A military hero, a spurned suitor, a tale of revenge and betrayal. No, it’s not the latest Fabio-covered paperback. It’s a lawsuit filed against Snapchat in Los Angeles earlier this week. The lawsuit alleges that Snapchat fired a former employee, Anthony Pompliano, after just three weeks of work…

LAS VEGAS—Monitors and TVs keep getting bigger, but not fast enough for Razer. Not content with limiting games to LCD screens, the company today showed off its Project Ariana technical concept at CES, which pushes games past the TV, using a projection system to flood your entire wall with whatever…

I don't really need words to express my opinion about the audiophile update to Dell's XPS 27 all-in-one for 2017. A picture will suffice. Steve Steigman/Maxell But I must use my words. The XPS 27 is mostly about your ears, boasting the most sophisticated audio system built into a PC, at least that I…

CES Round-up: Day 2 Samsung and Google collaborated for the first ever Chromebook designed from the ground up with full support for Android apps. It is set to compete with the Apple iPad Pro and Microsoft's Surface Pro 4. LG's new 0.2in thin, 77 inches wide signature W7 TV is so thin, it appears to…

Smartphone designs are stale — there, I said it. Xiaomi’s ridiculously large and absolutely gorgeous Mi Mix was one of the few phones of 2016 to generate any kind of excitement on the design front, and it did it by making the screen as big as possible and the bezel as tiny as possible. It’s…

With its Alexa virtual assistant Companies like Apple , Google , Samsung, and Microsoft have all vied for control over the phones we carry in our pockets, the computers at our desks, and even the watches on our wrists. But over the past year a new arms race has emerged in Silicon Valley: competing…

The recent upward trend in mortgage credit availability didn’t let up in December, according to the latest report from the Mortgage Bankers Association . The newest Mortgage Credit Availability Index shows a 0.6% increase to 175.2 in December, marking the fourth consecutive month of credit…

T-Mobile CEO John Legere in "Vegas" mode, going off on his competitors. Photo by James Martin/CNET When T-Mobile has held an Un-carrier event to shake up the industry, consumers have typically applauded the outcome. Then came this past summer and Un-carrier 12 . In what could arguably have been its…

A woman using her phone on a ferry in Xiamen, Fujian Province. Apple removed mobile news apps created by The New York Times from its app store in China late last month. European Pressphoto Agency Apple , complying with what it said was a request from Chinese authorities, removed news apps created by…

The Latest at CES: Samsung's 'challenging' Note 7 debacle Spotify helps listeners cook turkey with Thanksgiving-themed playlists Helmet for treating depression being used in Austin AT&T spends $550 million to boost Austin network Why is it so hard to find smaller 4K television sets? Up Next: The…

Exxon Mobil Cashes Out Ex-CEO Tillerson Ahead of Confirmation Hearings Auto Makers on Track to Set Annual Record Apple Confirms $1 Billion Investment in SoftBank Vision Fund M.B.A. Classrooms Get a Digital Upgrade Trump Puts Auto Makers, Trade Policy in Spotlight Sharp’s Planned U.S. TV Revival…

For Elon Musk and Tesla Motors, the only way to do anything is “big.” And that’s what happened Wednesday when its gigantic new Gigafactory became operational east of Reno, Nevada. More than two years after Tesla broke ground on the facility, the $5 billion Gigafactory has begun producing lithium-ion…

Gaming laptops are one of the things that every PC maker has prioritized at this year’s CES, with big names like Lenovo, and now Samsung, starting whole new sub-brands of gaming PCs. Samsung’s answer to Lenovo’s Legion is the Notebook Odyssey. The Odyssey begins with a 15-inch laptop in February and…

Following months of leaks , Samsung is today making its latest Chromebook official. The new computer is actually two models — the Chromebook Plus and Chromebook Pro — and is the first one built from the ground up with support for Android apps. It’s also the first Chromebook to come with a stylus and…

For Chinese citizens, there’s now one less loophole in the country’s comprehensive censorship of Western media outlets. According to the The New York Times , on December 23, Apple removed the Chinese versions of the newspaper’s apps as well as their English counterparts in an act of compliance with…

News That's a lot of storage, but what does it cost? | Follow Senior Editor, PCWorld | Kingston's massive 2 TB DataTraveler Ultimate Generation Terabyte USB flash drive. Credit: Kingston Who needs a hard drive, or for that matter cloud storage? With Kingston’s new 2 TB flash drive—that’s two…

version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"? Before... Core Protin/Business Insider SEOUL (Reuters) - Samsung is likely to forecast its best quarterly profit in nearly three years on Friday, analysts said, with robust memory chip sales easing the pain of the costly failure of a flagship smartphone. The South…

