of the new LG displays announced last week by 25 percent. The LG UltraFine 5K display, will cost $974 when it becomes available in …

Now that the iPhone 7 and 7 Plus are waterproof, there wouldn’t seem to be as strong a need to put them in a waterproof case. But as Lifeproof, now under the OtterBox umbrella, gets set to ship its next-generation of waterproof cases for the iPhone 7 and 7 Plus, it’s emphasizing its Fre cases’ “360-degree protection,” which includes a …

Now playing: Watch this: Start chatting with Google Assistant 3:33 Google Assistant (which replaced Google Now) is like Siri, but a lot more helpful, carrying full-fledged conversations and taking notes about your likes and dislikes. It taps into Google’s huge database of apps (like calendars, email and so on) as well as restaurant reviews, weather, travel, maps and a whole …

This is part of CNET’s “Tech Enabled” series about the role technology plays in helping the disability community. David Grissam was worried he’d have to quit his job. Grissam had steadily been losing his hearing, which was a serious problem for the 911 dispatcher based in Norman, Oklahoma. It had gotten to the point where normal hearing aids didn’t work …

Now playing: Watch this: Listen to iBooks read by your iPhone 2:10 You don’t need to pay for an Audible subscription to have your iPhone read books to you. By enabling an accessibility setting, you can make your iPhone read the text of whatever it is you have open, from a book in iBooks to an article you have open …

Some have dissed the iPhone 7 for being too similar to the 6S. But a new patent shows that Apple may have an interesting direction for a future iPhone. The US Patent and Trademark Office granted a patent to Apple on Tuesday for a bendable or foldable iPhone, according to Patently Apple, which was first to report the news. It …

Now playing: Watch this: iPhone 7 Plus vs Pixel XL: Which one shoots better video? 3:04 The Google Pixel XL excels at mobile phone photography, edging out Apple’s iPhone 7 Plus in CNET’s estimation. With video, though, it’s a different story. My colleague Vanessa Hand Orellana and I spent hours chasing pigeons, children, dogs and sunsets to put the two …

The Apple Watch does a lot of things, but it didn’t have a camera. Now it does, thanks to a new band. Are you ready to start taking wrist-snaps? Glide, makers of a video chat app for iPhone, just launched CMRA, a new Apple Watch band that has dual cameras built in. Much like Samsung’s long-departed Gear watches with cameras …