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Description The NBC joualist who covered - and took fire from - Donald Trump on the campaign trail offers an inside look at the most shocking presidential election in American history. Katy Tur was one of a select cadre of NBC reporters on the road during the grueling 2016 presidential campaign, reporting from small towns a...

Description It was never supposed to be this close. And of course she was supposed to win. How Hillary Clinton lost the 2016 election to Donald Trump is the tragic story of a sure thing gone off the rails. For every Comey revelation or hindsight acknowledgment about the electorate,...

Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that's taken over our lives.Enlarge ImageA wiing sell? Screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET Donald Trump hasn't quite become the rock star with milleials that he is with more disceing types.Neither has Hillary Clinton. Recent polling suggests that 37 percent of the young and restless have a strongly unfavorable opinion of the Democratic candidate. Then again, 50 percent feel the same strongly negative way about her Republican opponent.How can the Trump campaign address this troubling trend in the race to the bottom? On Friday, it offered a twin-pr...

This is part of our Road Trip 2016 summer series "Life, Disrupted," about how technology is helping with the global refugee crisis -- if at all.The main street in Mytilene, on the Greek island of Lesvos, wraps around the green-tinted Aegean like a horseshoe. Brightly painted buildings line the road while wooden sailboats bob near the pier. It's beautiful.It's also where I bump into Waleed, a young boy I'd met earlier that day at the gate of the Kara Tepe refugee camp just outside town.He was fishing with two other migrants.I ask where his mom is. He points back toward the camp. "Kara Tepe," he tells me.And his father?"Dad. Syria. Psh, Psh," he says, pointing a finger to his head while imitat...

This is part of our Road Trip 2016 summer series "Life, Disrupted," about how technology is helping with the global refugee crisis -- if at all. Most people think of Greece as a great place to escape from the stress of everyday life. But not to the more than 57,000 people now trapped there. In 2015, more than 1.1 million refugees and migrants fled war and chaos in the Middle East and Africa to seek shelter in Europe. More than two-thirds of them came through Greece on their way to places like Germany, Sweden and the UK. That changed in March, when an agreement between the EU and Turkey -- combined with nearby countries' decisions to close their borders to migrants -- transformed Greece f...

This is part of our Road Trip 2016 summer series "Life, Disrupted," about how technology is helping with the global refugee crisis -- if at all. The email was a shock. "Unfortunately, my application for residence permit has been rejected," wrote Safinaz Awad, a Syrian computer programmer who until that moment in early August represented a success story for asylum seekers in Sweden.Jonathan Persson of Stockholm startup Bigspin stands with employee Safinaz Awad. Sweden has deferred Awad's asylum application to Greece. Laura Hautala/CNET After traveling from Syria to Greece to Stockholm last year, Awad, who is...

More than 6,000 people fled war and slogged across a continent to get to a refugee camp in northe France. Now they endure political hostility in a place they don't want to be. Sudanese, Afghans, Chadians, Syrians, Iraqis, Iranians and others live in a Calais camp known as the Jungle, and another in Grande-Synthe about 25 miles east, because the camps are the closest jumping-off points to the UK, the country they want to be in. That's where many refugees, who often speak English, have family and friends. My colleague Rich Trenholm and I visited the camps in June to get a feel for how technology is -- or isn't -- helping refugees. Mobile phones provide a psychologically important link, bu...

In Calais, three refugee camps were designed with very different ideas in mind. They each have their own unique problems....

Most people think of Greece as a great place to escape from the stress of everyday life. But not to the more than 57,000 people now trapped there. In 2015, thousands of refugees and migrants fled war and chaos in Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq and headed to Europe seeking shelter. A year later, many are living in squalid camps and abandoned buildings in Greece, waiting for asylum or a chance at legal residence in the European Union. During a 10-day trip in June, we talked to officials, migrants and activists in Athens, Lesvos -- the Greek island where most refugees first set foot in Europe last year -- and Thessaloniki, near the closed border of Macedonia, shutting migrants' way out. Our m...

The refugee crisis in Europe is awash in tech, with migrants and grassroots activists both using phones and the inteet to share the latest news, as well as information on finding shelter, food and other resources.For this podcast, we discuss our special report out of Greece, where we reported on how technology both helped -- and hurt -- refugees there.The 3:59 gives you bite-size news and analysis about the top stories of the day, brought to you by CNET Executive Editor Roger Cheng, Senior Writer Ben Fox Rubin and Producer Bryan VanGelder.Check out the extended shows on YouTube. Hacking the refugee crisis in Europe (The 3:59 Ep. 89) Your browser ...

[embedded content] It's hard to top the greatest food convenience since sliced bread, but the Le Bread Xpress vending machine might be it. Dispensing warm baguettes from a machine, Le Bread Xpress wants to make sure hungry clients can grab their favorite French staple whenever their hearts desire. The loafs are partially cooked when they are loaded into the machine, then completely baked when ordered. Benoit Herve, the company's CEO and founder, said on the company's website that the idea came from his search for a baguette in the San Francisco area."I then discovered a French baker who has built a micro-bakery to deliver freshly baked baguettes...

