Tech Samsung This time in Minnesota by Jordan Golson @jlgolson Oct 8, 2016, 7:48p Brian Green Another replacement Samsung Galaxy Note 7 has reportedly caught fire in Minnesota. The news comes just days after a replacement Note 7 caught fire on a Southwest flight in Kentucky (seen in the picture…

The "future of Windows 10" implies a conceptual discussion, and not just a hardware reveal. Microsoft's invitation to its New York event, where it is expected to unveil a new Surface AIO PC. The exact location has been obscured by PCWorld. Credit: Microsoft It’s official: Microsoft will hold an…

SAN FRANCISCO A U.S. senator and civil groups critical of surveillance practices on Friday called on the government to release a 2015 order by a secret court directing Yahoo to scan all its users' incoming email, saying it appeared to involve new interpretations of at least two important legal…

Google has released a new open-source font called Noto, which supports 800 languages and covers 110 writing systems. Short for 'No more Tofu', the name of the new typeface is a nod to what people call the default white boxes that appear when a computer doesn't understand a character on a website.…

This summer, Samsung suffered the worst calamity that could befall the manufacturer of a mass-market device with millions of shipments: a hardware defect serious enough to force the recall of all Galaxy Note 7 handsets . This summer . It was August when rumors of exploding Galaxy Notes started…

A 1992 paper by Catherine Plaisant describes a touchscreen "slider toggle." Apple lawyers said that until the iPhone was unveiled, it wouldn't have been obvious to use such an invention on a phone. Court documents Apple v. Samsung Supreme Court may reel in Apple v. Samsung damage award Supreme Court…

650 million people use Facebook Events — 100 million every day — but it’s a smaller sect of hardcore extroverts who discover these parties and meetups, then invite everyone else. Now Facebook is giving its most outgoing users a dedicated app for browsing and searching for stuff going on nearby. And…

The Obama administration on Friday officially accused Russia of attempting to interfere in the 2016 elections, including by hacking the computers of the Democratic National Committee and other political organizations. The denunciation, made by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and…

Snapchat is fighting back against Instagram Stories, which rocketed to 100 million daily users by spotlighting the cloned feature atop the feed. To make Snapchat more “friends first,” it’s moving friends’ Stories above Discover where they used to be to make sure you don’t miss people you care about.…

Microsoft is building a Windows 10 version of its famous Paint tool. While the software maker has barely updated Paint in recent releases of Windows, the new Paint app will be completely overhauled. Twitter user WalkingCat has discovered video demonstrations of the new app, and it's clearly designed…

WASHINGTON—A federal appeals court on Friday reinstated a $119.6 million jury verdict favoring Apple Inc. in a patent fight with Samsung Electronics Co., a ruling that comes just days before a bigger battle between the smartphone rivals at the Supreme Court. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal…

Twitter Inc. shares plummeted on Thursday after it became apparent a sales process for the sputtering social-media company might not draw as many suitors as investors had hoped. Twitter stock, which had been marching steadily upward since news of a possible sale surfaced in September, fell 20% to…

Popular API documentation browser Dash was yesterday pulled from the App Store after a routine migration request. Dash developer Bogdan Popescu was given no explanation for why the app had been pulled aside from "fraudulent conduct," but after a conversation with Apple, he's been accused of…

When Sony debuted the A6300 prosumer mirrorless camera in March, it delivered a much-needed boost to autofocus performance with the company's Fast Hybrid AF system. But the lack of built-in image stabilization -- which most other mirrorless cameras have -- earned the company a big, fat demerit. And…

Zenvolution doesn’t really roll off the tongue. But hey, you come for the gadgets – the clever word play is really just a bonus, at best. And the company certainly has a lot to showcase on that front, covering all of the requisite bases with a new laptop, phone, tablet and watch. Let’s start with…

It's finally here: the Google Phone. Well, not quite. It's officially called "Pixel, Phone by Google," and the search giant unveiled it Tuesday during a much-hyped event in San Francisco. The Pixel, available with either a 5-inch or 5.5-inch display, is a grown up Google phone, meant to compete with…

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said to be eyeing the US for its Free Basics internet service. James Martin/CNET Facebook may have a new country in its sights for its controversial free-internet plan. The social media giant is in talks with US government officials and wireless carriers about bringing…

Instagram Stories is a hit, after just two months. CNET Just two months after cribbing one of Snapchat's most popular features, Instagram has a big hit on its hands. Instagram Stories, which lets people post a string of videos and pictures that disappear after 24 hours, has 100 million daily…

One of the most surprising things about Gears of War 4 for me was the discovery that, after all these years, shooting wave after wave of increasingly difficult enemies could still be really fun. To the franchise’s credit, Gears of War has steadily introduced complexities to the basic idea to keep it…

