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Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that's taken over our lives.Bad day in the bathroom. Getty Images It could happen to any of us. Our phones are so precious that if we dropped one down a public toilet, we'd climb in to get it back. Wouldn't we? What did you say? You'd call a Task Rabbit? This wasn't the choice of 20-year-old Cato Betsen Larsen. The Norwegian was in Drammen, southe Norway, when he participated in a drama.As Norway's VG News reports -- relying on the intrepid work of Drammens Tidende -- his friend's phone fell down a public toilet. Larsen, though, is svelte. He's ...

You might think of drones as friendly things, like the DJI Phantom you fly yourself or those Amazon drones that could soon be delivering your groceries.Think again when it comes to military drones. An MQ-9 Reaper unmaed aerial vehicle with a 66-foot wingspan can loiter 50,000 feet above the Earth for a day at a time, poised to hit a target with a devastating 3,800 pounds of Hellfire missile payload. But as with all weapons, the awesome firepower of a drone needs to be aimed accurately. "It's less about technology than about strategy, about the way it's deployed," said Gavin Hood, director of drone drama "Eye in the Sky," out now on DVD and Blu-ray. "Drones are new but still a weapon of warfa...

[embedded content] He'll be back -- but definitely not as you expected.Should we call him "The Aold" in this new "Celebrity Apprentice" trailer? Screenshot by Mike Sorrentino / NBC Aold Schwarzenegger, who was aounced last year as the new host of NBC's Celebrity Apprentice reality series, is getting assembled and ready to terminate -- er fire -- a batch of celebrity employees.In a teaser trailer posted to YouTube Friday, the actor gets assembled by robots down in a secret lab reminiscent of, but likely for legal reasons not at all, the Cyberdyne Systems corporatio...

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Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that's taken over our lives.Enlarge ImageNow this is the way to honor a technological loss. Kim Kardashian/Instagram screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET What do you do when your phone dies? Do you hold a wake? Do you have a small funeral with your closest friends in attendance and bury the gadget somewhere in the garden? Or do you toss it in a drawer or in the trash? Is that really the right way to honor a companion who has served you loyally until the very moment it expired? This week, the whole world was in mouing after Kim Kardashian's Black...

Hackers for Hillary met in Las Vegas for a fund-raiser. David Becker/Getty Images Talk about a comment backfiring. Donald Trump continues to face fallout after saying he hopes Russian hackers find Hillary Clinton's "missing" emails. At a press conference in Florida last month, the Republican presidential nominee said he hopes Russia tracks down 30,000 personal emails that Clinton deleted during her tenure as secretary of state. Trump's campaign later said the candidate was being sarcastic.Trump's comments may have convinced some cybersecurity experts to rally behind Clinton.Around 60 security professionals at...

For its Typhoon H and Toado H920 camera drones, Yuneec builds a 7-inch touchscreen right into the ST16 Ground Station controller so you can see just what the camera sees. Its new SkyView FPV headset does the same, but it's strapped to your face to immerse you in the experience.The headset, which weighs in at 16.3 ounces (463 grams), coects to the ST16 via an HDMI cable. Inside is a 5-inch, 1,280x720-pixel resolution widescreen display that gives you a 75.5-degree field of view. It will work with any source with an HDMI output, too, so when you're not flying, you can use it to watch movies or for gaming, and you can wear it with eyeglasses as well. The SkyView FPV headset is available to orde...

RoadshowNewsCar IndustryTesla posts $150 million Q2 loss, may miss 2016 delivery targetsTesla has posted Q2 2016 eaings and, while the word isn't resoundingly terrible, there's more bad news to be found than good. We'll start with the good, Tesla posting $1.56 billion in non-GAAP revenue for Q2. That's up from $1.2 billion in the same period last year. Total vehicle deliveries of 14,402 (9,764 Model S, 4,638 Model X) is also a big bump from this period last year, when Tesla shipped 11,507 vehicles. Tesla also says that average price of the Model S is up three percent. That's the good, here's the bad: Tesla posted a $150 million non-GAAP loss, which amounts to $1.06 per share. That's about do...

RoadshowNewsDiesel CarsBMW finally gets go-ahead to sell 2017 diesel modelsWhile diesels don't make up a large portion of BMW's sales, it must be a bummer for the small number of buyers that really do want a diesel Bimmer. Christof Stache/AFP/Getty Images When the EPA aounced that it would place extra scrutiny on approving new vehicles in the wake of Volkswagen's diesel debacle, it was assumed that there'd be a number of delays. After an incredibly lengthy review process, BMW finally got approval to sell its 2017 diesel vehicles in the US.The Environmental Protection Agency approved BMW's 2017 diesels for sal...

Alphabet is a step closer to getting its proposed drone delivery service off the ground.The Google parent company will be allowed to test its unmaed aerial vehicles in designated areas in the US, the White House said Tuesday. The test flights were aounced as part of a new initiative unveiled by the US National Science Foundation, which plans to spend $35 million over the next five years on unmaed flight research. "Data gathered will be shared with govement partners to help regulators answer critical safety and human factors questions for UAV cargo delivery operations," the White House said in a statement.The aouncement comes less than two months after the Federal Aviation Administration fina...

