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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...

Enlarge ImageSo many emoji, so little time. CNET Have you ever had that really important thing you needed to say, but just couldn't find the right emoji with which to say it?Emjoi 4.0 may finally offer an answer. It's the latest update for these popular little drawings, which is being plaed for release after a review later this year, and it promises to include new professions, flags and functionality to help us all communicate in that slightly more artistic way.Emoji of course feel like they've taken over the world. The tiny drawings, whose name comes from combining the Japanese terms for picture and character...

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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 US is one of 14 countries to get its own Olympic watch strap. Apple Apple has cooked up a new way for you to show your support your national team at the upcoming Olympic games in Rio by creating dedicated Apple Watch bands inspired by a selection of flags.But there's a catch -- they're only available in Brazil.Set to go on sale at the Apple Store at VillageMall in Barra da Tijuca in August for $49 (329BRL), the straps are designed to represent the flags of 14 major competitors in the games. Both the US and the UK get their own straps, as well as the Netherlands, South Africa, New Zealand, Mexico, Japan, J...

Serious vintage vibes on this custom MacBook series by Colorware ColorWare Colorware, the company with a history of tricking out popular electronics in custom colors and pattes, has gone back in time and brought back the design of the Apple IIe, at least in spirit. The company is offering a limited edition 12" Macbook with a custom skin that pays homage to the 1980s retro computer console. The basis for the Apple MacBook Retro is the high-end 2016 model Macbook tricked out with a 1.3GHz dual-core Intel Core m7 chip, 8GB of SDRAM, and 512GB of flash storage. But instead of the standard Silver, Space Gray, and ...