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Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that's taken over our lives.Enlarge ImageHe's worried about what Pokemon go does to his mind. But what about playing in the NFL? 1130 WDFN The Fan/YouTube screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET For some, it's a joy.It's a way to get out into the world and even commune with thousands of your fellow humans.For the Detroit Lions guard Larry Warford, however, Pokemon Go has darker intentions.As the Detroit Free Press reports, he's stopped playing it because he's conceed about its true effects. "I was walking down Mill Avenue in Tempe, Ariz., pretty muc...

Enlarge Image Josh Miller/CNET Pokemon Go has been such a hit that it caused Nintendo's stock to double. On Friday, however, the company reminded investors that it didn't actually make the game -- causing stocks to drop by 18 percent on Monday."[Pokemon Go] is developed and distributed by Niantic," Nintendo said in a statement on Friday. "The Pokemon Company, which is an affiliated company of Nintendo, holds the ownership rights to Pokemon."It adds that Nintendo owns 32 percent of The Pokemon Company and, therefore, Pokemon Go's impact on Nintendo's business "is limited." This prompted Nintendo's stock to fa...

Based in China's electronic hub of Shenzhen, Huawei has long aimed to be a global brand, and over the last few years has worked hard to shake off first impressions from its early budget phones.The company started off as a telecoms equipment provider, as well as a maker of Wi-Fi dongles, before entering the phone market with cheap handsets. But the last few years have seen Huawei impress with premium flagship devices like the dual-camera Huawei P9 and the Nexus 6P, which it collaborated with Google on.And it's found great success, toppling foes like Xiaomi and Lenovo to claim the number one position in China, as well as clinching the number three spot in global rankings, according to a report...

Enlarge ImageOddly enough, the real-life red fox and the Eevee in Pokemon Go look like twins. USFWS With non-stop media coverage of the Pokemon Go mobile game, the folks at US Fish & Wildlife, or USFW, are hoping to get people excited about finding real-world animals, insects and plants that look a lot like their cute gaming counterparts. "Recently a number of digital wildlife called Pokemon have been spotted at many of our national wildlife refuges, fish hatcheries and wetlands, visible only through an appropriately configured smartphone," USFW posted on its blog Thursday. "In an effort to provide a fie...

The Galaxy Wide is designed for budget-conscious consumers. Samsung Samsung has cooked up a new smartphone, at least for South Korean consumers. The Galaxy Wide smartphone, unveiled Tuesday, is similar to Samsung's Galaxy On7 with such specs as a 5.5-inch, 1,280x720-pixel display, a 1.2GHz quad-core processor and a 13-megapixel rear camera. In many respects, the Galaxy Wide appears to be a rebranded version of Samsung's On7, according to blog site Sammobile. There are differences, though. The Galaxy Wide features 2 gigabytes of memory and 16GB of expandable storage, compared with On7's 1.5GB GB of RAM and 8...

Google has its eye on solving the world's medical problems. Chris Jackson, Getty Images Fresh off a stuing victory in a hard-to-master board game, Google's DeepMind AI project is bringing its brains to one of the most common medical procedures of all time: the humble eye scan.Using tech created by DeepMind, a British startup acquired by Google back in 2014, Google is partnering with the UK's state-run National Health Service. The mission: to create a system whereby sight-threatening conditions can be diagnosed from just a single scan of the eye, according to an aouncement by the company on Tuesday.In partners...

Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that's taken over our lives.Eagles QB Carson Wentz trains for his next visit to a gas-station restroom. Apparently he'll be bringing his own hand towel too -- always a good idea. Mitchell Leff/Getty Images Twitter is a place where you can post that you've been to the toilet, and thousands of people will tell you they like that. I can prove it. On Wednesday, newly drafted Philadelphia Eagles Quarterback Carson Wentz took to Twitter to make an important aouncement. "Just got locked in a bathroom at a NJ gas station," he wrote. "Praise the Lord fo...

Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that's taken over our lives.Enlarge ImageTake a deep breath now. Tyler Lizenby/CNET Did it take your breath away?All those bits of software and apps and, well, more apps.Wasn't Apple's WWDC 2016 a little like walking into Burberry's and all they have in the store are accessories. (Darling, that's where the profits are.)But this is the way of the world. Hardware moves forward slowly. Software can be more nimble. Which is why I was moved to extreme light-headedness by Apple's new Breathe app for the Apple Watch.Should you have been trying to preve...

[embedded content] Stanley Kubrick's 1968 sci-fi classic "2001: A Space Odyssey" is pretty trippy without any extra help, but a run through a neural network tus it into a brightly colored Picasso fever dream. Vimeo user Bhautik Joshi, who calls himself a "professional dork," used a deep neural network to recast "2001" in painter Pablo Picasso's avant-garde Cubist style.A neural network at its most basic is a computer system designed to work like the human brain. A neural network can be trained. In the case of this Picasso-meets-"2001" video, the system is trained to translate the images from the film through a Picasso-style filter, bending the original imagery into th...