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Here's our weekly bullet list of topics on today's long episode. Enjoy!Headline Deep Dive: We discuss MIT's DuoSkin tattoo technology, Audi's plan to coect its cars to street lights, and Intel's Project Alloy aouncement. Guest: We drag Producer Logan out of the control room to sit and chat a bit about the history of the show and where we're headed. Segment [Back It or Hack It]: Grow an organic chair made of grass with the help of Terra.Into It: Jeff raves about Kubo and the Two Strings, while Ashley loves the cute chaos of Overcooked on PS4. ...

Enlarge ImageArvind Krishna, a senior vice president at IBM Research Stephen Shankland/CNET Bitcoin has a bad rap as the preferred currency of drug dealers. But that isn't stopping IBM and some of the world's most conservative businesses from tapping into its technological underpiings. Specifically, Big Blue is interested in the blockchain -- the mechanism Bitcoin uses to publicly record transactions. Today's businesses each have their own records, slowing transactions and triggering problems figuring out who's right when there are disagreements. But the blockchain approach is more cooperative by providing ...

Sonos will share its vision of "the future of sound" at a media event on August 30 in New York. While no new hardware is expected, the event will likely outline additional functionality for the company's existing line of wireless audio products -- including the Play:5, which was introduced in 2015. In a March blogpost, CEO John MacFarlane said the company would be making some changes to its strategy which lead to job losses. "As we look to the future there are two big areas that we're leaning into: paid streaming services, and voice control," MacFarlane said at the time. Sonos In particular, MacFarlane ...

Hey, this is kind of a fuy-looking aco. Hmm, nobody's looking, what if I just grab it? Cool, mom didn't notice and that obnoxious grabby-paws Rocky didn't clue in. I'm off to the races!Hmm, it's kinda hard hauling it all the way up the tree trunk into the pantry, but now that I'm safe I can finally take a bite and...owww! It's a whaaa? A CAMERA? This isn't edible at all! I practically broke a front fang on that dang thing!Oh well, maybe I can rethink this. Could be a new career for me if I play this right. Steven Squirrelberg, I'll call myself. Here, I'll just peek my handsome nose into the frame. Ooh, and I just groomed my whiskers, let's put them on display. I'd like to thank th...

A hacker got away with roughly $72 million worth of bitcoin. Getty The hits continue for bitcoin owners.After Bitfinex revealed this week that a hacker made off with 119,756 bitcoin (about $72 million), the digital-currency exchange said Friday it is interested in a "socialized loss.""We are leaning towards a socialized loss scenario among bitcoin balances and active loans to BTCUSD positions," the company said in a blog post, noting that it has not made a final decision and that more details will be available Saturday. BTCUSD stands for Bitcoin/US dollar.In a socialized loss scenario, a company typically exp...

Snapchat ups its game with new city-specific stickers. Oscar Gutierrez/CNET While you sip your nitro coffee out of a mason jar in a tiny San Francisco coffee shop, you can now snap a selfie and add a "hipster" sticker designed just for the city. The photo- and video-sharing app Snapchat on Tuesday launched Geostickers, allowing users to send city-specific stickers along with their snaps to friends. The new feature follows the trend of using geocentric elements in messaging, like the geo-filters Snapchat already provides. The stickers will first be available in 10 major cities, including San Francisco, New Y...

The craziest thing about bitcoin is how commonplace it is.The digital currency, introduced in 2009 and now accepted by more than 100,000 merchants worldwide, can buy you just about anything, from a high-tech gadget, which you might expect, to an ice-cold beer, which you might not. We've rounded up 25 of the most surprising things that'll tempt your bitcoin wallet. Some are extraordinary, and some are extraordinarily ordinary. Let's block ads! بخوانید...

Enlarge ImageAllset's chatbot for Facebook Messenger lets your order food whenever you're hankering for a meal. Allset Since Facebook added bots to its popular Messenger app in April, there's almost a chatbot for every user whim and desire. Yahoo launched a suite of bots in July to deliver weather and news info, CNN's got one and now there's one that lets you order food.Dining app Allset launched a chatbot for Facebook Messenger, and it's available for San Francisco, Palo Alto and New York City users. Through the bot, you can order and pay for meals, and book a table (for a max party of six). The bot will als...

LeEco and Vizio have aounced that the TV brand would become a wholly owned subsidiary of the Chinese conglomerate, for a price of $2 billion.Along with Samsung, Vizio has been one of the two most-popular TV brands in the U.S. over the last few years. Vizio TVs are among CNET's most-recommended models.The news, rumored for the last couple of weeks, came from Vizio founder and CEO William Wang on stage at a joint press event in Hollywood. Vizio's hardware and software businesses will be owned and operated as a wholly owned subsidiary of LeEco, while the Vizio's data business, Inscape, will be spun off.Vizio founder William Wang on stage aouncing the aquisition. ...

It's time to put the "art" in Star Trek.To celebrate a half-century of the classic sci-fi series, which was first broadcast in September 1966, a range of artists were invited to pay tribute to the crew of the starship Enterprise in an exhibition called Star Trek 50 Artists 50 Years. Click through our slideshow below to see a selection of stuing images. Artists pay tribute to 50 years of Star Trek ...

