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Musician Jack White's label Three Man Records recently launched a small craft into near-space with a special payload: a spiing vinyl album playing a remix of Carl Sagan's "A Glorious Dawn."We're also discussing Ripchair 3.0, a massive, tank-like machine that allows a disabled person to load in their wheelchair and head outdoors through rugged terrain and difficult weather conditions. Close ...

[embedded content] "The Simpsons" has never been shy about making fun of American politics. After all, several presidents have been Simpsons-fied on the long-ruing animated comedy series. Bill Clinton, famously, was always hitting on Marge. George Bush Sr. was a neighbor for a while.But as the 2016 race for the US presidency increasingly resembles a "Simpsons" episode, it was inevitable that the animated series take aim at both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump.In a short video clip called "3 a.m." -- posted on YouTube on July 30 by Animation on Fox -- we see Homer and Marge grappling with who to support in the upcoming election, as they watch a ...

"Double Dare" had a one-night-only revival on Facebook Live during San Diego Comic-Con 2016 with original host Marc Summers at the helm. Mike Sorrentino/CNET The aual geek-fest that was Comic-Con 2016 is now over, but the CraveCast crew is still digesting all the news and everything we leaed.Whether it's the improbable revival of the Nickelodeon classic "Double Dare," all things "Star Trek Beyond" or the latest Pokemon developments, there's plenty to rehash from the aual meeting of the United Nations of Nerds. We'll do it live on the next CraveCast at noon PT Tuesday. We'll also get an update from the major p...

Enlarge ImageMicrosoft will offer Xbox users the abilty to choose an avatar in a wheelchair. Mike Ybarra/Twitter/screenshot by Lance Whitney/CNET Microsoft is expanding the scope of its Xbox avatars by adding ones seated in wheelchairs.Xbox head Phil Spencer responded Sunday to a couple of tweeters who asked about the possibility of creating wheelchair user avatars. Spencer said the company had already looked at the idea and that it's not far off. Mike Ybarra, head of Windows and Xbox program management, gave everyone a peek Monday night, posting images of the new avatars -- one male and one female -- both s...

Enlarge Image Ou et al, MIT Media Lab Slowly but surely, researchers are stripping away the limitations of 3D printers. Until now, dense and finely-featured objects had been considered off-limits, simply because the computer-aided design (CAD) files required would be enormous and take hours to compute. But new software designed by researchers at MIT's Media Lab circumvents this problem.Called Cilllia, it uses sliders to allow the users to create surfaces covered in thousands of hairs with a resolution of 50 microns, about the width of a human hair. Unlike CAD, where each hair has to be drawn individually, th...

Eric Schmidt: Google will keep supporting gay rights. FAYEZ NURELDINE/AFP/Getty Images No matter which candidate gets your vote in the upcoming presidential election, the world's most valuable tech company will not be standing behind you.Google will not lend its support to either Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump, according to company's executive chairman Eric Schmidt. "We have not taken a position on the American election and nor do I expect us to," said the longtime Googler, speaking at Startup Grind in London on Wednesday.Google might be how much of the world gets its information about politics these days, b...

[embedded content] From photography to racing, drones are becoming increasingly useful as people explore the evolving technology. On Tuesday, Simone Giertz, a YouTube blogger known for making humorously dodgy robots, tried to take drones to their next logical frontier of glory: hair cuts.She paired up with computer Samy Kamkar to make the above video, which sees the duo attempt to give a maequin a stylish new 'do.As you'll see, this isn't something you'd want to try at home.Let's block ads! بخوانید...