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Microsoft will bring on Genee's co-founders to its team working on Outlook and Office 365. Jim Kerstetter/CNET Microsoft has bought Genee, a technology startup making bots to help set meetings and manage your calendar.The company didn't disclose terms of the takeover in its announcement Monday. Genee's virtual scheduling assistant is powered by natural language processing, artificial intelligence and chat bots. C...

Happy National Vinyl Record Day!You might assume millennials are the ones lining up on Record Store Day to drop coin on the latest special edition, 180-gram, splatter-paint record of the month, but you'd be wrong -- at least in the United Kingdom.According to a new study by market research company YouGov, UK music fans between the ages of 45 and 54 are actually more likely to hit record stores in search of vinyl. By contrast, the study found 18- to 24-year-olds are least likely to purchase vinyl...

Enlarge ImageDacor made this luxury range with a built-in tablet. Chris Monroe/CNET Samsung Electronics America will buy Dacor, a company that manufacturers luxury kitchen appliances, Samsung announced Wednesday. The acquisition reflects Samsung's continued investment in large home appliance and an interest in the high-end appliance market, where products like ranges and refrigerators carry price tags that reach ...

The Walt Disney Company is buying a big stake in Major League Baseball's ...

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. F...

Here are 10 incredibly high-performance racecars that you can buy directly from automakers. You won't find one on your dealer's lot, though -- you'll have to order it....

RoadshowNewsCar IndustrySamsung might buy up Fiat Chrysler's auto-parts companyYou'll probably recognize this label if you've been through an auto-parts store any time in the last, oh, forever or so. Magnetti Marelli Tech companies are eager to get themselves more involved with the auto industry, whether it's by creating its own automotive projects or by buying up other companies. Samsung appears to be making a m...

RoadshowNews10 production racecars you can buyPorsche 911 GT3 RS The Porsche 911 GT3 has been around since 1999 in an assortment of variations, winning championship and endurance races like the American Le Mans Series and the 24 Hours Nürburgring. The most recent iteration -- the 2016 Porsche 911 GT3 RS -- debuted at the Geneva Inteational Motor Show in 2015 and has even more impressive performance than the last version of the GT3. Equipped with what Porsche claims is the maximum amount of st...

At a Jet warehouse in New Jersey. Ben Fox Rubin/CNET Jet.com launched to plenty of fanfare and with a giant war chest just over a year ago. Now, there's already chatter that the online retailer is ready to sell itself.The company, a rare new competitor for Amazon, is in talks to be bought up by Walmart, according to a report Wednesday from The Wall Street Joual. Jet could could be worth as much as $3 billion, the...

Burritos, birth control, bitcoins: Clearly, only the most conventional ATMs stick to dispensing dollar bills.Here are some of the cool, offbeat things that can be had with the mere touch of a screen via the machine down the coer...or across the globe: Let's block ads! بخوانید...

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...

Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that's taken over our lives.Enlarge ImageThis is Kanye trying to make things happen. Twitter screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET Kanye West had clearly had enough.And when Kanye has had enough, he either mounts the stage at an awards show or he does what so many do -- mounts his high horse on Twitter.On Saturday moing, the great entertainer emitted ...

Disney Infinity, a video game that brought toys to life, seemed to have a healthy following -- but in May 2016, Disney announced the franchise would be discontinued. Disney has now released further information on the shutdown, including several dates players will have to keep in mind, as many in-game features are coming to an end.There are two currently active versions of the game, Infinity 2.0 and the newer Infinity 3.0. Both are getting shut down, but on different schedules. Starting July 29...

Anyone in the United States who purchased a GTX 970 may be eligible for a $30 payout from Nvidia, thanks to a proposed settlement in a class-action lawsuit.Last year, a series of lawsuits were filed against Nvidia and Nvidia card manufacturers over what amounts to false advertising. (The lawsuits were then consolidated into one in March 2015). The main issue raised in the lawsuit was that the GTX 970, advertised as having 4 GB of VRAM, in fact does not--at least not exactly.Within a few months o...

Enlarge ImageOracle paid $9.3 billion to acquire NetSuite, the first cloud-computing software company. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Oracle Corp. today announced the purchase of NetSuite Inc., a provider of cloud-computing software, for $9.3 billion. The offer price is valued at $109 per share in cash.Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison owns the largest stake in NetSuite with almost 40% of the company's shares, accord...

It's not Verizon gobbling up Yahoo, but by the standards of the TV market, an acquisition of Vizio by LeEco could be big.A series of reports, the latest by India's The Economic Times, points to either an acquisition or investment by the Chinese conglomerate LeEco in Irvine, Califoia-based Vizio, which along with Samsung 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.Neither Vizio nor LeEco responded immediate...

[embedded content] They had me at Rocket-ing. Saturday night during the Marvel panel at Comic-Con, Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige had some epic (also: amazing, exciting, squeal-inducing) announcements, including the big one that Disney's Califoia Adventure is headed for space. During the panel, it was announced that Guardians of the Galaxy -- Mission: Breakout will be coming to the theme park in 2017, presumably around the same time as the movi...

Got Pokefever? Who could blame you. The two-week old game, which launched July 6, has inspired love, exercise, exteal battery packs and, unfortunately, has led to real-world harm. Now it looks like it's inspiring the revival of physical Pokemon trading cards. Die-hards can kick it old school with the ultimate bragging right, a 1998 mint-condition Pikachu trading card from Nintendo's original Pokemon video game that sells on eBay for a cool $100,000.Its seller, smpratte, declares it "the most val...

Can you Yahoo me now?Enlarge ImageThe Yahoo logo might have a familiar red swoosh before too long. Justin Sullivan, Getty Images After months of speculation, it appears Verizon will be the owner of Yahoo, according to a series of reports, first in Bloomberg News, then confirmed by The Wall Street Joual and The New York Times. The deal, which may be announced "in the coming days," Bloomberg says, marks the end ...

Sarah Tew/CNET Walking into a crowded retail store showroom, the shelves lined with laptops, can be a daunting experience. Even in the relatively well-curated world of the Apple Store, that company now has five distinct laptop models (Air and Pro systems in two sizes each, plus the 12-inch MacBook). Sometimes you just want to know what the best current laptops are, or at least the ones I'm most likely to recomm...