Enlarge ImageProfessor Fasworth in all his wrinkly glory. Video screenshot by Amanda Kooser/CNET Any trailer that rates itself "Q" for "Questionable" is onto something. The faux rating screen for the "Fan-o-rama" trailer reads, "Audiences will no doubt question the creator's motives, self-respect, and sanity." You will definitely have some questions after viewing the video, the most likely being "What did I just see?" "Fan-o-rama" is a lovingly bizarre live-action interpretation of the sci-fi animated cult favorite TV series "Futurama." "Fan-o-rama" comes from the Cinema Relics team, which lists "food poiso...

Enlarge ImageAirtime is adding support for Twitch video gaming streams. Airtime/Twitch Airtime, a live-chat social network app backed by Facebook investor Sean Parker, added Twitch to the list of media that users can share and watch together in virtual rooms. The Airtime app combines aspects of a social network, texting and videoconferencing. Users create rooms and share them with specific friends, then post text messages, images, videos and music playlists. If somebody else is in the room at the same time you are, you can launch a video chat to talk to them face-to-face. Twitch, in its own interface, has a ...

Google is marking the 155th birthday of Nettie Stevens, who discovered the presence or absence of the Y chromosome, found in the sperm of males. Google Thanks to the research of Nettie Stevens, we know that males are responsible for determining the sex of their children.To highlight her contributions to our understanding of chromosomes, Google launched a doodle to mark her 155th birthday on Thursday. Nettie Stevens died of breast cancer at the age of 50. Wikipedia Bo in 1861, Stevens grew up in a post-Civil War America in whic...

Enlarge ImageHurrah! NASA's Juno satellite gets the Google Doodle treatment! Google To honor NASA's Juno spacecraft entering Jupiter's orbit, Google illustrated the successful mission with a animated doodle honoring the team who worked hard to get us our first color images of the gas giant. The Juno mission aims to take new measurements and photos with the nine instruments aboard the 3,500-pound satellite. Juno will spend 20 months making 37 trips around the planet. Even cooler, NASA is allowing the public to choose how the spacecraft's JunoCam takes color photos.Juno sent back its first photograph of Jupiter...

RoadshowNewsCoupesCelebrate Camaro -- and America -- with this look back at pony-car greatnessApple pie, baseball and the Chevrolet Camaro -- it doesn't get much more American than that. Over 50 years, the Camaro's established itself in American quintessence, and having been around for that long, it's been the star of many commercial spots and promotional videos. And now, Chevrolet's put all its greatest hits into one YouTube video.GM's media archives compiled footage spaing the Camaro's entire history, from its start in the 1967 model year all the way to today -- minus the span of time from 2002 to 2010, when the Camaro didn't actually exist. If you want a good video to watch in between fir...

YouTube YouTube A video pirate going by the YouTube useame Thuy Pham surreptitiously embedded a copy of the 1995 teen movie "Clueless" in a 360-degree video uploaded to YouTube this week. The video (now removed) starts by showing a slightly sped-up version of the film in a normal YouTube screen dimension, but clicking the 360-degree arrows rotates the plane to reveal a larger viewing environment, essentially a video within a video. Inteet sleuths on Twitter were able to identify the background source as this 360-degree music video for the South Korean pop group Bambino. The pirate took advantage of a loophol...

Johnson gives a speech after the results of the EU referendum at Westminster Tower on June 24, 2016. Mary Tuer/Getty Images A user on the poographic video streaming service Pohub uploaded a timely new video starring conservative British politician Boris Johnson.Before you assume Johnson is moonlighting as an adult video star, however, the video is more safe-for-work than you think. Entitled, "Dumb British Blonde F*cks 15 Million People at Once," the footage is simply Johnson's victory speech at Westminster Tower, following his successful Leave campaign that led the United Kingdom to withdraw from the European...

Enlarge ImageRide-hailing app Uber has 2 million users in London, home of the iconic black cab. Oli Scarff/Getty Images Uber first hit the road in London four years ago, and today said it has more than 2 million regular users in the British capital.To mark the birthday, uberPOOL rides -- which are shared with other passengers going in roughly the same direction -- within zones 1 and 2 will cost a flat rate of £4 for Wednesday only. Enter "LONDON4" into the app to get the discount. The offer is available until midnight. Although clearly popular with users, the ride-sharing app has been a source of huge controv...

Apple distributed the straps among employees taking part in Pride. Reddit user Sakusuhon Apple joined with revellers across the world this weekend to celebrate LGBT rights, with the company's employees and Chief Executive Tim Cook participating in the San Francisco Pride parade.The company distributed rainbow-patteed wristbands for the Apple Watch to employees who joined the celebrations, according to Reddit user Sakusuhon. Posting a picture of the band, Sakusuhon said they were "distributed as gifts for registration" and that he didn't know whether they would be made available to the public."This limited-edi...

Earth as seen from the moon in 1969. NASA The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency is looking to roboticised construction to help create habitats for humans on Mars and the moon. It will be working with construction company Kajima, which has already tested an autonomous construction system. The A4CSEL allows human operators to deliver instructions to the machinery equipped with GPS and accelerometers using tablet computers. It has already been used to construct dams in the Fukuoka and Oita prefectures.Kajima plans to develop new software that also allows the machines to communicate with each other, so as to avo...