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AT&T's latest deal will make it easier for mobile customers to coect while traveling in Cuba. CNET/Marguerite Reardon AT&T mobile customers visiting Cuba should be able to coect there more easily, thanks to a roaming and intercoection deal with telecom provider Empresa De Telecomunicaciones De Cuba, known as ETECSA. The company said Monday it would specify wireless roaming availability and pricing there at a later date. Typically, deals like this make voice calls cheaper to numbers in Cuba and would allow customers visiting the island to access voice, text and data roaming without having to swap a SIM card. "Cuba is a growing inteational calling destination for our customers," Bill Hague, AT...

The next batch of Nexus devices may rejigger the home screen. CNET Google's upcoming Nexus mobile devices may sport some renovations to the home screen.The 2016 models reportedly will feature a redesigned home screen with changes to the app drawer and other key features, blog site Android Police said on Monday, citing "multiple reliable sources."Specifically, Google will do away with the app launcher button at the bottom of the screen, which opens the app drawer showing your installed software, according to screenshots of the changes. Instead, you'll be able to open the app drawer by swiping up at the bottom of the screen or tapping on a small arrow that will appear above the app dock.To clo...

This is the Galaxy Note 5, but the Note 7 will be aounced on August 2nd. Josh Miller/CNET By the time Samsung officially unwraps the Samsung Galaxy Note 7 on Tuesday, August 2, there may be no more secrets to tell.The company has already begun a teaser campaign for the Note 7 on Korean TV that strongly hinted that the new phone is water-resistant, like the other members of 2016's Galaxy S7 family. Then, TalkAndroid.com spilled on a host of supposed features. And 9to5Google rounded out the leaks with a trove of alleged information, including some very credible-looking photos.While all such leaks should always be taken with a grain of salt, the reported details about the phone are pretty much ...

Social media is helping people find their loved ones missing after the Nice attack. Jody Giai An 8-month-old baby boy lost after the deadly Bastille Day attack in Nice, France, was found through Facebook.At least 84 people were killed watching fireworks Thursday night after a truck rammed into the celebration. The baby got lost from his caregivers amid the panicked crowd fleeing the scene. Tiava Baer, who said she is not the baby's mother but didn't disclose her relationship to him, posted a message on Facebook along with a picture of the boy stating that he had been lost and she was hoping to find him. The post has been shared more 22,000 times since it was posted 21 hours ago, soon after t...

RoadshowNewsAuto TechWatch this homemade autonomous Tesla charger in actionIn the words of Jean-Baptiste Emanuel Zorg, "If you want something done, do it yourself." Electric-vehicle chargers that automatically plug themselves into cars are not yet a thing, except for Tesla's prototype. With that in mind, one man has gone and built himself an autonomous Tesla Model S charger, beating nearly everyone to the punch.It's not the most elegant solution, but considering this whole job was put together with nothing more than a Raspberry Pi 3 motherboard and a few parts, it's certainly less complicated than Tesla's solution. It'll also be undoubtedly less expensive, as Electrek notes that the man behi...

Tyler Lizenby/CNET A lot of us have been waiting for smarter smart home controls from Apple -- now, with new improvements to HomeKit in iOS 10, Apple wants to deliver.First aounced two years ago during the WWDC 2014 keynote, HomeKit is a set of protocols for how smart home products should communicate and work together within Apple's iOS software for mobile devices. This year in iOS 10, you'll be able to manage your gadgets right in the Control Center by swiping up and then over to access a dedicated smart home section. There will also be a new "Home" app that'll serve as a central point of organization for your coected home setup.This is a developing story. Follow our liveblog for the latest...

Future smartypants. CNET Google is putting building blocks in place to make your smartphone apps a whole lot brainier.The search giant brought an early version of TensorFlow, its "neural network" software platform, to Apple's iPhones and iPads. The platform should enable more sophisticated apps from Google and other developers using TensorFlow, which was already available on Google's Android mobile software.Also on this podcast, we delve into players transitioning to digital video-game purchases and people holding onto their iPhones for longer before replacing them.The 3:59 gives you bite-size news and analysis about the top stories of the day, brought to you by CNET Executive Editor Roger C...

The house that is CNET has given us some amazing tech memories, but we've decided we want to give it a fresh coat of paint, expand the kitchen, and refinish the floors. That's a lot of work, and it all starts with our "front door."There's no question CNET is the market leader in tech news & reviews, which would make it easy to rest on our laurels. Instead, it just drives us to move faster and be better, challenge our assumptions, and constantly be ready to reinvent ourselves. Are we writing about the most important things in tech? Check out our new coverage of the Smart Home to see some cool changes we're making there. Are we helping people find the amazing things we write? Download our new ...

[embedded content] Engineers Geifer Smith and Audrey Bowden, working with a team of Stanford engineers, have devised a way to update what they call the "gold standard" of urinalysis tests. Their research was published in Lab on a Chip earlier this month.Urinalysis is an important diagnostic tool in detecting anything from infections to certain kinds of cancer.Originally developed in 1956, the current testing method was used to track blood sugar levels. The proposed device would replace the outdated procedure, which involves matching a dipstick to a colour chart. If you think that sounds like there might be accuracy problems (in colour matching, not... erm... providing a sample), you'd be rig...

