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.

Smartwatches: Failure, a new hope[ Mon, 08 Apr 2013 11:39:16 EDT ]In that never-ending search for "the next big thing in tech," talk has turned to wearable gadgets, especially in the form of a smartwatch that syncs with your smartphone.

North Korea website hacked[ Mon, 08 Apr 2013 10:36:28 EDT ]Kim Jong Un was dressed as a pig on North Korea's government website after it was hacked. CNN's Kyung Lah reports.

Map apps & driving: against the law?[ Mon, 08 Apr 2013 17:11:26 EDT ]It's weird out there and getting weirder: A California court just ruled that screwing around with your phone's map app while driving ought to be as illegal as texting or using the device without a handsfree solution.

Map apps and driving -- should they be illegal?[ Mon, 08 Apr 2013 17:10:50 EDT ]It's weird out there and getting weirder: A California court just ruled that screwing around with your phone's map app while driving ought to be as illegal as texting or using the device without a handsfree solution.

Watch where you point your head! Google Glass begs for new etiquette[ Mon, 08 Apr 2013 08:39:19 GMT ]It's reasonable that Google Glass — the futuristic headgear from the search engine giant — will be banned in places that ban cameras. It's also understandable that people will be uncomfortable around a gadget that can snap photos, chime in with messages and cause untold other social disruptions.So it's at least some small comfort that the first people to get the invention — the so-called "Glass Ex...

Pre-caffeine tech: Google Glass, Internet cats![ Mon, 08 Apr 2013 14:02:22 GMT ]Our pre-caffeine roundup is a collection of the hottest, strangest, and most amusing stories of the morning.Google's futuristic Glass headgear will be available before year's end ... and judging from our early look, Google Glass won't be welcome in lots of places.So it's at least some small comfort that the first people to get the invention — the so-called "Glass Explorers" — are already thinking ...

Ultradense dead star warps light of stellar companion[ Mon, 08 Apr 2013 15:17:56 GMT ]By Mike Wall LiveScienceNASA's planet-hunting Kepler space telescope has witnessed an ultradense dead star bending the light of its larger companion, marking one of the first times this phenomenon has been observed in a two-star system.Kepler detected a large drop in the brightness of a red dwarf star called KOI-256, leading astronomers to believe initially that a Jupiter-size exoplanet had crosse...

When DNA pioneer's Nobel Prize and mementos are sold, science profits[ Mon, 08 Apr 2013 15:35:03 GMT ]The descendants of Francis Crick, co-discoverer of DNA's double helix, are likely to receive a seven-figure sum from this week's sales of the late researcher's Nobel Prize and a handwritten letter describing the structure of the DNA molecule — but the geneticists who are carrying on Crick's legacy will win a dividend as well."We'll probably be giving more money to the Francis Crick Institute than ...

Microsoft is planning a 'special event' for next Xbox in May, reports say[ Mon, 08 Apr 2013 16:04:02 GMT ]After several months of complete and utter silence from the current generation video game console market leader, new hints have begun to surface about what Microsoft's successor to the Xbox 360 will look like and when it will arrive.Speaking on the latest "What the Tech?!" technology podcast, veteran tech blogger and Microsoft watcher Paul Thurrot said that the company is planning to reveal its ne...

Mozilla takes a fresh look at Google's WebP image format[ Mon, 08 Apr 2013 14:49:23 GMT ]The Firefox developer hasn't committed to support WebP, but it's investigating after large Web sites expressed interest. Also: Google upgrades WebP with new version 0.3.0 release. [Read more]

Successor to Nokia Lumia 920 reportedly in the works[ Mon, 08 Apr 2013 14:55:31 GMT ]The Lumia 928 will allegedly be slightly thinner than the 920, switch to an OLED screen, and add a xenon flash, according to The Verge. [Read more]

Wikileaks launches searchable archive of government records[ Mon, 08 Apr 2013 15:26:46 GMT ]The searchable database includes a new collection of diplomatic records from the 1970s and more recent State Department memos. [Read more]

Mozilla seeks to integrate payment system into Firefox OS[ Mon, 08 Apr 2013 15:46:02 GMT ]The organization is working on a common web API designed to make payments "easy and secure...yet still as flexible as the checkout button for merchants." [Read more]

NASA plans to kidnap an asteroid[ Mon, 08 Apr 2013 15:51:14 GMT ]The White House confirms the space agency is planning to snag a space rock and bring it closer to Earth for study. [Read more]

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.

