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In a few years, you’ll wear a smartwatch measuring your heart rate, a belt buckle tracking your eating habits and glasses displaying the news while recording what you do in your self-driving car. But what’s Silicon Valley got in mind for your kids? A four-day exhibition called the Baby Tech Summit, held during the Consumer …

Facebook might not be as cool as Snapchat, but it still has the most popular app in the US, according to a Nielsen report for 2016 published Wednesday. In a year where Pokemon Go smashed App Store records, social media still remains the dominant force on people’s phones. Facebook remains comfortable as America’s most popular app with more than 146 …

Disney has agreed to make TV shows for Snapchat, but don’t expect your favorite cartoon princesses to tag along for the ride. Technically, it’s the Disney-ABC Television Group that signed a deal to make several shows for the teen-favorite social network. ABC’s long-running dating reality show “The Bachelor” will be first out of the gate. According to a press release …

Yep, you still will be able to make and watch six-second Vine videos. Over and over and over. Vine, Twitter’s video app, was left for dead two months ago. But on Friday, the social network said in a blog post that the app will be renamed “Vine Camera.” Users will be able to post the looping videos they make to …

Now playing: Watch this: Cheap prescription lenses for Snapchat Spectacles 1:19 The only thing worse than waiting in line for hours to buy a pair of plastic sunglasses that are only notable because they can take Snapchat footage is not being able to see through their lenses because you wear prescription glasses. Not for long, though. Starting today at GlassesUSA.com, …

Mass-sending that dog-face-filter selfie has never been easier. Snapchat released a new feature Tuesday, allowing people to create groups of up to 16 friends. Before the update, you had to individually check off each of your Snapchat friends to send Snaps. That can get annoying and hard to keep up with, especially amid stacks of notifications and replies. You can …

If you thought Apple’s last couple of years were big, just wait for 2017. The launch of the large-screen iPhone 6 and 6 Plus in late 2014 sent Apple’s fortunes soaring. Apple became the most profitable company in the world, and the following year, with the 6S and 6S Plus, was even bigger. But enthusiasm waned in 2016 — iPhone …

When MTV launched on August 1, 1981, the world watched a now classic video: A rocket sits ready to blast off from its launchpad as a voice from NASA Mission Control counts down to T-minus one. The voice-over fades, the rocket fires and we cut to an astronaut planting a flag with the network’s logo on the moon’s surface. “Ladies …

Now playing: Watch this: Spectacles are worth snapping up 3:06 Enlarge Image Just one of the error messages you may get when trying to pair Spectacles. Screenshot by Lexy Savvides/CNET Sometimes your Snapchat Spectacles won’t play nice. Maybe you’ve connected Spectacles to a few different devices and now they won’t pair with your phone. The official support page only walks …

Despite years of work from tech and payments companies, shopping on your phone is still a lousy experience. For this podcast, we discuss some of the problems with mobile shopping and the efforts to fix these issues. Also, Alfred Ng talks about his first week with Snapchat Spectacles, after waiting in line for six hours to buy them. The 3:59 …