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Apple is expanding the capacity of its iCloud Drive storage service. CNET Apple has doubled the maximum amount of data users can store on iCloud Drive, now offering 2 terabytes to customers of its online storage service.Apple's new storage capacity will run customers $19.99 per month, twice the $9.99 monthly cost of its previous 1TB storage max. Consumers still have the option of getting 5GBs of storage for free. The company also offers a 50GB plan for 99 cents per month, and a 200GB option for $3.99.The higher capacity is expected to benefit those with large iCloud Photo Libraries and for the new macOS Sierra...

Close Let's build: Lego City airport, featuring an 18-inch Lego plane Drag It's the end of the working week, so grab a coffee and let's get stuck in to some plastic bricks, shall we? In the video above, I'm assembling one of the newest Lego City sets, the Airport Passenger Terminal, while below you'll get a blow-by-blow accou...

This robot spends its time in the sewer looking for problems with pipes. KC Water Services Urban legends tell of all kinds of creatures in city sewers -- giant rats, alligators, even talking, anthropomorphic turtles.What's living in the sewers in Kansas City, Missouri, sounds equally fantastic, though it's totally real. Kansas City's Water Services has a fleet of robots in its sewer system.The robots, which are equipped with cameras, are tasked with mapping the entire system. They're looking for problems with the infrastructure like cracks in pipes that could cause leaks above ground. And the city has reason ...

RoadshowNewsCar IndustryTesla and SolarCity confirm merger in $2.6BN stock deal Close Tesla Gigafactory Tour Drag Tesla and SolarCity have confirmed a $2.6 billion all-stock deal that will see the electric automaker and solar panel manufacturer merge. The merger, which Tesla CEO Elon Musk recently called a "no-brainer," had left...

Enlarge Image Fujifilm Joining its kin in Tokyo, Barcelona, Bogata, Manila, Shanghai and Singapore, Fujifilm's Wonder Photo Shop gets its US debut this Friday, July 22, in New York City at 176th Fifth Avenue. As with many manufacturers, the company's brick-and-mortar stores will show off the company's imaging product lines -- these include the Instax print digital cameras and various enthusiast-targeted camera models -- plus host related classes, lectures and exhibitions.Given the location, though, I suspect it will mostly attract tourists seeking to escape the current steamy and stormy New York weather.Let's...

Getty Images/EyeEm A new 50-turbine wind farm in Norway has yet to be constructed, but Google has already bought up its entire 12-year supply of energy. The farm, due to be completed in 2017, will be used to power Google's European data centres, Reuters reports. The search giant has also bought the entire power output of a second wind farm in Sweden, which is due to be built in 2018. The two power plants will supply 236 megawatts in total."[The additional wind farms] take us one step closer to ruing 100 percent of our operations on clean energy," said Marc Oman, EU energy lead of Google global infrastructure...

The high-capacity, high-speed miniSD cards from Weste Digital. Weste Digital If you're in the market for high-capacity and superfast miniSD cards, Weste Digital has something to offer. The company aounced today two new 256GB miniSD cards, the SanDisk Extreme microSDXC UHS-I and the SanDisk UltramicroSDXC UHS-I Premium Edition. According to Weste Digital, the SanDisk Extreme card (MSRP $199.99) is for pro users and has a read speed of up to 100MB/s and a write speed of up to 90MB/s. This means you can transfer its entire 256GB of storage, which is enough to store some 14 hours of 4K content, in less than 50 ...

Solar Impulse, the sun-powered plane, has completed the Atlantic stage of its historic circumnavigation.The aircraft landed in Seville, Spain on Thursday moing, having set off on its jouey across the Atlantic ocean from New York three days ago. Spain is the penultimate stop on the vehicle's epic quest to travel around the globe without buing any fuel. The plane weighs 5,500 pounds, travels about 47 miles per hour and is powered by 17,248 solar cells built into the wings. The jouey has been a long one. Starting in March last year, battery woes prompted a nine-month layover in Hawaii. We've contacted the Solar Impulse team to ask when the next stage of the jouey...

RoadshowNewsCar IndustryThirty Helens agree: Smart-city technology can change our lives for the betterAnything to save us from clusterf$%&s like this will be welcome. USDOT The US Department of Transportation's Smart City Challenge is almost over, as a wier is to be revealed in the very near future. But it's not really over. In fact, it's started a great conversation about using data and technology to fix some of our infrastructure issues in cities across the country, not just ones participating in the challenge. And a new study suggests that Americans are ready as hell for this to happen.Mobileye, a manu...

RoadshowNewsCar IndustryTesla adds solar to its portfolio through SolarCity acquisitionTesla Motors aounced its intention to acquire solar panel installer SolarCity today, in what Tesla CEO Elon Musk described as a "no-brainer" deal. If the acquisition goes through, Tesla would add solar panel installation services to its current business lines selling electric cars and battery storage devices.It might seem like a "no-brainer" to Musk, but his investors must be wonder where the brains are. In after-hours trading on Tuesday, stockholders pushed the stock down more than 13 percent to $190, a loss of $29.61 since the aouncement.Tesla currently sells the Model S and Model X electric cars, and re...

See ya, New York, I'm off to Spain Solar Impulse The Solar Impulse 2 soared back into the the air early this moing on the last oceanic hurdle of its global flight, the Atlantic. The pokey but tough solar-powered plane took off from New York's John F. Keedy Inteational Airport at 2:30 a.m. local time and headed toward Seville, Spain, on a trip that should last four days.Six hours later, Captain Bertrand Piccard guided the plane over Nantucket Island, his last sighting of North America. Not long before that, a tweet showed Piccard having his first breakfast on the Atlantic leg.The goal of the Solar Impulse 2, w...

Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that's taken over our lives.Enlarge ImageTim Cook. Leading Apple in a complex world. Screenshot by Antonio Ruiz-Camacho/CNET Apple's different these days.But is today's different better than yesterday's? There's a certain feeling that, as the company releases more products and more software, there are more problems. The Apple Watch may (or may not) be a success, but how can you get excited about a product that moves some people because it makes them feel more polite?Then there's Apple Music, which befuddles many and enthralls precious few.Is it ...