Witness the birth of 'Jurassic Park' dinosaurs[ Sun, 07 Apr 2013 14:00:00 GMT ]How did special-effects whiz Stan Winston create the beasts of "Jurassic Park"? As moviegoers experience "Jurassic Park 3D" we reveal the inner workings of the dinosaurs in the film. [Read more]

At what age did you start thinking about sound?[ Sun, 07 Apr 2013 15:06:00 GMT ]Audiophiles -- or anyone who occasionally listens to music without multitasking -- may fall in love with sound. [Read more]

EA the worst company in America? Again?[ Sun, 07 Apr 2013 15:30:08 GMT ]Electronic Arts CEO attempts to express understanding of why his company is again in the Final Four of the Consumerist's Worst Company awards. Is the company really so bad? [Read more]

How the Post-it note was born[ Fri, 05 Apr 2013 10:44:40 EDT ]It's been described as the solution to a problem nobody realized existed.

Facebook Home, explained[ Fri, 05 Apr 2013 10:53:36 EDT ]Facebook has unveiled a new product, Facebook Home, at an event everyone knew would have something to do with phones and apps and operating systems.

On Twitter, Ebert found new voice[ Fri, 05 Apr 2013 17:06:50 EDT ]It was on the pages of newspapers and in the coveted aisle seat on television's "At the Movies" that the world met Roger Ebert, the passionate lover and sometimes combative critic of film who virtually defined cinema critique for a generation.

Computer + banana = fun[ Fri, 05 Apr 2013 15:02:06 EDT ]To understand Jay Silver, it helps to go back 10 years, to a night he spent flying kites on a beach in his native Florida with the woman who would become his wife.

How to control a computer with a banana[ Fri, 05 Apr 2013 10:11:17 EDT ]To understand Jay Silver, it helps to go back 10 years, to a night he spent flying kites on a beach in his native Florida with the woman who would become his wife.

Sahara went from green to desert in a flash[ Fri, 05 Apr 2013 21:48:18 GMT ]By Becky OskinLiveScienceFrom lakes and grasslands with hippos and giraffes to a vast desert, North Africa's sudden geographical transformation 5,000 years ago was one of the planet's most dramatic climate shifts.The transformation took place nearly simultaneously across the continent's northern half, a new study finds. The results will appear in an upcoming issue of the journal Earth and Planetar...

Smart bracelet sends alert if wearer is in danger[ Fri, 05 Apr 2013 22:21:55 GMT ]Humanitarian work is essential to helping impoverished or otherwise stricken areas, but very often dangerous for the actual aid workers. A new cell-powered smart bracelet for people at risk would enable a quick response to an attack or kidnapping.The "Natalia Project" bracelets were proposed after the 2009 kidnapping and murder of an aid worker in Chechnya, after whom the device was named — and th...

NASA to get $100 million for asteroid mission, senator says[ Fri, 05 Apr 2013 22:33:06 GMT ]By Mike WallSpace.comNASA will likely get $100 million next year to jump-start an audacious program to drag an asteroid into orbit around the moon for research and exploration purposes, U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Fla., says.The $100 million will probably be part of President Barack Obama's federal budget request for 2014, which is expected to be released next week, Nelson said. The money is intended...

Bitcoin: The Internet's secret currency makes its first public appearances[ Fri, 05 Apr 2013 22:44:17 GMT ]Financial brinksmanship in the Eastern Mediterranean seems an unlikely way for an obscure yet infamous virtual currency to become a household word, but that's what happened with the bitcoin. Over the last few weeks, bank turmoil in Cyprus and a frenzy of attention from the media have propelled the "crypto-currency" from the darkest corners of the Internet to the front page. But is this phenomenon ...

Apple iMessage encryption stymies government snoops[ Sat, 06 Apr 2013 00:57:42 GMT ]Apple's iMessage feature may be impossible for the U.S. government to spy on — and that seems to have at least one law-enforcement agency worried. "Text messages sent via iMessages between Apple products (iPhone, iPad, iPod touch and iMac) are not captured," the Drug Enforcement Administration said in a recent unclassified memo addressed to other law-enforcement agencies and obtained by CNET. ...

Former News Corp. president wants Hulu for $500 million, says report[ Fri, 05 Apr 2013 23:29:42 GMT ]Peter Chernin, who's also a former Hulu board member, wants to buy the video-streaming service he helped launch, Reuters reports. [Read more]

Facebook Home isn't where your privacy is[ Sat, 06 Apr 2013 11:00:00 GMT ]commentary Facebook's latest attempt to get you to spend more time with its services bodes ill for the privacy-minded, but not all hope is lost. [Read more]

One-on-one with the guy who built Facebook's Home[ Sat, 06 Apr 2013 11:00:00 GMT ]Adam Mosseri, the social network's director of product, sat down with CNET and told us about the little details hidden inside Facebook's new Android abode. [Read more]

Facebook's one small step for mankind[ Sat, 06 Apr 2013 11:00:00 GMT ]commentary The announcement of Facebook Home may not signal the end of the infuriating relationship people have with the technology they use. But it's a move in the right direction. [Read more]

High-end audio on the cheap[ Sat, 06 Apr 2013 14:36:00 GMT ]By carefully selecting used high-end gear, you can assemble a great hi-fi and save a bundle. [Read more]

How the Post-it note was born[ Fri, 05 Apr 2013 10:44:40 EDT ]It's been described as the solution to a problem nobody realized existed.

