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Artist's representation of a crumbling Dyson sphere. Danielle Futselaar/METI Inteational Another weird signal from the cosmos has scientists checking for E.T. attempting to make an interstellar call. So far, it's looking like nobody's home and something natural or some sort of human interference is the real source. But if intelligent aliens did indeed tu out to be behind this latest blip, their tech would be the stuff of far-fetched science fiction.The latest SETI (search for extraterrestrial intelligence) stir started when author Paul Gilster revealed he's seen documents from a presentation set for late Septe...

Enlarge ImageThe Ecobee3 Smart Thermostat and the Amazon Echo smart speaker. Ecobee Last year, Amazon established the $100 million dollar "Alexa Fund" for developers and manufacturers both large and small. The idea was fairly straightforward -- support people with good ideas on how to put the voice-recognition technology in the Amazon Echo smart speaker to good use. Now, the online mega-retailer is ponying up for its biggest investment yet and joining in on a$35 million-dollar funding round for the makers of the Ecobee smart thermostat. The funding round brings Amazon in with Thomvest and Relay Ventures, an...

Alexa, Amazon's virtual, voice-powered assistant, is a certified hit, and the list of gadgets she can control with spoken commands keeps on growing. Today, it's Ledvance (known until recently as Osram Sylvania) that's joining the mix, with new Alexa controls for Lightify smart LEDs. The controls are the same as you'll get with other Alexa-compatible smart lights, which include bulbs from Lifx and Philips Hue. Sync your Lightify lights up with Amazon in the Alexa app, and you'll be able to dim them or tu them on and off using commands like, "Alexa, dim the living room lights to 20 percent." ...

Cell phone radiation can be a danger to soldiers, but maybe not for the reason you'd expect.Gen. Robert B. Neller, the top officer in the US Marine Corps, says those phones can give away a soldier's position. It's just one of the ways that mode comforts have made troops weaker, in his opinion. Speaking at a panel Tuesday on the future of expeditionary warfare, Neller told the audience that the military is now going back to basics, teaching sailors to navigate by the stars and soldiers how to use camouflage. Those skills hadn't been needed because the enemy didn't have planes, satellites, jammers and the ability to see the electromagnetic radiation spectrum, Neller said. [em...

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RoadshowNewsCoupesBrabus brings sporty touches back to 2017 Smart FortwoEnlarge ImageIt's actually pretty sharp in this matte finish. Smart I'll be honest -- if you're looking to have a sporty car, a Smart Fortwo is probably not the place to start. It's a little cartoonish, and it's not particularly quick or engaging. Nevertheless, Mercedes tuner Brabus has once again lent its name to a sporty upgrade for Smart's offerings.The Brabus Sport Package is a $1,900 option for the 2017 Smart Fortwo coupe and convertible, no matter the transmission or trim level. It bulks up the car's appearance with new matte-gray w...

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RoadshowNewsHatchbacksToyota delays Prius Prime plug-in debut by an entire season Close AutoComplete: BMW gets the green light for 2017 diesel models Drag Enlarge ImageThe Prius Prime's styling isn't for everyone. Toyota Toyota's Prius Prime is t...

Enlarge ImageSamsung's Galaxy S7 Edge has topped all other Android smartphones in shipments. CNET Samsung has edged out its Android rivals with a clutch of best-selling smartphones. Over the first half of the year, Samsung's Galaxy S7 Edge was the most popular Android phone, according to a report released late Monday by Strategy Analytics. Samsung shipped an estimated 13.3 million units of the S7 Edge, which snagged a 2.3 percent cut of all Android phones shipped globally over the first six months of 2016. That's another sign of welcome change for the electronics giant. Until recently, Samsung had been suff...

Enlarge ImagePix focuses on making sure faces tu out great in photos by ensuring good lighting and by taking a series of pictures and eliminating the ones with blurry faces or when people's eyes are shut. Microsoft Your iPhone has a built-in camera app, but Microsoft hopes to lure you to a new alteative called Pix that's packed with computing smarts. Pix combines several advanced technologies: artificial intelligence, computational photography and video stabilization. But Pix isn't something like Photoshop with hundreds of options and abilities for you to consider. Instead, it's designed to improve your phot...

