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The iPhone X is almost all screen. It’s beautiful, but it comes with a big change: There’s no home button anymore. And that changes a lot of things about everyday use. Many of the familiar screen gestures have changed. Down is up and up is down. When it comes to how the iPhone X operates, …

I was fortunate enough to receive a review sample of the iPhone X on Monday, and I’ve been putting it through its paces ever since. Just minutes after posting my initial impressions, I asked what you wanted to know: So now: I’d love questions from you. Anything you’re curious about on the #iphonex, ask away. I’ll be working to answer …

When asked in a new survey whether people would rather go to the mall with friends or just shop at home with a voice assistant like Amazon‘s Alexa, a third of people actually opted for the robot. Maybe that’s a sign of a drab future when we all become shut-ins and stores cease to exist, but that situation doesn’t seem …

I used to wear an iPod Nano on my wrist. It stored songs, it had an FM radio and it told me the time. Years later, the Apple Watch is finally living up to the promise of being an iPod on my wrist again — a little voice-activated streaming music player, in fact. The upgraded features come courtesy of the …

Your appliances are about to get a lot smarter.  Samsung on Wednesday said the second generation of its Bixby digital assistant will be coming to its various non-mobile devices including its smart TVs in the US and Korea in 2018, as well as its Family Hub refrigerator. The company also announced a new SDK for developers to make apps that …

When you need to jot down an idea, check something off your to-do list or scan a business-trip receipt, free tools are plentiful — think Microsoft OneNote, Google Keep, Apple Notes, Dropbox Paper and more. But Chris O’Neill, chief executive of Evernote, the company that pioneered the technology, thinks it’s worth paying for — so much so that Evernote raised …

Our iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus reviews are in, and — spoiler alert — they’re exactly the high-quality updates to last year’s iPhones we expected. They’re also sensible and safe compared to the bold, brassy, experimental iPhone X that we’ve all been waiting for (that’s pronounced “ten,” by the way, not “ex”). Unless you’re set on the iPhone 8 …

So you want a big-screen phone and the Pixel 2 XL, iPhone X and Galaxy Note 8 are catching your eye. Which one do you buy? Decisions, decisions. The best policy is to wait until our reviews are in. Some of you are going to preorder regardless, so for you, we’re going to break down the pros and cons of …

Sonos has a new voice-controlled speaker, too, and it plays nice with Amazon, Google and Apple. Billed as a music-first speaker, the Sonos One ($199, £199) looks a lot like the company’s Play:1 (also $199), but has an array of six built-in microphones to allow it to respond to voice commands. Sonos representatives told CNET that though the two speakers resemble each …

The national anthem of Bulgaria is actually “Mila Rodino,” but you wouldn’t know that if you asked Siri.  That certainly doesn’t seem right.   GIF by Jason Parker/CNET Reddit user wandreylust caught this amazing error on Facebook and had to give it a try. As of this writing, if you ask Apple’s voice assistant, “What is the national anthem of …