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A year after Apple made huge — but pricey — changes to its smartphone lineup with the iPhone X, it may finally have a redesigned, cheaper phone for the rest of us. The company plans to host an event at 10 a.m. PT on Wednesday at the Steve Jobs Theater on its campus in Cupertino, …

You know that feeling when something is important to you but other people just don’t care? That’s how some congressional lawmakers felt this week after Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey and, notably, no one from Google testified for a combined eight hours before two committees. The hearings were kind of important, given that they focused on hot-button …

I wake up. I reach for the iPhone X. I pick it up in the dark, face half-smushed in the pillow. I feel the haptic rattle. The iPhone X won’t recognize my face. It’s frustrating, because there’s no denying that Face ID is an amazing technology: Bleary-eyed wakeups notwithstanding, it works most of the time, and it’s the best facial …

This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. Don’t think of Apple’s AirPower as an iPhone afterthought. The wireless charging pad, which the company announced almost a full year ago, could be an important piece of Apple’s iPhone strategy for 2018. If Apple finally announces AirPower’s sale price and sale date …

Soon you’ll be able to send and receive texts from your Windows 10 device without taking your phone out of your pocket. Microsoft is rolling out a Your Phone feature for Windows 10 that lets you send and receive texts from your Android phone, on your computer. Your Phone was first unveiled at Microsoft Build in May, and the company …

Apple on Sept. 12. Google on Oct. 9. And now, Microsoft will hold its own special event between those two dates — we just received an invite to a Microsoft event on Oct. 2 in New York City. The only hint Microsoft’s giving us is the phrase “A moment of your time,” but CNET understands that there will be Microsoft …

The United States’ proposed $200 billion tariff on Chinese-made products might not affect your next TVs or phone purchase directly, but Apple now says that a whole lot of other Apple products would get hit by the 25 percent increase in import tax — including the Apple Watch, AirPods headphones and HomePod smart speaker. Here’s the whole list of products …

Apple’s annual fall launch event on Sept. 12 is widely expected to bring new iPhones, the Apple Watch 4 and maybe even new Face ID iPad Pros. But that event also effectively marks the second anniversary of the Apple AirPods. Despite all the snarky remarks about their design when they were first unveiled in 2016, the AirPods have taken the headphone market by storm and become …

So — Google just invited us to an event on October 9 in New York City, with a big flashy invitation like the kind tech companies send when they’re about to introduce something big, like — for instance — a set of flashy new phones. We totally wouldn’t go out on a limb and say that we’re going to see …

On this podcast, we talk about: The rumored name of a new iPhone is the iPhone XS Max (yikes). Amazon’s website suffers an outage — after a different outage on Prime Day this year. US Sen. Bernie Sanders introduces the “Stop BEZOS Act,” continuing his criticism of Amazon and what it pays warehouse workers. Amazon briefly becomes a $1 trillion company. New …