I started my career with CNET all the way back in 2005, when the (original) Motorola Razrs were all the rage. Since then, I've written about everything from consumer electronics to internet culture ...

This time, Android 17 Beta 2 simplifies the privacy icons with more instantly recognizable designs. Android 17 Beta 2 is ...

If you’ve been a Netflix subscriber for a while, you might remember having the perfect profile icon—maybe a classic character from Castlevania, a favorite from an earlier season of Stranger Things, or ...

Windows 11 users can now show the battery percentage directly on the taskbar. To enable it, go to Settings > System > Power & Battery and toggle on Battery percentage. This addition restores ...

Are you looking to personalize your iPhone's Home Screen beyond the standard layout? Changing app icons is a creative way to customize your device's appearance and make it uniquely yours. Whether ...

We recently identified a new set of icons in Android Auto to indicate signal strength. The icons appear rounder, distant from the currently sharp-edged ones you see on Android Auto. We also see new ...

It has been 17 years since the iPhone was released and Apple is now—only now!—allowing you to put app icons where you want them. When iOS 18 is released this fall, you’ll be able to put icons and ...

Google added themed icons to Android quite a few years ago at this point, but many apps have still not yet adopted them. One long holdout, Microsoft Teams, has finally changed that though, as the ...

Microsoft just redesigned all of its Office icons to embrace the AI era, and, according to the company, that means ditching solid shapes for all things “fluid and vibrant.” The 12 new icons, which ...

It’s often easy to look at certain gaming properties and wonder what “big changes” are coming to the title or series over the course of however long. After all, for certain entities, continual updates ...

Blake has over a decade of experience writing for the web, with a focus on mobile phones, where he covered the smartphone boom of the 2010s and the broader tech scene. When he's not in front of a ...