Facebook Home, explained[ Fri, 05 Apr 2013 10:53:36 EDT ]Facebook has unveiled a new product, Facebook Home, at an event everyone knew would have something to do with phones and apps and operating systems.

On Twitter, Ebert found new voice[ Fri, 05 Apr 2013 17:06:50 EDT ]It was on the pages of newspapers and in the coveted aisle seat on television's "At the Movies" that the world met Roger Ebert, the passionate lover and sometimes combative critic of film who virtually defined cinema critique for a generation.

Computer + banana = fun[ Fri, 05 Apr 2013 15:02:06 EDT ]To understand Jay Silver, it helps to go back 10 years, to a night he spent flying kites on a beach in his native Florida with the woman who would become his wife.

How to control a computer with a banana[ Fri, 05 Apr 2013 10:11:17 EDT ]To understand Jay Silver, it helps to go back 10 years, to a night he spent flying kites on a beach in his native Florida with the woman who would become his wife.

Sense of place found in rat's brain[ Fri, 05 Apr 2013 00:49:32 GMT ]By Tia Ghose, LiveScience Scientists have watched a specific network of brain cells light up in rats to create a mental map of their location.The new study, in which researchers looked at brain cells that literally turned on and off like light switches as rats navigated a maze, could shed light on how the brain creates a sense of place.The study is published Thursday in the journal Science.Findi...

Computers face a new test: Grading essays at college level[ Fri, 05 Apr 2013 01:33:48 GMT ]Imagine taking a college exam, and, instead of handing in a blue book and getting a grade from a professor a few weeks later, clicking the "send" button when you are done and receiving a grade back instantly, your essay scored by a software program.And then, instead of being done with that exam, imagine that the system would immediately let you rewrite the test to try to improve your grade. EdX, t...

New tarantula is as big as your face -- and poisonous, too[ Fri, 05 Apr 2013 15:06:31 GMT ]By Marc LallanillaLiveScienceIt's big, it's hairy and it's venomous.The newest spider to give arachnophobes the willies, a tarantula named Poecilotheria rajaei has been discovered on the island nation of Sri Lanka.With a leg span of 8 inches (20 centimeters) and enough venom to kill mice, lizards, small birds and snakes, according to Sky News, the crawler is covered in subtle markings of gray, pin...

Radar plane scans volcanoes, archaeological sites[ Fri, 05 Apr 2013 15:34:33 GMT ]By Becky OskinLiveScienceNASA's globe-trotting, remote-sensing plane wrapped up a month-long trip to Central and South America in March, returning with images of volcanoes, Amazon floods and archaeological sites.The small Gulfstream-III passenger plane carries a 10-foot-long (3 meters) radar pod, the unmanned aerial vehicle synthetic aperture radar (UAVSAR). The radar scans Earth's surface with ra...

Long-lost 'twins' turn Internet meeting into Kickstarter success [ Fri, 05 Apr 2013 15:56:55 GMT ]Two young women born in South Korea, and raised continents apart, discovered each other on the Internet and suspect they are twins separated at birth. The girls launched a Kickstarter project to help fund their reunion and record their first in-person meeting and DNA tests in a full-length documentary. Barely two weeks later, the Internet has funded it past the target goal.Anaïs Bordier and Samant...

Zynga CEO to earn $1 as other execs chase big bonuses[ Fri, 05 Apr 2013 14:35:19 GMT ]The social game developer alters its compensation plan to help retain top executives -- a problem for Zynga since it went public in late 2011. [Read more]

Apple to develop digital wallet in next year or two, says analyst[ Fri, 05 Apr 2013 14:40:17 GMT ]The iPhone maker may tap into NFC or a different technology to cook up a digital wallet for iOS users, says analyst Gene Munster. [Read more]

WebKit fracture puts a pinch on open-source browser efforts[ Fri, 05 Apr 2013 14:47:13 GMT ]With Google concentrating on its own Blink, Apple is tightening the WebKit browser engine code base. That'll limit other projects seeking to customize the browser. [Read more]

HTC One 64G Developer Edition preorders start today[ Fri, 05 Apr 2013 15:36:26 GMT ]The $649 unlocked and tweakable version of the HTC One is now up for preorder. Buyers can place their orders at the HTC Web site. [Read more]

Confused about Facebook Home? Ask Maggie has answers (FAQ)[ Fri, 05 Apr 2013 15:53:10 GMT ]In this edition of Ask Maggie, CNET's Marguerite Reardon answers questions and explains what Facebook's new Home apps are and why you should care. [Read more]

Next iPhone could land this summer[ Wed, 03 Apr 2013 19:38:23 EDT ]Let the iPhone 6 speculation begin.

