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Smartwatches are too small to be useful for serious web browsing, and phone calls will be made using "hands-free" equipment, but their visibility will make them desirable fashion accessories

Samsung Galaxy Gear will be available in the coming weeks

There are ways to protect personal information while still enjoying much of what the Web has to offer

We all know our phones will be outdated sooner than we'd like. But here's how to minimize the tech-buyer’s remorse

Your online persona and possessions can help assuage grief over your passing

Bill Gates will have the final say in who gets the CEO role at Microsoft

Researchers repurpose TV signals to transfer data and power battery-free sensors

With Surface, Microsoft offers its own slant on tablets, for better or for worse (Credit: Josh Miller/CNET) It's no secret that there are some serious issues around competition and Windows that spell trouble not only for Microsoft's Surface, but for other tablets, detachables, and convertible devices running the latest incarnation of Microsoft's venerable operating system.

A bill working its way through Congress is an opportunity to update an unfair, outmoded cybersecurity law

The only issue related to the flip of the sun's magnetic field is that it corresponds with the peak of the sunspot cycle, when the sun is prone to launch flares and bursts of plasma into space that can effect satellites and power grids. John Matson reports.

Some of the injuries are so new that they currently lack names in the medical literature

The Air Force's decision to shut down a key component of its Space Surveillance Network will reduce the overall capacity of the debris-tracking system