Back in the days of shrinkwrapped software, Microsoft would roll out giant new upgrades of its Office suite every few years, brimming with a laundry list of new (but not always improved) features. But now that we're in the era of cloud-based Office 365 -- productivity software as a service -- the updates are more frequent and more subtle.To that end, Microsoft is today unveiling a handful of small new updates for Word, Outlook, and PowerPoint. I was able to see most of these features in action during a closed-door demo from Microsoft last week.Researcher for Word: Researcher is a new feature that builds off of the existing "Tell Me" feature in Word. Using a side panel from the main document ...

Based in China's electronic hub of Shenzhen, Huawei has long aimed to be a global brand, and over the last few years has worked hard to shake off first impressions from its early budget phones.The company started off as a telecoms equipment provider, as well as a maker of Wi-Fi dongles, before entering the phone market with cheap handsets. But the last few years have seen Huawei impress with premium flagship devices like the dual-camera Huawei P9 and the Nexus 6P, which it collaborated with Google on.And it's found great success, toppling foes like Xiaomi and Lenovo to claim the number one position in China, as well as clinching the number three spot in global rankings, according to a report...

Enlarge ImageThe President of Turkey addresses citizens through an iPhone. Burak Kara, Getty Images If all else fails, grab a smartphone.When the Turkish military reportedly began shutting down inteet services like Facebook and Google during an alleged coup Friday, the country's president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, tried a different way to call for help. He held a phone in front of his face and, using Apple's FaceTime video-chat software, gave an interview to a local news station and implored citizens to fill the streets and support the democratically elected govement."I urge the Turkish people to convene at publ...

Enlarge ImageRinging Bells' Freedom 251 smartphone -- named so because it costs 251 rupees in India. That equates to roughly $3.70, £2.70 and AU$5. Manish Singh/CNET Ringing Bells has made a name for itself thanks to its $4 Freedom 251, but it tus out that selling smartphones for the price of a drink isn't totally sustainable.To help keep itself afloat, the company on Thursday aounced a new set of products, with any profits going right back into making more Freedom 251 units.Among the new devices are two smartphones, and they each cost much more than $4. There's the Elegance, priced at 3,999 rupees (roughly $...

Google might be working on Android Wear watches code-named Angelfish and Swordfish. James Martin/CNET Google may be working on two Android Wear watches with Google Assistant integration, according to a post from Android Police, citing an uamed source.Those devices might be Nexus-branded. One would be larger than the other, with features like GPS, heart rate, and LTE. The smaller watch would not include LTE or GPS. Android Police also gave details about the watches' potential appearances -- both would have circular displays. The larger watch, which is supposedly named Angelfish, would have a diameter of 43.5mm...

RoadshowNewsCar IndustryVolkswagen, LG team up to merge coected cars and smart homesLG already has its hands in so many different aspects of the inteet of things, it's giving Volkswagen a substantial advantage over automakers that lack this kind of partnership. David Ramos/Getty Images We've only just begun scraping the surface of coected cars. As more and more aspects of our daily lives become coected to the inteet, it's all but inevitable that they'll begin to blend together. That's what LG and Volkswagen intend to do with their new partnership.The two companies have agreed to work together on developing a ...

Enlarge Image Sarah Tew/CNET Xiaomi made much of its $40 billion-plus fortune by selling affordable midrange and budget smartphones, like the Redmi Note 3. Now, Hugo Barra, the company's vice president of inteational, says the brand is going premium."When you look at...the prices of our products, they have been going up," he said in Hong Kong at Xiaomi's Mi Home centre, according to the South China Moing Post. "Our customers are demanding premium products from us, so we are delivering higher quality with more premium components."Xiaomi's first smartphone, the Mi, was originally sold from 1,999 yuan (around $3...

Enlarge Image Ringing Bells Can a smartphone really cost the same as a cup of coffee? An Indian company is betting all its money on it.After raising eyebrows around the world earlier this year, Indian smartphone company Ringing Bells has aounced that it will begin shipping its suspiciously cheap Freedom 251 phone from June 30. The aouncement follows its earlier commitment of shipping the Freedom 251, a 4-inch entry level Android-powered smartphone priced at 251 rupees (roughly $3.70, £2.70, AU$5), by the end of June. Ringing Bells has over 200,000 units of Freedom 251 ready for shipment, said the company's fo...