Was this Zuckerberg's first site?[ Thu, 04 Apr 2013 12:25:31 EDT ]A blinking dinosaur eye. A nod to Eminem. A crude effort at connecting friends and "friends of friends." Were these the awkward first steps toward a multibillion-dollar social media empire?

How the Post-it note was born[ Fri, 05 Apr 2013 10:44:40 EDT ]It's been described as the solution to a problem nobody realized existed.

Facebook Home, explained[ Fri, 05 Apr 2013 10:53:36 EDT ]Facebook has unveiled a new product, Facebook Home, at an event everyone knew would have something to do with phones and apps and operating systems.

How to control a computer with a banana[ Fri, 05 Apr 2013 10:11:17 EDT ]To understand Jay Silver, it helps to go back 10 years, to a night he spent flying kites on a beach in his native Florida with the woman who would become his wife.

SpaceShipTwo glides past the moon[ Thu, 04 Apr 2013 03:03:26 GMT ]Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo rocket plane glided its way through another test flight on Wednesday, in preparation for its first powered launch later this year.The plane was carried up from California's Mojave Air and Space Port, nestled beneath its WhiteKnightTwo mothership, at 7:18 a.m. PT (10:18 a.m. ET), Parabolic Arc's Doug Messier reported. After its release at high altitude, SpaceShipTwo s...

Internet takes education to new level: Will universities make the grade?[ Thu, 04 Apr 2013 03:36:08 GMT ]More and more universities have made a place for the Internet in today's educational offerings, but will universities still have a place in tomorrow's educational environment?"We're about to undergo a tectonic transformation in education," Caltech astrophysicist George Djorgovski, a pioneer in scientific applications for virtual worlds, told me on Wednesday. "This is the start of an 'S' curve, and...

Pre-caffeine tech: Facebook phone, college corgis! [ Thu, 04 Apr 2013 13:44:27 GMT ]Our pre-caffeine roundup is a collection of the hottest, strangest, and most amusing stories of the morning.What can we expect from today's big announcement from Facebook?Here are some purported “Facebook Home” leaks which show an attractive-looking Android UI.Speaking of Facebook: Holy crud, is this Mark Zuckerberg’s embarrassing childhood Angelfire website?Meanwhile, here's Bill Gates and Paul A...

By 2050, Arctic to be warmer and greener[ Thu, 04 Apr 2013 15:11:38 GMT ]By Tia GhoseLiveScienceLarge swaths of the Arctic tundra will be warm enough to support lush vegetation and trees by 2050, a new study suggests.Higher temperatures will lessen snow cover, according to the study, which is detailed in the March 31 issue of the journal Nature Climate Change. That, in turn, will decrease the sunlight reflected back into the atmosphere and increase warming. About half ...

Hello, Facebook phone? Social network's 'new Home on Android' revealed today[ Thu, 04 Apr 2013 15:23:13 GMT ]Members of the press are gathering at Facebook's headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif., to see the social network's "new home on Android." Rumor is that this new home will appear on an HTC smartphone — but it will likely reveal the future of Facebook phone interaction for everybody. At least, everybody on Android.Initial reports indicated that Facebook is intending to introduce a modified version of ...

'Arrested Development' to debut on Netflix on May 26[ Thu, 04 Apr 2013 14:13:14 GMT ]All 15 new episodes will be available for streaming on Netflix toward the end of next month. [Read more]

Blink, Google's new Chrome browser engine, comes to life[ Thu, 04 Apr 2013 14:35:02 GMT ]The starting code base for what will become Chrome 28 is in place, and programmers are updating it. Blink's birth was not without labor pains, though. [Read more]

Get a refurbished Kindle Fire tablet for $69.99[ Thu, 04 Apr 2013 14:45:00 GMT ]It's the first-gen Fire, but still one of the best tablets around for consuming movies, music, TV shows, and, of course, books. Plus: an incredible online-backup deal. [Read more]

LinkedIn adds mentions, looks to strike up conversations[ Thu, 04 Apr 2013 15:00:00 GMT ]Inspired by Twitter and others, the professional network is introducing a feature to get people talking, but there's one little twist. [Read more]

Apple aims to outdo Google's Street View[ Thu, 04 Apr 2013 15:12:34 GMT ]A newly-published patent application from Apple envisions a panoramic navigation system similar to Street View but with one distinct advantage. [Read more]

How wearable tech tracks your life[ Wed, 03 Apr 2013 12:06:08 EDT ]CNN takes a look at the future of interactive technology.

Startup making cheap 3-D printers[ Thu, 04 Apr 2013 09:18:13 EDT ]There is no shortage of amazing industrial commercial applications for 3-D printing -- internal organs, stem cells, artificial limbs, art, cars, customizable furniture.