Smartwatches: Failure, a new hope[ Mon, 08 Apr 2013 10:36:53 EDT ]In that never-ending search for "the next big thing in tech," talk has turned to wearable gadgets, especially in the form of a smartwatch that syncs with your smartphone.

North Korea website hacked[ Mon, 08 Apr 2013 10:36:28 EDT ]Kim Jong Un was dressed as a pig on North Korea's government website after it was hacked. CNN's Kyung Lah reports.

Smartwatches: A history of failure and a new hope[ Mon, 08 Apr 2013 10:36:04 EDT ]In that never-ending search for "the next big thing in tech," talk has turned to wearable gadgets, especially in the form of a smartwatch that syncs with your smartphone.

NASA chooses all-sky planet hunter, neutron star watcher for liftoff in 2017[ Sat, 06 Apr 2013 19:47:17 GMT ]NASA has selected two new space missions for launch in 2017: a satellite that can scan the entire sky for exoplanets and a space station experiment that can monitor cosmic X-ray emissions. The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) and the Neutron-star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) won out at the end of a selection process that took more than two years."With these missions we will le...

Guns and garden gnomes: 3-D printer revolution is now[ Sat, 06 Apr 2013 22:11:25 GMT ]Addressing a packed auditorium at Austin’s South by Southwest festival last March, Bre Pettis, keynote speaker and co-founder of MakerBot, one of the leaders in desktop 3-D printers, described the increased interest and affordability of his company’s product as heralding the “the next Industrial Revolution.”"Revolution" is often used even when the result doesn't match the definition — a complete ...

A new rocket rises: Orbital's Antares prepared for its first test launch[ Sun, 07 Apr 2013 00:45:41 GMT ]Orbital Sciences Corp. raised the first fully integrated Antares rocket on its Virginia launch pad on Saturday, setting the stage for its maiden flight to orbit later this month. A successful test launch would mark a giant leap toward using the Antares and Orbital's Cygnus cargo capsule to resupply the International Space Station.If the current schedule holds, Virginia-based Orbital would become t...

Hackers target Israeli government websites[ Sun, 07 Apr 2013 08:23:35 GMT ]JERUSALEM -- A weekend cyberattack campaign targeting Israeli government websites failed to cause serious disruption, officials said Sunday. The attacks followed warnings in the name of the hacking group Anonymous that it was launching a massive attack.Yitzhak Ben Yisrael, of the government's National Cyber Bureau, said hackers had mostly failed to shut down key sites. "So far it is as was ex...

iTunes is out of date and out of touch — so what's next?[ Sun, 07 Apr 2013 13:18:42 GMT ]I was at a Starbucks last weekend, and I grabbed one of those "Pick of the Week" cards, one for Jeremy Piven's new show. I felt a momentary flutter of excitement — sweet, free TV episode! In HD! But then I realized that I would have to download some huge file, and even then, I could only watch the show on the device I downloaded it to. The concept suddenly seemed awkward ... antiquated, even.And i...

Twitter, hate speech, and the costs of keeping quiet[ Sun, 07 Apr 2013 11:00:00 GMT ]commentary Purging mass media of hurtful opinions would deny everyone important knowledge. Simply put, says author Greg Lukianoff, it's far better to know that there are bigots among us than to pretend all is well. [Read more]

Facebook Home and the next stage of iPhone vs. Android[ Sun, 07 Apr 2013 11:00:00 GMT ]analysis Facebook Home signals a new era in the war between Android and iPhone, and right now Google has the advantage. [Read more]

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.