Bridget Carey

It’s a great time for a hardware guy to be running Apple. When John Ternus takes the helm in September as the company’s new CEO, analysts expect Apple to launch a whole new breed of […]

I didn’t need to do heavy 4K video editing or complex AI prompting to push the Neo to its limits. All it took for me to crash Apple’s hot-selling budget MacBook was opening too many […]

Apr 17, 2026 Tech After using the MacBook Neo for a month, CNET’s Bridget Carey has noticed some drawbacks to the 8GB of RAM on the budget machine when juggling too much on Safari. How […]

There’s something delightful about seeing astronauts take incredible photos of Earth with the same model of iPhone I stuff in my back pocket.  This week, the four astronauts aboard the Integrity spacecraft used an iPhone […]

With Apple turning 50 this week, it’s been fun to go down memory lane with my fellow CNET teammates, looking back on Apple’s most iconic tech and sharing Apple’s effect on our lives.  This week’s […]

You don’t want to be the last person in your group text to see Bigfoot — er, the Bigfoot emoji — which just so happens to be one of eight new icons in Apple’s iOS […]

Apple is full of surprises lately.  Last week, the company released its cheapest laptop ever, the MacBook Neo, priced at $499 for students with Apple’s education discount. (Non-education folk will pay $599 for the colorful […]

Mar 20, 2026 Tech Apple reveals details on the new AirPods Max 2, but the price is giving some folks sticker shock, since it costs nearly as much as the MacBook Neo. CNET’s Bridget Carey […]