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See more stories from CNET Magazine. Michael Muller It starts innocently enough, with the same exact transaction you've performed a thousand times before. You walk up to an unassuming ATM kiosk, slip a plastic debit card into the slot, punch in a personal code and withdraw cash. Convenient, absolutely, but ATMs can host hidden dangers, especially for travelers already distracted by luggage, train schedules or he...

Enlarge ImageCanon's EOS 5D Mark IV introduces a new dual-pixel raw photo format. Canon Don't panic, Lightroom fans, Adobe Systems will support the new photo format Canon tucked into its hot new SLR, the EOS 5D Mark IV.Adobe's Lightroom, for editing and cataloging photos, has a particular emphasis on "raw" photo formats that offer more editing flexibility and image quality than ordinary JPEG but that are more of a...

The Intercept on Friday published documents stolen from the NSA by whistleblower Edward Snowden. Handout, Getty Images The latest documents from Edward Snowden, published by The Intercept on Friday, appear to support earlier reports that the National Security Administration's "secret" cyberweapons are anything but.The Intercept, whose reporters have access to files Snowden took from the agency in 2013, says a top...

Intel on Wednesday issued a recall of its Basis Peak fitness watch, urging owners to immediately discontinue use of the device out of conce overheating could cause bus.The company first shared its conces of overheating in June, pinning its hopes for a solution on a software update. That plan did not pan out as hoped, Intel said in a statement that urged customers to retu the devices immediately for a full refund. "We had hoped to update the software on your watch to address the problem," the com...

Screenshot by Lance Whitney/CNET "Hillary 2016" isn't just a campaign slogan. It's also a new iOS app designed for people who want to see Hillary Clinton as the next president.Launched on Sunday for the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch, the app is served up by the Hillary for America campaign. Hillary 2016 tests your knowledge about the pressing issues, offers daily challenges to help elect Clinton, shares news and i...

Firefox maker Mozilla is clamping down harder on Flash. Adobe Systems Firefox parent Mozilla is taking its battle against Adobe Flash a few steps further. In 2017, Firefox will require "click-to-activate approval" from you before you can trigger Flash-enabled videos and other Flash content on a website, Mozilla engineering manager Benjamin Smedberg said Wednesday in a blog post. This means the Flash content wil...

The Republican National Convention comes to Cleveland this week, but noticeably absent will be the support of several major tech companies, including HP, Apple and Motorola. The decisions were a big victory for online activists ColorOfChange and Credo Action, which used social media to push the companies to avoid backing Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee.We also discuss SoftBank's massive acquisition deal for ARM Holdings, as well as Kanye West's beef with Taylor Swift playing out...

Enlarge ImageTidal's latest update enables Chromecast support on the mobile app. Tidal Tidal refreshed its media streaming app today with an update that finally lets users send audio and video to a Google Chromecast dongle.In addition to software bug patches and improvements to the play queue, Tidal's latest version 1.14.0 for iOS and Android adds an integrated Cast option that pops up in the playback screen. You...

Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that's taken over our lives.His ire was inflated. HBO/YouTube screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET It was impassioned.But when you're defending a slur on the reputation of your hometown quarterback, your blood boils and the flaming words spill out. Other words beginning with "f" spill out too.At least if you're Ben Affleck.The actor, director and Bat...

Now you can control your Sonos speaker on an iOS device directly from the lock screen. The company just released a software update for its multiroom streaming speaker system that will allow customers to perform a wider range of iOS shortcuts, including quick navigation from the lock screen, Force Touch access ...

Sarah Tew/CNET Vizio TVs from the 2010-2011 model year will no longer support the Amazon Video app.That's the word from Amazon, which notified users of the affected televisions via email. The app will cease to work on August 15.Amazon is offering an olive branch, however: the same email offers affected users a $15 discount on the Amazon Fire TV Stick with voice remote. (We'd suggest you opt for a Roku Streaming ...

Plex Good news for Nvidia Shield owners: Not only can it run Plex's Android TV, but it will soon be able to run its Full Media Server, including support for hardware-accelerated video transcoding (H.264, MPEG2 and HEVC) with multiple simultaneous streams.For those who've never heard of Nvidia Shield it comes in three different versions: Android TV, Tablet K1, and Portable versions. All include a game controller...

Microsoft's Windows Hello log-in feature will so offer support for wearables. Microsoft Bill Gates famously said that making Windows users type Ctrl+Alt+Delete to log in was "a mistake". Now, if Microsoft gets its way, typing could be phased out for good with the company unveiling a new way of logging in from your wrist. Microsoft used its keynote presentation at Computex in Taiwan to talk up the new fea...

Enlarge ImageThe Raspberry Pi's low price is designed to get hobbyists thinking differently. Taylor Martin/CNET There may soon be another reason to love the uber-affordable and portable Raspberry Pi 3. An entry for Raspberry Pi 3, a $35, small and simple computer, appeared on Google's Android Open Source Project page, according to Android Police. It's part of the same directory that also includes other Android p...

Sand castles aren't exactly the most secure structures out there. Something as light as a pomeranian's paw can take them down like an earthquake, and a wave of a kid's Popsicle stick can send them crumbling.That's why a video from the Practical Engineering YouTube account posted Monday is so fascinating. In a little less than eight minutes, the narrator delivers a master class on how to reinforce simple soil by layering in stronger materials. Even a few layers of something as light as...

Enlarge ImageHomer gets to grips with technology. Fox As a great man once said, the answer to life's problems aren't at the bottom of a bottle, they're on TV! That man was Homer Simpson, and this weekend he appeared in the first ever live segment on "The Simpsons".In the episode "Simprovised", broadcast on Sunday 15 May, Homer spent 3 minutes fielding questions from fans, his animated character chatting in real t...

Mark Zuckerberg says there is "no evidence" that Facebook's Trending Topics feature suppressed stories from conservative news outlets but vows to take action if a Facebook investigation found otherwise."We take this report very seriously and are conducting a full investigation to ensure our teams upheld the integrity of this product," Facebook's CEO wrote in a Facebook post Thursday afteoon. "We have found no evidence that this report is true. If we find anything against our principles, you have...

Click on this image to be taken to the full infographic. RAD Campaign, Lincoln Park Strategies and craigconnects From Donald Trump GIFs to "Birdie Sanders" memes, your Facebook and Twitter feeds are no doubt full of opinions about the upcoming presidential election. But a new poll suggests, when it comes to politics, the social media environment is increasingly hostile. More than 50 percent of Americans have rec...

RoadshowCrossoversJunk in the trunk (supports): Nissan recalls 109,000 RoguesWhen your stays don't, er, stay, you've got trouble brewin'. Wayne Cunningham/Roadshow Pressurized vehicle components always have a chance of injury when they go wrong. On Mercedes-Benz's super-old 600 sedan, if its complicated hydraulic system sprung a leak, it had enough pressure to slice through human tissue. So you want to play it sa...

Adobe's customers will be watching for thoughtful analysis when you sound off on your pet peeves about "Game of Thrones." Aloysius Low/CNET All that time spent debating Apple's products, which video game console is the best and the merits of using Facebook may finally be worth something. Adobe, yes the Photoshop maker, said Tuesday it has agreed to acquire Livefyre, which it calls "a content curation and audience...