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Samsung has just taken the wraps off its new Gear S3 smartwatch.The Gear S3 is a large 46mm digital timepiece powered by Samsung's Tizen operating system. It will offer the same clickwheel-style bezel as 2015's Gear S2, a 30 percent larger battery and compatibility with Samsung Pay when it's released in three different models (including one with on-board LTE cellular) later this year. [embedded content] Follow along with the aouncements above, and check out our full hands-on first take and video.Read more:Samsung Gear S3 is a supersized smartwatch that brings Spotify and GPS to your wrist (hands-on) Samsung...

The Roku 4 is the company's current high-end streaming box. Sarah Tew/CNET Hoping for a Roku 5 to succeed the Roku 4? You may be disappointed by this report.According to ZatzNotFuy.com's correlation of an FCC leak against a Canadian computer sales website published Saturday, the streaming company could be debuting up to five streaming devices this fall that would add HDR picture capabilities and give each of the streamers a name instead of a number.The entry-level Roku 1 would be instead replaced by the Roku Express and Roku Express Plus, both the Roku 2 and Roku 3 would be replaced by the Roku Premiere and Ro...

What's under your bed? A few dust buies, maybe a sock, a rumpled Kleenex? How about a pearl that weighs 75 pounds (34 kg) and may be worth $100 million (£75 million, AU$131 million)? That's what a Filipino fisherman kept under his bed for a decade, reported The Guardian on Tuesday, citing local Palawan News. The unidentified man reportedly kept the giant object beneath his bed as a good-luck charm, touching it before he would go out fishing. But recently, he tued it over to his aunt, Aileen Cynthia Maggay-Amurao, who put the giant gem on display at the Puerto Princesa City Tourism office where she works. She's now asking for gemologists to help test the pearl's authenticity.[embedded content...

Enlarge Image Google 2016 was a big year for VR, and it's about to get bigger. Google will be launching its Daydream VR platform in a matter of weeks, Bloomberg reports. Alphabet, Google's parent company, is said to be investing big money on content for the platform. Much of this is going toward development of video games and apps, licensing sports leagues and shooting 360-degree videos, many of which include YouTube stars, according to the publication. Daydream is being built into the Android 7.0 Nougat operating system, which launched this week. It said back in May that Samsung, HTC, ZTE, Huawei, Xiaomi, Alc...

Enlarge ImageAshley Madison still boasts about its 47 million member base. Ashley Madison "Life is short. Have a dedicated risk management process in place to protect personal information."That's not a sexy tagline for a dating website that encouraged members to conduct extra-marital affairs. But it's one that Ashley Madison might be wishing it adopted after it was hacked last year. Now, the Canadian company behind Ashley Madison, Avid Life Media (ALM), has been the subject of a scathing report from the Privacy Commissioner of Canada and the Australian Privacy Commissioner, criticising ALM's actions following...

Close Uber to start using self-driving cars this month, says report Drag First reported by Bloomberg, Uber will be testing out self-driving cars in downtown Pittsburgh, Pesylvania. Uber riders will be assigned autonomous Volvos XC90 SUVs at random. Don't fear -- an Uber engineer will be present at the wheel along with a pass...

NASA Goddard Institute of Space Science Three independent agencies have confirmed July 2016 as the warmest month since they started keeping temperature records, the Weather Chael has reported. July is usually the warmest month globally, since the northe hemisphere has more land mass, and land heats up faster and retains more heat than the oceans.NASA's Goddard Institute of Space Studies found it topped the previous warmest July on its record, 2011, by 0.1 of a degree Celsius, 0.84 degrees Celsius above average, making it the warmest since 1880. The Japan Meteorological Agency's found that it was the warmest ...

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RoadshowNewsCar IndustryAverage US fuel economy rises once again in July...

RoadshowNewsDiesel CarsOh, not again: US reportedly finds new secret software in VW diesels Close AutoComplete: Nissan reportedly looking to sell its battery operations Drag I'm now operating under the assumption that this will never stop. I'll be retired in 2060 and they'll still be figuring things out. ...

Enlarge ImageThe Apple Watch went on sale in April 2015. James Martin/CNET There could be new Apple Watch hardware around the coer, if a well-coected industry analyst is proved correct. KGI Security's Ming-Chi Kuo, who last year correctly predicted Apple would launch the iPhone SE, says there are two new Apple Watches coming in the second half of 2016, MacRumours reports. One model will apparently be an incremental upgrade to the current Watch, with a better processor and improved waterproofing. A second model, to be called the Apple Watch 2, boasts those improvements plus more precise location tracki...