Enlarge ImageApple's summer camps are aimed at 8- to 12-year-olds. Katie Collins/CNET Never before have I heard such a commotion in an Apple Store. And I've covered iPhone launches. The hoots and yelps of a dozen children echo around the historic brick and glass building in London's Covent Garden Piazza. This is day two of Apple Camp, and an important race is under way. Everyone is bunched around in the "theater," tucked away at the back of the second floor, so one kid is climbing a stone column for a better view. Others are crouched on the floor clutching iPads like their lives depend on it. Everyone, rega...

Robby Mook, Hillary Clinton's campaign manager, told Jake Tapper on CNN's "State of the Union" Sunday that experts say Russian hackers are behind the leaked emails from the Democratic National Convention released Friday disparaging Democratic primary candidate Beie Sanders. Screenshot of CNN's State of the Union" Hillary Clinton's campaign manager Sunday accused the Russians of releasing inteal emails to help Republican Donald Trump win the presidential election.On CNN's "State of the Union" Sunday moing Robby Mooks, who heads up Clinton's campaign, told Jake Tapper that "experts" have told the campaign that ...

Deezer, a French subscription-music service like Spotify or Apple Music, launched in the US Tuesday, bringing another contender to the world's biggest music market. Though popular in its native France, Deezer has struggled to widen its reach to the competitive US market. It tried a stealth entry into the US nearly two years ago, offering its service to people who have Sonos and Bose speakers and later to customers of AT&T's Cricket Wireless mobile provider. Last year, Deezer abandoned a plan to go public. The company said Tuesday that Deezer is available in the US on Apple, Android and Windows devices, as well as through its own website. Like Spotify and Apple Music, Deezer provides an a...

If you live in a landlocked city or state, you may never have been required to defend your al fresco lunch from a pack of hungry and determined seagulls. But it's enough of a problem in some areas of Australia, apparently, that technology has come to the rescue.Hungry Jack's, the company that franchises and oversees Burger King's presence in Australia, decided it was time to do something about bird burglars who were snatching french fries (chips, to Australians). In a video in which seagulls are dubbed "pincer-mouthed, chip-addicted feather reptiles," the company presents its solution: A fry container that scares gulls. "Printed on holographic paper, the glittering surface reflects...

Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that's taken over our lives.What do you see here? Screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET When the rumor spread that Donald Trump would choose Indiana Goveor Mike Pence as his presumptive veep, the wags came out on Twitter. Perhaps the most elegantly literary remark came from legendary sci-fi writer William Gibson, who crafted a satirical take on the Bard in response: "Trump Pence. Trumppence? 'I'd not warrant you a harlot's trumppence, thou foul gobshite.' --Shakespeare." On Friday after the official aouncement, also on Twitter, the campaign log...

Have you ever wanted to buy fish oil supplements with the simple push of a button? No? Well, Amazon's got you covered anyways.On Tuesday, the online retailer introduced more than 50 new Dash buttons, which are small, plastic widgets that people can click to purchase consumables like cat litter or Red Bull through Amazon. The company just a few months ago grew the number of available Dash buttons to over 100, providing such vital buttons as Trojan condoms and Slim Jims. With Tuesday's aouncement, the total is now above 150 buttons.But, with many major consumables, like detergent, drinks and toilet paper, already available, Amazon ended up offering a few buttons on Tuesday that seem a tad esot...

Gone is the campaign material on the "Vote Leave" website. All that is left is this baer. Screenshot/Vote Leave The successful "Leave" campaign in the UK's EU referendum debate has wiped its website of all vestiges of the material it used to make its pro-Brexit case.The full website has been replaced by a static baer thanking supporters for their hard work and votes, spotted Guardian reporter Alice Ross. An archived version of the site, which features all of the campaign material, can still be seen online. "On 23 June, it's safer to Vote Leave and take back control," the subhead on the website used to say. "W...

French creative JB painted each of these emoji-themed billiard balls by hand Jean-Baptiste Henri Franck Cyrille Marie Le Divelec You're probably already bracing yourself for the Giant animated emojis exploding onto iOS 10 devices this Fall, but before that happens check out this set of real life billiard balls painstakingly painted by hand to look like a everyone's favorite emoticon faces. "Poolmoji" is the work of Jean-Baptiste Henri Franck Cyrille Marie Le Divelec (JB for short), a French creative that recently moved to Shanghai to work at a marketing agency. When the office acquired a pool table, JB and a ...

Enlarge ImageApple Summer Camp participants also get cool shirts. Apple Apple has roped in charming programmable robot Sphero and the folks at coding course provider Tynker to build new coding and robotics sessions for its 2016 Summer Camp.Registration opened on Tuesday for the free camps, set to take place in the US, the UK, China and Canada in July. The tech titan has offered the program for several years now, ruing the camps in its stores using Apple-built hardware and software. The new coding and robotics camps will run alongside the two existing options in which children are invited to use iMovies and iB...