It’s official: BlackBerry Messenger is no more. The beloved messaging platform was officially shut down on May 31, following an announcement earlier this year. BBM was one of the first messaging apps to use read receipts and typing indicators, but it long held up security as a key selling point. While you may be feeling nostalgic …
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It’s hard to not get down on the state of humanity when you learn about the YouTuber who reportedly filmed himself tricking a homeless man into eating Oreos filled with toothpaste and then joking that the cookies would make him clean. (They made him vomit.) But some might take comfort in the story’s end. Barcelona prankster Kanghua Ren, 21, known …
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This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. It’s long been suspected Apple’s iTunes — that clunky tool we’ve used for almost two decades to play, download and manage our media — is set to be replaced, or at least relegated to a legacy application for synching data between old iPods and …
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If you had troubles with YouTube or Gmail on Sunday, those issues should now be fixed. Google Cloud had been experiencing widespread problems Sunday, which wreaked havoc on YouTube, Snapchat, Gmail, Discord and a host of other popular apps and services across the eastern United States. YouTube wasn’t completely down for CNET’s John Falcone in Brooklyn Sunday, but some videos were inaccessible, at …
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It’s an all-English final match for the championship of the UEFA Champions League. The annual football tournament started with 79 top-division clubs from all over Europe, and now it’s down to two. Liverpool and Tottenham meet in the final on June 1, a match expected to rival the Super Bowl as the most-watched television broadcast in the world. Both teams …
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Two tech standards groups that severed ties with Huawei apparently changed their minds pretty quickly. The Wi-Fi Alliance and SD Association last week apparently restricted and removed the embattled Chinese phone maker respectively, but Huawei reappeared on both organizations’ list of members this week. The Wi-Fi Alliance promotes and certifies Wi-Fi technology, and the SD Association sets the industry standards …
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If you own a colorful Heyday iPhone charging cable from Target, you may need to stop using it and return it ASAP. The US Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) sent a recall notice this week for Heyday’s 3-foot Lighting cables due to potential shock and fire hazards. Heyday is Target’s house brand for electronics. According to the commission, the recall covers …
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The long-awaited successor to the popular Bose QuietComfort 35 II has finally been unveiled: The Bose Noise Cancelling Headphones 700 will cost $400 or £350 and arrive June 30. They’re available for preorder now. Australian pricing isn’t yet available but the UK price converts to about AU$640. The updated headphones were one of 3 new models that appeared when Bose quietly updated its …
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Mimicking Sony’s prototypical pro-entry-video full-frame camera strategy, Panasonic’s following up its Lumix S1R (pro) and S1 (entry) with a video-oriented addition to its S1 full-frame mirrorless line, the Lumix S1H, slated to ship sometime between September and November. Panasonic is targeting about $4,000 for the camera (roughly £3,165 and AU$5,760), which it’s showing under glass at Cine Gear Expo. Even …
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You can print your favorite memories on the spot by winning one of 10 Printomatic cameras we are giving away, courtesy of Kodak. We partnered with TV Guide and ET to celebrate graduation season with this 10-megapixel point-and-shoot camera that automatically prints your best photos. What do you have to do enter this giveaway? Just fill out the form below after …
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