Today's Oculus Connect 3 keynote covered a lot of ground. Over two hours of speechmaking Facebook and Oculus executives covered everything from release dates, prices, content, social, and diversity, to mobile SDKs and foveated rendering. If you want to relive it the way it happened, you can check…

Everybody copies everybody. It doesn't mean they're "out of ideas" or "in a technological cul-de-sac" — or at least it doesn't necessarily mean that — it does mean they want to make money and keep users. It's actually one of my favorite elements of the tech industry. It's self-regulating in a small…

Look out, Apple! Google’s Pixel phones represent the very best of Android with solid specs and sharp software. Google’s poorly-kept secret, the Pixel and Pixel XL, are here. The pair are the first smartphones to be marketed as “made by Google,” but you should know that Taiwanese company HTC is still…

TOKYO (AP) — The new robot from Japanese automaker Toyota Motor Corp. can't do much but chatter in a high-pitched voice. The 39,800-yen ($390), 10-centimeter (4-inch) -tall, doll-like Kirobo Mini — whose name comes from "kibo," or "hope," and "robot" — supposedly has the smarts of a 5-year-old.…

A weed listing on Facebook's Marketplace. Twitter / @tombornal Facebook officially took the wraps off its new Craigslist and eBay competitor, called Marketplace, on Monday . And people are already using it to brazenly sell things that violate Facebook's policies, including drugs, animals, and adult…

Here are Google's Pixel phones. Again ! In some unfortunate error, UK phone seller Carphone Warehouse has full listings for two phones, cementing what we've already heard or seen , as well as demonstrating how Google hopes to pitch the two devices to smartphone shoppers. Gallery: Google Pixel leak…

A federal jury in Texas on Friday night ordered Apple to pay more than $302 million in damages for using VirnetX Holding Corp’s patented internet security technology without permission in features including its FaceTime video conferencing application. The verdict came in a new trial in Tyler, Texas…

It's no secret that Android is heavily integrated with Google search. Google Now (soon to be Google Assistant) is the primary voice assistant, and Google search is included on every device with the Google Play Store. According to Reuters , Google also pays device manufacturers to keep Google as the…

The actual tally of stolen user accounts from the hack Yahoo experienced could be much larger than 500 million, according to a former Yahoo executive familiar with its security practices. The former Yahoo insider says the architecture of Yahoo's back-end systems is organized in such a way that the…

Google announced today that its now ten-year old service Google Apps for Work (formerly Google Apps for Your Domain), is getting rebranded yet again. This time around, the company will call it “ G Suite .” Sounds more hip, right? Alongside the news, Google also noted a handful of upgrades and…

Qualcomm is in discussions to buy NXP Semiconductors in what would be another act of consolidation in the chip-making industry, a person briefed on the matter said on Thursday. If completed, a deal could be valued at more than $30 billion, given NXP’s market value of roughly $28 billion as of…

End of an era: BlackBerry stops making BlackBerrys The Canadian company announces it will no longer build its own hardware, and instead focus on software. by Bridget Carey CNET Your video, "End of an era: BlackBerry stops making BlackBerrys" will start after this message from our sponsors. Loading…

Photos: BlackBerry Over the Years Smartphone maker will stop making its own phones as sales dwindle fullscreen BlackBerry 850 Wireless (1999) Research In Motion launched the first BlackBerry, the 850 Wireless, in 1999. Al Seib/LA Times via Getty Images … BlackBerry 957 The BlackBerry 957 was…

28 September 2016, 12:08 am EDT By Sumit Passary Tech Times Samsung - Fascinating Facts About The Korean Electronics Giant Now Playing Latest News And Scoops On Smartphone Now Playing Samsung Galaxy Note 7 - What The Experts Are Saying Now Playing Samsung's flip phone codenamed Veyron was spotted on…

Wink is replacing its $69 squarish hub with a new, slimmer device, the Wink Hub 2 . The $99 device will go on sale in late October at various retailers, including Walmart. The hub works with many smart home protocols and devices to control a variety of smart locks, lights, and other products . With…

Watch out, GoPro: Snapchat Spectacles could succeed where Google Glass failed The company behind the popular messaging app is making sunglasses with a camera for taking and sharing point-of-view video. by Bridget Carey Close Drag Let's get this out of the way: Over the weekend, Snapchat unveiled a…

The company formerly known as Snapchat surprised the world last night by unveiling Spectacles , its first hardware product. The sunglasses, which record videos in 10-second increments, are expected to be available for sale sometime "soon." Snap Inc., as the company is now called, says it will be…