Thought your next phone couldn’t get any thinner, lighter, faster, and more power-efficient than your current model? Think again. At chip maker Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Technology Summit in New York on Thursday, the firm unveiled its most impressive silicon yet — the Snapdragon 835. The processor’s…

Tesla Motors Inc. Photo: Bloomberg News Tesla Motors Inc. ’s fourth-quarter sales rose 27%—but not enough for the Silicon Valley automaker to reach its goal of delivering at least 80,000 vehicles in 2016. The Palo Alto, Calif., company sold 22,200 vehicles during the October-through-December period,…

Intel is revving up its presence in the self-driving car game by buying a 15 percent stake in Here, a mapping technology company. Intel is vying for a bigger spot in the self-driving car race. The Silicon Valley chipmaker said Tuesday it's buying a 15 percent stake in Here , a mapping company, to…

Last year ZDNet's Jason Perlow was impressed with the $199 Honor 5X and now we see Huawei bringing the Honor 6X to the US with some important upgrades while keeping the price low at just $249.99. Huawei announced the Honor 6X in China on 18 October 2016 and today made the US release announcement at…

ODG's R-9 augmented reality smartglasses can fit in your pocket Credit: ODG The new R-8 and R-9 mixed reality smartglasses from Osterhout Design Group are sleek, small, and fit in your pocket. The products show that AR headgear doesn't need to be as big and clunky as Microsoft's HoloLens. The new…

Attendees at the CES event in Las Vegas last year. This year, more than 170,000 people are expected to attend the technology conference. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull) Published Credit: Gregory Bull/Associated Press Photo: Gregory Bull/Associated Press When the Consumer Electronics Show began 50 years ago,…

The Lenovo Smart Assistant. Lenovo The runaway success of the Amazon Echo is proof that people are willing to accept devices built around digital assistants into their lives, and the tech world is scrambling to get a piece of the smart speaker pie. Google last year rolled out the Google Home, while…

Earin was one of the first companies to launch true wireless earbuds — which do away with the wires typically associated with “wireless” earbuds — and when we took a look at the company’s first offering, we walked away impressed . Now, bigger companies are moving in on the market — see Apple’s…

After a year of criticism and allegations around fake news, censorship, and bias, Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg is using his yearly challenge to educate himself on the needs and problems of his users around the United States. That could help Facebook become a better platform for the voices and…

Kaby Lake. Kaby Lake. Kaby Lake. If you read tech news, you may seeing that phrase an awful lot this week : it's what Intel calls its latest seventh-generation processors for laptop and desktop PCs. But before you get all excited about a PC with the new processors, there's something you should know:…

After all the evidence that surfaced during trials in recent years, there’s pretty much no way to rationally argue against the fact that Samsung got its start in the smartphone business by copying Apple. The company even created a 132-page guide to copying the iPhone pixel by pixel so that its…

A Chrysler Pacifica minivan cruises down the street packed with self-driving car technology produced by Waymo, the new name for Google's self-driving car program. (Photo: Fiat Chrysler) SAN FRANCISCO — Fiat Chrysler and Google already have a partnership to further the development of self-driving…

Today Valve announced the 100 games that have brought in the most revenue on Steam in 2016. The list is quite varied, ranging from top dogs like Grand Theft Auto V and the company’s own Counter-Strike: Global Offensive to more granular games like Stellaris . The is the first time that Valve has put…

Microsoft's ongoing move to reposition itself as a cloud-first/mobile-first vendor continued in 2016. But readers of "All About Microsoft" here on ZDNet remained most interested in Windows 10's rollout and futures this past year. Credit: ZDNet While it's Microsoft's commercial cloud story that many…

Foxconn, the Taiwanese manufacturing giant behind Apple’s iPhone and numerous other major electronics devices, aims to automate away a vast majority of its human employees, according to a report from DigiTimes . Dai Jia-peng, the general manager of Foxconn’s automation committee, says the company…

Yesterday, Twitter co-founder and CEO Jack Dorsey launched an interesting experiment , asking his nearly four million followers to send him what they want to see the company improve or create. The replies ranged from basic design gripes to extinguishing national socialism , but today Dorsey boiled…

Special Report survey respondents and some of the industry’s top executives were nearly unanimous in believing 2017 will be another strong year for real estate. The first quarter especially is expected to start with a hiss and a roar as buyers and sellers hasten to make a move now that the election…

Amazon has just gotten a patent for an "airborne fulfillment center utilizing unmanned aerial vehicles for item delivery." Though the patent was granted in April 2016, the plans for it have just gone public on the US Patent and Trade Office website. What they describe sounds like something out of a…

President-elect Donald J. Trump at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Fla., on Wednesday. Kevin Hagen for The New York Times President-elect Donald J. Trump took credit on Wednesday for a decision by Sprint to add 5,000 jobs in the United States, as he tried to deliver on his promise to force…