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Google is courting families with a new group offer for its Project Fi wireless service. Starting Tuesday, customers who sign up for the hybrid cellular/Wi-Fi wireless service will be able to add more lines to their account, the company said in a blog post. The new group plan can include up to six people on one plan for an extra …

Now playing: Watch this: Death of Samsung’s Note 7 leaves unanswered questions 2:15 The overheating problem is related to the Galaxy Note 7 battery, which can be seen in iFixit’s teardown of the phone. iFixit The Galaxy Note 7 is no more. Samsung confirmed Tuesday that it will permanently cease production of the problematic devices after a botched attempt to …

Now playing: Watch this: Toxic Galaxy Note 7 can’t be trusted, production suspended 1:51 Enlarge Image Samsung’s Note 7 may face a second recall. Juan Garzon/CNET The Galaxy Note 7‘s days may be numbered. Samsung said Monday it is “temporarily adjusting the Galaxy Note 7 production schedule in order to take further steps to ensure quality and safety matters.” There’s …

Google search is a powerful tool. You can use it to help you convert units, calculate a tip and go back in time, and now the search giant has debuted a new RGB to hex converter to identify colors with exact precision. RGB and hex are both value formats assigned to describe specific colors in the spectrum; generally speaking, websites …

Future conversations with your intelligent gadgets may be co-authored by your favorite comedy writers. It’s not too great a leap: according to a Wall Street Journal report, comedy and joke writers from Pixar movies and the Onion are already working on making Google’s upcoming Assistant AI voice service feel more loose and vibrant. The development of compelling voice AI will …

A version of Chrome due in a two months will give your PC or phone back some of that precious memory it’s been gobbling up. Memory is a scarce resource in computing devices, making apps run faster and letting them do more. As websites get more complex and web browsers get more powerful, though, they gobble up more and more …

Google will put photo-sharing site Panoramio out of its misery in a month, a decision that triggered fresh anguish and anger among people who have stuck with it through thick and thin. This week, Panoramio fans saw the words “Panoramio is closing,” with a November 4 deadline. As word spread from a post by a Panoramio forum moderator, outrage and …

MacOS Sierra introduced two iCloud Drive features that are certainly convenient but are also certain to put you over the free 5GB iCloud storage limit. MacOS Sierra’s ability to sync your Desktop and Document folders to iCloud Drive and to optimize your Mac’s storage to free up some space will likely exceed 5GB sooner rather than later. An upgrade to …

You saw pictures this week of the new Google Pixel and Pixel XL. You want to buy one, but you read somewhere it’s only available on Verizon. Is that true? To quote Walter Sobchak from “The Big Lebowski,” “You’re like a child who wanders into the middle of a movie.” You’re not sure what’s going on. Let’s start by clearing …

Yahoo‘s bad fortune in recent weeks could come with yet another cost. Verizon, which has agreed to buy Yahoo for $4.8 billion, is now asking for a $1 billion discount, according to a report Thursday by the New York Post. Yahoo has been hit with a mountain of bad press recently. Earlier this week, it was reported that the US …