Enlarge Image Dave Cheng/CNET While 2015 was a milestone year for Huawei, who with the help of Google infiltrated the US with the Nexus 6P, it was also a big year for another Chinese smartphone maker.Oppo on Thursday a ounced it sold 50 million phones in 2015, which represents a 67 percent year-on-y...

Enlarge ImageAdobe Lightroom lets people edit and catalog photos. Screenshot by Stephen Shankland/CNET Adobe Systems updated its Lightroom software on Wednesday so people stitching multiple photos into one panorama can preserve more of the scene.Panoramic stitching is a popular way to tu a lot of sm...

Mark Zuckerberg is pushing his company to be more than just a place we share cat videos. James Martin/CNET Facebook and Apple's offices are separated by just 15 miles of highway, a 22-minute drive. But they might as well be worlds apart.Where Apple on Tuesday told investors that iPhone sales growth ...

Smartphone sales had a ba er year in 2015, according to market researcher IDC.Smartphone shipments likely had their best year ever in 2015, according to preliminary data released Wednesday by market researcher IDC.Global smartphone vendors shipped 1.43 billion units last year, an increase of 10.1 pe...

Enlarge ImageThe Challenger crew. NASA Thirty years ago Thursday, I watched in real time, along with millions of other schoolchildren, as my first real heroes died in an awful explosion over the Florida coastline. The Space Shuttle Challenger disaster took the lives of seven astronauts on January 28...

To some, 37-year-old Tim Friede would seem like a crazy man. To others, he would seem like a hero. The Wisconsin man, who has no formal scientific training, has been injecting himself with snake venom for the past 16 years in an attempt to immunize himself to the poison. In a video released by Barcr...

Did T-Mobile's no-holds barred advertising campaign cross the line of ethical business practices?Three labor unions think so and are using their consumer advocacy group to accuse the carrier of deceptive advertising as well as placing customers on services they never asked for, such as device insura...

Today, our spotlight story is the Loon Copter, a drone from Oakland University designed to hover, float, and dive -- and you won't believe how well it cuts through water. We're also excited about "Fossilized," a project by architecture students intended to create beautiful, imperfect structures from...

Did T-Mobile's no-holds barred advertising campaign cross the line of ethical business practices?Three labor unions think so and are using their consumer advocacy group to accuse the carrier of deceptive advertising as well as placing customers on services they never asked for, such as device insura...

Smartphone sales had a ba er year in 2015, according to market researcher IDC.Smartphone shipments likely had their best year ever in 2015, according to preliminary data released Wednesday by market researcher IDC.Global smartphone vendors shipped 1.43 billion units last year, an increase of 10.1 pe...

Enlarge ImageOverall, the Swagway seems like a good hoverboard, iFixit said.iFixitWe've seen a lot of pictures lately of charred, smoldering hoverboard i ards. Now, thanks to the repair gurus at iFixit, you can peek inside a hoverboard that doesn't have fire damage.The iFixit site, which regularly c...

Starry Station, a $350 Wi-Fi hub, is the company's first product. Starry Can your broadband co ection be faster, cheaper and wholly wireless? A startup called Starry thinks so and intends to take the place of your cable or phone company. The New York- and Boston-based startup, created by the folks w...

Enlarge ImageThe Challenger crew NASA Thirty years ago Thursday, I watched in real time, along with millions of other schoolchildren, as my first real heroes died in an awful explosion over the Florida coastline. The Space Shuttle Challenger disaster took the lives of seven astronauts on January 28,...

The iPhone is still popular though Apple's latest results paint a bleak picture. Sarah Tew/CNET Apple may have reported essentially flat iPhone sales in its quarterly ea ings report Tuesday, but the device is still hot in the world's biggest markets, according to new research.During the final quarte...

The iPhone is still popular though Apple's latest results paint a bleak picture. Sarah Tew/CNET Apple may have reported essentially flat iPhone sales in its quarterly ea ings report Tuesday, but the device is still hot in the world's biggest markets, according to new research.During the final quarte...

Mark Zuckerberg is pushing his company to be more than just a place we share cat videos. James Martin/CNET Facebook and Apple's offices are separated by just 15 miles of highway, a 22 minute drive. But they might as well be worlds apart.The two company's fortunes are increasingly different, with App...

Enlarge ImageThe drivers in the class action lawsuit had sought to be classified as employees, rather than independent contractors. Lyft Lyft drivers in Califo ia will remain independent contractors. That's the takeaway from a settlement Tuesday between the popular ride-hailing service and its drive...

The iPhone is still popular though Apple's latest results paint a bleak picture. Sarah Tew/CNET Apple may have reported essentially flat iPhone sales in its quarterly ea ings report Tuesday, but the device is still hot in the world's biggest markets, according to new research.During the final quarte...

Enlarge ImageToss another Tauntaun on the barbie. The Fowndry The Death Star makes it easy to conceive of new Star Wars home decor and accessories. The thought process goes something like this: Is the object round? Yes? Great! Make it look like the Death Star! Finally, someone applied that simple lo...

Time for redesign and possibly a rebranding. Sarah Tew/CNET Remember Google Glass? Well, Google would apparently rather you didn't.The tech titan last weekend erased all the social media cha els dedicated to its $1,500 smart specs, which it stopped selling in January 2015. Google Glass wearers, or E...