The Amazon Echo, Tap and Echo Dot. Chris Monroe/CNET Google is set to enter the virtual-agent market with a voice-activated device to be aounced at its aual Google I/O developers conference on Wednesday, according to a report from The New York Times.Called Google Home, the device will compete directly with Amazon's Echo, a smart home assistant that responds to spoken commands to play music, order pizza or call an Uber, among other tasks, according to the report. Echo launched in 2014 and is estimated to have sold more than 3 million units.The new Google product is expected to go on sale in the fall, according to the Times report.Google I/O is scheduled to start Wednesday with a keynote prese...

Enlarge ImageHomer gets to grips with technology. Fox As a great man once said, the answer to life's problems aren't at the bottom of a bottle, they're on TV! That man was Homer Simpson, and this weekend he appeared in the first ever live segment on "The Simpsons".In the episode "Simprovised", broadcast on Sunday 15 May, Homer spent 3 minutes fielding questions from fans, his animated character chatting in real time as voice actor Dan Castellaneta improvised answers. Viewers phoned in to challenge Homer with such hot-button questions as whether he prefers Ley or Carl, or Chicago or New York pizza.The live animation was possible thanks to Adobe Character Animator, a feature in Adobe's After E...

RoadshowCar IndustryNissan's xStorage is a home battery pack like Tesla's PowerwallEnlarge ImageWhile it might look nice in this living room setting, you'll probably still want to shove it in the garage. Nissan While it might seem a bit weird right now, using batteries for home storage will likely grow in popularity as battery prices plummet and the auto industry continues its march towards electrification. Tesla has its Powerwall, Mercedes has its own residential battery, and now Nissan's getting in on the game with xStorage.With prices starting at €4,000 ($4,570, directly converted) for 4.2 kWh hours of juice, it's not going to provide enough electricity to give your Leaf a full off-grid c...

Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that's taken over our lives.They were there. Then they were gone. NJ State Police/Facebook screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET Burglars will burgle. But home owners will increasingly avail themselves of technology to protect their abodes while they're out.So it is that, according to a New Jersey State Police Facebook post, two burglars entered a house Tuesday moing in Upper Pittsgrove Township, Salem County.They allegedly kicked down a side door, but they weren't ready for a voice from the heavens.Once they'd gotten used to the barking of the dogs in the house, they suddenly heard the owner herself."The home owner noticed the i...

By moving around the tablet in any direction, you can see the Fiat 500 at any angle, including from the inside. Andrew Hoyle/CNET Car dealerships can be a stressful. Sure, it's a chance for you to get an up-close-and-personal look at your next potential ride, but then there are the salesmen to contend with. Maybe you just want to check out the vehicle in peace. Augmented reality, which superimposes digital images on top of the real world, aims to cut out the dealership by giving you a virtual representation of a Fiat 500 that you can walk around, get inside and customize with different colors and rims -- all with a phone. The demonstration, shown off at the Mobile World Congress trade show i...

Car dealerships can be a stressful.Sure, it's a chance for you to get an up-close-and-personal look at your next potential ride, but then there are the salesmen to contend with. Maybe you just want to check out the vehicle in peace. Augmented reality, which superimposes digital images on top of the real world, aims to cut out the dealership by giving you a virtual representation of a Fiat 500 that you can walk around, get inside and customize with different colors and rims -- all with a phone. The demonstration, shown off at the Mobile World Congress trade show in Barcelona, was created by consulting firm Accenture in partnership with Google, which has been working on the technology through ...

At last, two of the most confounding political minds of our time -- Donald Trump and Tyrion Laister -- have met. And amazingly, when the two sit down together, only one of them is rendered speechless.That's one of the many great moments in yet another Trump mashup I can't stop watching, this time stitching The Donald's talking head onto a variety of characters from " Game of Thrones." As with the "Darth Trump" mashup, this one is a lot of the Republican presidential front-ruer rambling on, and our favorite characters from another universe just seeming baffled. New glimpses of 'Game of Thrones,' season... 1 - 5 of 20 Next Prev With all of Trump's rhetoric about building a wall along the Ameri...

Sure Batman might have some really cool toys, but it's kind of hard to beat the simple elegance of the batarang. Part boomerang, part ninja throwing star, the whizzing weapon has delivered plenty of "kablooeys" to the noggins of evildoers over the years. Now, bad guys in Germany had better watch out. YouTube inventor Patrick Priebe, who lives in Germany, has just made his own working and folding batarang. The device looks impressive enough, with matte black bat wings popping out to the side from a central disc. What's even more batass is that the gizmo actually works. As you can see in the video above, Priebe hurls the thing at a variety of materials, including some seriously reinforced foam...

A tiny startup made a big splash this week by pledging to deliver a wireless Inteet service fast enough to replace your home broadband coection.Starry is taking on cable broadband with a wireless service that promises to deliver 1 gigabit per second downloads. But I wouldn't start drafting that nasty break-up letter to Comcast just yet.Starry, a company based in New York and Boston, on Wednesday unveiled a 1-gigabit Inteet serviceunveiled a 1-gigabit Inteet service, which will launch with a trial in Boston over the summer. That's about 10 times faster than the average home Inteet coection and speedy enough to let you download a two-hour high-definition movie in 25 seconds. If the promise hol...