This grape rides a spider in Google's latest Doodle for its Fruit Games event. Google Grape is getting its game on for Google on Sunday.As part of the search giant's third day of the 2016 Doodle Fruit Games, the delicious berry is showing off its show jumping prowess in an interactive game added to the Google app on iOS and Android. The game can be accessed by tapping the doodle inside the app.The game features a grape riding on the back of his trusty steed Spider as the pair leap over hurdles. Google says the bite-sized treat and its eight-legged friend have been inseparable since they landed in the same cra...

It's pineapple vs. orange on the teis courts of Google.Pineapple serves the teis ball to Orange in Saturday's Google Doodle, available in the iOS and Android app. Google / Screenshot by Mike Sorrentino As part of the search giant's second day of the 2016 Doodle Fruit Games, a teis minigame where players control a pineapple's match against an orange has been added to the Google app on iOS and Android. The game can be accessed by tapping the doodle inside the app.A Google Doodle featuring the pineapple is also one of two that can be seen on the Google website Saturday, the other being a doodle celebrating Boliv...

Sony today released its monthly list of the best-selling PlayStation Store games for July 2016, and for the second month in a row, it was a bit of a weird one.Like in June, the PS4's top five in North America is not compromised of especially recent games. It wasn't a huge month for new releases, but it's still a surprising list: God of War III Remastered took the top spot, with The Last of Us Remastered, Minecraft, and Grand Theft Auto V also topping the charts. The only newer release in the top five was the No. 2 game, 7 Days to Die, which launched at the end of June.With even fewer releases on PS3 and Vita, it's a similar story on those platforms. LittleBigPlanet 3, The Last of Us, and Min...

A remastered version of the original StarCraft could be on the way, if a new report is accurate.The game is currently in development at Blizzard and will be revealed in September, according to Korean site iNews24 (as translated by Kotaku). Citing multiple sources, it said the game features updated graphics and an improved user interface, but maintains the original gameplay.It's unclear if that means no changes at all would be made to gameplay. We also don't know for sure if this would include both single-player and multiplayer or any content from the Brood War expansion.As for the September aouncement, this could indicate it will coincide with the conclusion of the StarCraft II World Champio...

Getty Images/EyeEm Apple may not have given up on TV programming after all.After pausing plans last year for a service that would stream live TV over the inteet, the company is now focusing on creating a digital TV guide that would work on Apple TV boxes, iPhones and iPads, according to a Recode report Thursday. Apple is in talks with TV programmers and other video companies about a service that would tell you what's on where and help you watch it, the site reported. The service would corral information on programs available on video apps such as those offered by HBO, Netflix and ESPN without having to lau...

Pokemon Go game on an iPhone. Jaap Arriens/Getty Images Maybe it was Pokemon Go.Apple CEO Tim Cook tweeted Wednesday that July was the best month in the App Store's history, setting records for both monthly billings and money paid to developers. In a subsequent tweet, Cook said developers have eaed more than $50 billion from the consumer electronics giant since the digital bazaar opened in 2008. Cook didn't explain why July was so good, but we're thinking Pokemon Go had something to do with it.The app, from Nintendo and Niantic, was downloaded m...

RoadshowNewsCar IndustryTesla posts $150 million Q2 loss, may miss 2016 delivery targetsTesla has posted Q2 2016 eaings and, while the word isn't resoundingly terrible, there's more bad news to be found than good. We'll start with the good, Tesla posting $1.56 billion in non-GAAP revenue for Q2. That's up from $1.2 billion in the same period last year. Total vehicle deliveries of 14,402 (9,764 Model S, 4,638 Model X) is also a big bump from this period last year, when Tesla shipped 11,507 vehicles. Tesla also says that average price of the Model S is up three percent. That's the good, here's the bad: Tesla posted a $150 million non-GAAP loss, which amounts to $1.06 per share. That's about do...

RoadshowNewsCar IndustryGoogle's monthly autonomy report: Mostly quiet on the weste front Close AutoComplete: BMW gets the green light for 2017 diesel models Drag Enlarge ImageMaybe folks keep hitting these cars because they get distracted trying to figure out what the hell it is. Goog...

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 report said.Walmart declined to comment. Representatives for Jet didn't immediately respond to a request for comment.For Walmart, the deal could help in bolstering its e-commerce business, which is s...