Spotify adds AI-powered Q&A and briefing generation features to podcasts For users, Spotify has been a place to consume podcasts made by other creators. The company wants to change that by introducing a personal podcast feature, which uses AI to generate podcasts for users based on an idea or a custom prompt. Earlier this month, the company released a GitHub-based command-line tool for Claude...

Robot Phones, Ultrathin Foldables, Cutting-Edge Cameras: CNET's Favorite Tech from MWC 2026At Mobile World Congress, every booth promises the future. If you believed everything on display, we'd all be driving wild hypercar concepts and watching humanoid robots do backflips. In an event packed with exciting gadgets and cool concepts, it's easy to forget that most of what glitters...

Search for missing airman presents serious test for US45 minutes agoSimi JolaosoNorth America correspondent, WashingtonGetty ImagesOne of two crew members of the downed F15 Eagle is still missingPresident Donald Trump had said Iran couldn't "do a thing" about American aircraft operating over its territory, insisting its air defences had been significantly weakened. His Defence Secretary Pete...

BBC reports from La Guaira, one of Venezuela's worst-hit areasBBC reporter Vanessa Silva visited the state of La Guaira in Venezuela, one of the areas worst affected by the twin earthquakes that rocked the country on Wednesday.Natacha Díaz, a mother almost voiceless, told the BBC that her two daughters, aged 22 and 23, are trapped in a small shopping centre where they worked as manicurists. She...

Apple Debuts the $599 iPhone 17E With MagSafe – and It Comes in Pink An iPhone 17E is the followup to last year's $599 iPhone 16E. Apple/Jeffrey Hazelwood/CNETApple on Monday unveiled its newest budget phone, the iPhone 17E. Like last year, it starts at $599 (£599, AU$999), but it comes with 256GB of base storage -- double last year's entry-level iPhone 16E. Perhaps the biggest...