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Less than two months before succumbing to cancer, ailing Apple co-founder Steve Jobs resigned from the office of CEO on August 24, 2011. Tim Cook (left), who had been the company's Chief Operating Officer since 2004, took over the top spot at the world's preeminent technology company. In the five years since his ascension to the CEO position, Cook has made a unique imprint on Apple, becoming a more vocal social activist than his legendary predecessor, and even directly taking on the US govement in a high-profile fight for digital privacy. In terms of Apple's products, however, Cook has largely taken a conservative approach, shepherding evolutionary changes to the existing product line (iPho...

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Enlarge ImageThe Intel Developer Forum takes place in San Francisco. Stephen Shankland/CNET One venerable computing technology, USB, could be about to help kill off an even older standard, the 3.5mm audio jack. The 3.5mm audio jack was popularized as the way to plug headphones into Sony's portable Walkman tape player and got a new lease on life as a way to handle audio on virtually every mobile phone and PC. But if Intel and its allies get their way, the new USB Type-C coector that's spread to some high-end PCs and phones will replace it in coming years. One big problem with removing the 3.5mm jack is that ...

RoadshowNewsAuto TechOLEDs out the wazoo: Cadillac teases Pebble Beach design conceptIf you want a sneak peek at the future of Cadillac's design, look no further than Pebble Beach this coming Thursday. The automaker will roll out a new design concept during Monterey Car Week, and if you like screens, you're going to love it. Don't like screens in your car? Well, uh, I got nothin' for you, then.Cadillac's teaser focuses on the concept's interior, which is loaded with curved OLED (organic light-emitting diode) screens, which were codeveloped with LG. From the brief glimpse of the screens in the teaser, I can tell you that it looks leaps and bounds ahead of Cadillac's current Cue infotainment s...

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screenshot by Lance Whitney/CNET Apple now has a new tactic to try to get you to open your wallet. Updated on Thursday, the Apple Store app will now recommend and help you shop for products that work with the Apple devices you already own. So if you purchase an iPad, the app may propose buying a Smart Cover to accompany it. Or if you pick up an iPhone, Apple may suggest a dock to sync and charge the device. For me, the app pointed to a case for my iPhone 6. You see your recommended products as you scroll down the app's Discover screen. The new feature was leaked in late July by Bloomberg. A feature tha...

President Barack Obama and presidential candidate Hillary Clinton on stage at the DNC. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Democrats lined up their heaviest hitters Wednesday as President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, VP candidate Tim Kaine and former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg took tus at the podium to support Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton and express disdain for Donald Trump, her Republican rival. If reaction on Twitter is any indication, they hit it out of the park. Twitter, Facebook and other social media networks have changed the way the public discusses politics, much the wa...

Vowing he's the only man who can do the job, Donald Trump accepted the Republican presidential nomination Thursday night. The "blue-collar billionaire" has used social media to propel his once-unfathomable campaign. But Trump's Twitter account, naturally, was radio silent during his more than hour-long speech to close out the Republican National Convention in Cleveland. In his address, he promised to lead America back to prosperity, eliminate political correctness and restore law and order. "Nobody knows the system better than me, which is why I alone can fix it," said Trump to a raucous crowd inside Quicken Loans Arena. "My message is that things have to change -- and they have to change ri...

The astronauts all carried Duro-brand felt-tip pens (pictured is Michael Collins' pen), and if not for these the mission would not have made it home. In the cramped environment, someone had broken off the switch to the circuit breaker that activated the ascent engine. This is where Aldrin had a flash of ingenuity."Since it was electrical, I decided not to put my finger in, or use anything that had metal on the end," he wrote in his 2016 memoir "No Dream is Too High." "I had a felt-tipped pen in the shoulder pocket of my suit that might do the job. After moving the countdown procedure up by a couple of hours in case it didn't work, I inserted the pen into the small opening where the circuit b...

Samsung Electronics expects its operating profit for the second quarter to beat expectations, as strong sales of its Galaxy S7 continue to resuscitate the company's mobile unit.The Korean Electronics giant expects to report an operating profit of 8.1 trillion won ($6.9 billion) for the three months ended June 30, a 17 percent increase from the year-ago period, according to guidance released Wednesday. The results would be the highest in two years and beat the average forecast of 7.8 trillion won that Thomson Reuters derived from a survey of analysts.Revenue is expected to 50 trillion won in the quarter, a 3 percent increase over the year-ago period. The guidance, released today ahead of ful...

Master & Dynamic made 1,962 pairs of these custom MH40 headphones for The Rolling Stones to celebrate the year it formed.Master & DynamicThe New York-based headphone house Master & Dynamic is no stranger to collaboration. In the past, the team's beautifully-crafted MH40 over-ears have been a canvas for designers like Proenza Schouler and Poggy, but today the brand is launching its most satisfying partnership to date: a pair of MH40s celebrating the 54-year career of The Rolling Stones. The limited edition headphones with the band's iconic lips logo on the ear cups are available today in two colors (gunmetal or matte black), but you'll have to prove your loyalty if you want to buy...

Enlarge ImageThis fully functioning Apple-1 was sold at auction by Christies in December 2014 for $356,000. TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP/Getty Images On this day in 1975, Steve "Woz" Wozniak tested the prototype of what would be come the Apple-1 computer. Here are 10 fascinating facts about that history-making machine.1. Woz constructed the very first Apple-1 computer prototype based on the $175 Motorola 6800 CPU. When a team of former Motorola engineers released the $25 MOS 6502 CPU, Woz adapted his system around the cheaper chip to make the Apple-1 more affordable.2. The processor ran at just 1.023 MHz. Its 4 KB of...

London's Silicon Roundabout. Getty Images Well, now what?The UK's decision to leave the European Union -- a movement called Brexit -- goes against the sentiment of leading technologists and economists, all of whom fear the potential effects at home and abroad. Nevertheless, the British tech industry and the foreign tech companies that operate in the country must now decide how to proceed, how to weather any potential storms and how to make the most of the new environment in which they'll have to operate.The referendum to exit the EU is unprecedented, making it impossible to make long-term predictions about th...

Enlarge ImageNeil deGrasse Tyson. YouTube/MinutePhysics Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson is incredibly active on Twitter, where he's argued against flat-Earthers and is behind a neverending series of humorous science tweets. Today, his Twitter feed is full of facts about rainbows. The messages are in honor of Sunday's shooting victims at the gay night club Pulse in Orlando, Florida.Tyson's first tweet on the topic reads, "The exact Rainbow any of us sees in the sky is entirely our own -- a personal, yet communal gift from the laws of optics." He goes on to talk about the angular size of rainbows, Isaac Newt...