Virgin Galactic's VSS Unity, which is currently undergoing testing. Virgin Galactic Virgin Atlantic's rocket planes may soon be taking to the skies once more, as the would-be space tourism company is awarded an operator license for its SpaceShipTwo craft.The license, granted by the US Federal Aviation Administration's Office of Commercial Space Transportation, will pave the way for commercial flights, Virgin Galactic said in a statement. The company has also started taxi tests of new SpaceShipTwo craft VSS Unity, ahead of flight tests.The granting of this license is a step towards getting Virgin Atlantic's s...

Mozilla may finally have a reason for you to check out the Firefox browser for your iPhone. A new version, set for release Tuesday, cuts processor use by 40 percent and memory use by 30 percent, according to the nonprofit organization.The result is a more power-efficient mobile browser that may potentially help your phone run a full day without a recharge. The feature, one of many in the new update, could get people to take a second look at Firefox's mobile browser, an area where Mozilla has struggled. Firefox for iOS is based on Apple's core browser technology -- an approach that Apple requires and that helped contribute to the fact that Mozilla didn't release Firefox for iOS-powered device...

Back in the days of shrinkwrapped software, Microsoft would roll out giant new upgrades of its Office suite every few years, brimming with a laundry list of new (but not always improved) features. But now that we're in the era of cloud-based Office 365 -- productivity software as a service -- the updates are more frequent and more subtle.To that end, Microsoft is today unveiling a handful of small new updates for Word, Outlook, and PowerPoint. I was able to see most of these features in action during a closed-door demo from Microsoft last week.Researcher for Word: Researcher is a new feature that builds off of the existing "Tell Me" feature in Word. Using a side panel from the main document ...

Google Maps now contains "areas of interest" that are covered with an orange shade. Google Google on Monday unveiled a new version of Maps that has a cleaner look and incorporates smart areas of interest. The new look does away with elements that aren't absolutely required, like road outlines. This allows for more room to display useful information, such as traffic and transit lines. In addition, the typography has been improved to make street names, point of interest, transit stations and so on, more distinguishable from other items on the map. A new feature called "areas of interest," not to be confused w...

Director Guy Ritchie makes the kind of movies that take fans into dangerous alleyways as they follow the misadventures of everyone from small-time hustlers to Sherlock Holmes.This time the British director takes on the legend of King Arthur, giving the young man -- played by Charlie Huam -- a streetwise swagger and a mission to reclaim his royal birthright.In the new trailer released by Waer Bros. on July 23 at San Diego Comic-Con (our coverage here), Huam fights and gathers his mates for the epic action to come. And yes, he also grabs that famous sword out of the stone -- all with attitude. In addition to Huam, "King Arthur: Legend of the Sword" also stars Jude Law ("Sherlock Hol...

[embedded content] "What I do is not up to you." The first full-length trailer for "Wonder Woman" is here and it's glorious. With a lighter palette than "Batman v Superman" and some seriously badass moves from the titular character (played by Gal Gadot once again), "WW" already looks better than we could've hoped. (Of course, a lot of us felt that way last year after we saw the first "Suicide Squad" trailer and look how that's tued out.)The trailer leans extensively on the relationship between Wonder Woman and Steve Trevor (Chris Pine of "Star Trek Beyond"). And it seems that director Patty Jenkins is making liberal use of slow-motion captures to...

The US is one of 14 countries to get its own Olympic watch strap. Apple Apple has cooked up a new way for you to show your support your national team at the upcoming Olympic games in Rio by creating dedicated Apple Watch bands inspired by a selection of flags.But there's a catch -- they're only available in Brazil.Set to go on sale at the Apple Store at VillageMall in Barra da Tijuca in August for $49 (329BRL), the straps are designed to represent the flags of 14 major competitors in the games. Both the US and the UK get their own straps, as well as the Netherlands, South Africa, New Zealand, Mexico, Japan, J...

Enlarge ImagePokedates brings together players of Pokemon Go for long walks, Pokemon-catching and maybe more. Project Fixup It was inevitable: there's a dating site for Pokemon Go. New service PokeDates promises to match you with fellow players of the phenomenally popular game to "meet your Ash or Misty".Answer some questions about yourself and your Pokemon preferences, and the site will match you with a fellow player. You'll then be sent to a gym or pokestop to meet your potential PokeParamour. Whether you win your date's heart is up to you -- you'll just have to tu on the Charmander.The first PokeDate is fr...

We've mentioned brainwave-controlled drone programs before, but now, the same university responsible for the original project is expanding that brainwave control to multiple drones at once. So, get your drone swarm ready, because soon, you might be able to control an army of them with just your mind.Also in the news, Swagbot! No, this isn't a robot Justin Bieber (#swag); it's a four-wheeled bot designed to herd livestock. It's already working in Australian pastures, and soon, it'll be able to monitor the health of the animals it oversees. ...