Buckle up, gang. Social media will gross you out today. The top trending topic on Twitter on Friday stems from a WikiLeaks tweet about Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman and bodily fluids. Are you still reading this? Social Cues is our guide on what people are talking about on Facebook and Twitter. Here’s what is trending …
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On a cloudy day this May, in the dull fluorescent light of a plain white Google conference room, Rafa Camargo, Richard Wooldridge and Blaise Bertrand told CNET their plan to disrupt the phone market. Ara, a Lego-like phone with modular parts, would let buyers snap on a better camera, additional batteries or any other creative hardware a developer might dream …
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The SMS text-messaging experience hasn’t changed much in more than 20 years. But that will change for Sprint subscribers on Android devices starting today thanks to a new update to Google‘s Messenger app. Google said in a blog Friday that Sprint will be the first carrier to use its RCS-enabled Messenger app to update its text messaging service on Android …
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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 …
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Are you ready for some football in VR? Google and the NFL are. The two companies are teaming up to produce a nine part miniseries that will give fans an immersive view into what game day in the NFL is like. The episodes, shot using Google’s 360-degree camera and capture system, Jump, will focus on how players, coaches, executives, cheerleaders …
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If you were alive in the 1960s or ’70s, you tuned in to “Uncle Walter” on your TV for the most important news of the day. Known as “the most trusted man in America,” Walter Cronkite was a legendary broadcast journalist many turned to for decades to get the latest news on World War II, Watergate and the Vietnam War, …
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Google’s Android software powers almost 9 out of every 10 smartphones in the world. Now Google is hoping its app store can keep up. The search giant is making changes to Google Play, its online marketplace where you can download apps and games, Google said during a software developer event in San Francisco on Thursday. The company is also making …
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The Google Play store is about to get an upgrade Google’s parent company, Alphabet, is looking to address developers’ concerns about the app store, including the difficulty of sifting through the sheer number of apps, Reuters reported Thursday. According to market researcher Statista, Google Play offers more than 2.4 million apps. Improvements could include using artificial intelligence to boost the …
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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 …
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It wasn’t ever going to be clear-cut. In a video shoot-out between the iPhone 7 Plus and the Pixel, Apple’s phone came out on top. But that comes after the Pixel won the photo contest. We discuss how important the camera is to consumers (very, but not as important as your loyalty to an operating system). We also talk about …
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