While my esteemed CNET colleagues were in San Francisco for the release of the Samsung Galaxy S26 series, I was in Barcelona ahead of MWC 2026, seeing the sights and eying the fancy cars that ply the Spanish city’s streets.
Once my colleagues…
When artificial intelligence systems began acing long-standing academic assessments, researchers realized they had a problem: the tests were too easy. Popular evaluations, such as the Massive Multitask Language Understanding (MMLU) exam, once…
Foldable phones have been around for years, but one of the biggest design frustrations has been the visible crease along the internal display. Thankfully, that may finally be fading into history sooner than many expected. Two upcoming…
A24 pulled back the curtain to The Backrooms, teasing an unsettling, must-see sci-fi horror movie from director Kane Parsons. Based on Parsons’s web series of the same name, The Backrooms follows a psychiatrist who ventures into an…
When you go to perform the dreaded chore that is cleaning your toilet bowl, you likely notice that simply flushing your toilet isn’t enough to get the rim clean. However, this may soon be a problem of the past.
At KBIS 2026, the CNET team saw a…
Xiaomi today launched a slew of gadgets ahead of the Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona including a camera-focused flagship smartphone, an AirTag clone, Xiaomi Watch 5 smartwatch, and an ultra slim power bank.
The China-based company has…
I took off my shoes to enter the theater space. My eyeglasses, too. The shoes were part of the ritual, but it turned out that An Ark, an augmented reality theater piece showcased at The Shed in New York City, uses Magic Leap 2 glasses. And those…
In 2024, over 250 class action lawsuits were filed under a US federal law passed in 1988 to protect VHS rental records.
The Video Privacy Protection Act was originally aimed at VHS rental stores, but plaintiffs’…
Here’s what nobody at your company’s AI strategy meeting is talking about: your existing customers are churning at the same rate they were before you shipped a single AI feature.
In some cases, faster. And the…
The hype around Grand Theft Auto 6 continues to build, and an alleged former Rockstar Games employee has added to the high expectations with a fresh rumor. The new set of potential features suggests that GTA 6 might raise the bar on realism…
