Background activity can drain your battery and use your mobile data without you seeing it happen. Apps refresh in the background to keep content updated, which helps you pick up where you left off.

Microsoft has been adding AI features to Windows 11 for years, but things have recently entered a new phase, with both generative and so-called “agentic” AI features working their way deeper into the ...

Walter J. Scheirer is in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana 46556, USA. Like many areas of artificial intelligence, breakthrough ...

Every day, fake pictures are getting more realistic. Today, anyone can access a web-based program like Midjourney or Dall-e and create artificial or manipulated images without much effort. The good ...

Bring more life and personalization to your group chats, by adding backgrounds to your conversations in Messages in iOS 26 and iPadOS 26. Here's how to change yours for the better. Messages is an ...

Zach began writing for CNET in November, 2021 after writing for a broadcast news station in his hometown, Cincinnati, for five years. You can usually find him reading and drinking coffee or watching a ...

In today's world of AI and machine intelligence, it sometimes skips the mind that the primary end-user of many computing systems are … human. And, as humans, we are far from perfect – not just in our ...

If you’re connecting a new Apple Watch to your iPhone for the first time or re-pairing after a factory reset, understanding how to pair them is crucial. Below, we’ve covered all the scenarios you may ...

If Christa Gail Pike's execution proceeds as planned next year, she will become the first woman put to death in Tennessee since the state began to formally document capital punishment more than a ...

The Russo brothers have shared a teasing photo from the Avengers: Doomsday set, alongside the caption: "look hard." The monochrome image, below, shows one of the brothers sat in a director's chair ...