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The rise of clicky mechanical keyboards is a very unsubtle reminder the accessories we choose have a real impact on the people around us. If you're looking to go full incognito on your coworkers, Logitech just aounced two new mice at IFA that are basically the opposite of a mechanical keyboard. Logitech M220 Silent MouseEnlarge ImageThe new Logitech mice are so quiet they've eaed the Quiet Mark seal of approval from the UK Noise Abatement Society Logitech The company engineered the M220 Silent and the M330 Silent Plus to register the same clicking tactility but with over 90 percent noise reduction. Granted, t...

Uber has hired Target's chief marketing officer to help the ride-hailing company boost its global brand.Jeff Jones is jumping ship from Target to Uber. Target Jeff Jones will joining the San Francisco-based startup as president of ridesharing, making him responsible for Uber's operations, marketing and customer support globally, Uber CEO Travis Kalanick said in a company blog post Tuesday. Jones succeeds Ryan Graves, Uber's first employee and first CEO, who will remain with the company as its "resident entrepreneur." Jones' focus at Uber will be to "fuse" its marketing efforts with its global operations, Ka...

Operation Licoe ("Operation Unico") nuclear test, May 22, 1970. Getty Images Air pollution, climate change, population growth, massive rainforest loss: The effect humanity has had on the Earth is undeniable. And, in the last 60 or so years -- since the time just after World War II -- this change has accelerated. So much so that a group of scientists have recommended we officially enter the Anthropocene epoch, denoting a "new age of man." We'd be moving out of the 11,700-year Holocene epoch.After seven years of deliberation, the 35-person Working Group voted 30-to-three (two members abstained) to register the ...

Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that's taken over our lives.Enlarge ImageIs he a little bored with his iPhone? Tech.Science.Society/YouTube screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET I rather thought that tech CEOs all go around being nice to each other in public and only offering criticisms of other CEOs' companies through Masonic-like winks, nods and code words.I was moved, therefore, on Saturday night when I saw splendidly forthright Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff retweet this: "Crazy seeing Apple trying to catch Samsung. Battery life, waterproofing, blue color, front led light, &...

Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that's taken over our lives.Bad day in the bathroom. Getty Images It could happen to any of us. Our phones are so precious that if we dropped one down a public toilet, we'd climb in to get it back. Wouldn't we? What did you say? You'd call a Task Rabbit? This wasn't the choice of 20-year-old Cato Betsen Larsen. The Norwegian was in Drammen, southe Norway, when he participated in a drama.As Norway's VG News reports -- relying on the intrepid work of Drammens Tidende -- his friend's phone fell down a public toilet. Larsen, though, is svelte. He's ...

RoadshowNewsCar IndustryAmazon offers up car advice with Amazon VehiclesEnlarge ImageA screenshot of an Amazon Vehicles detail page. Amazon Amazon is gearing up its car knowledge.No, the e-commerce juggeaut still isn't selling cars -- not yet, anyway. Instead, the company on Thursday launched a new webpage called Amazon Vehicles that helps customers research new and classic cars.Amazon Vehicles could help solidify Amazon's place as the search engine for shopping. Bypassing Google's own Google Shopping search engine could train consumers to start thinking about a purchase at Amazon first, even in the rare case...

You might think of drones as friendly things, like the DJI Phantom you fly yourself or those Amazon drones that could soon be delivering your groceries.Think again when it comes to military drones. An MQ-9 Reaper unmaed aerial vehicle with a 66-foot wingspan can loiter 50,000 feet above the Earth for a day at a time, poised to hit a target with a devastating 3,800 pounds of Hellfire missile payload. But as with all weapons, the awesome firepower of a drone needs to be aimed accurately. "It's less about technology than about strategy, about the way it's deployed," said Gavin Hood, director of drone drama "Eye in the Sky," out now on DVD and Blu-ray. "Drones are new but still a weapon of warfa...

[embedded content] He'll be back -- but definitely not as you expected.Should we call him "The Aold" in this new "Celebrity Apprentice" trailer? Screenshot by Mike Sorrentino / NBC Aold Schwarzenegger, who was aounced last year as the new host of NBC's Celebrity Apprentice reality series, is getting assembled and ready to terminate -- er fire -- a batch of celebrity employees.In a teaser trailer posted to YouTube Friday, the actor gets assembled by robots down in a secret lab reminiscent of, but likely for legal reasons not at all, the Cyberdyne Systems corporatio...

If there's a zombie apocalypse, we want people like Evan Booth around. Because if an undead walker chomps off your hand, and you want to rebuild it from common household appliances, Booth's the man.Using only the parts from a Keurig K350 coffeemaker, plus adhesives and a 12-volt exteal power supply, Booth built a working hand he dubbed Hedberg. On the YouTube video, he notes he used only basic household tools and went into the project with no plans, "just a general idea of how things should be constructed."The project took him just under 200 hours, but he condensed the work into a five-minute video that travels from unopened Keuric box to a final, flexing hand that's rewarding its...

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RoadshowNewsElectric CarsNissan might be off-loading its battery-manufacturing outfit Close AutoComplete: Nissan reportedly looking to sell its battery operations Drag Outsourcing: Is there anything it can't solve? NurPhoto/Getty Images Vertical ...

Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that's taken over our lives.Enlarge ImageNow this is the way to honor a technological loss. Kim Kardashian/Instagram screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET What do you do when your phone dies? Do you hold a wake? Do you have a small funeral with your closest friends in attendance and bury the gadget somewhere in the garden? Or do you toss it in a drawer or in the trash? Is that really the right way to honor a companion who has served you loyally until the very moment it expired? This week, the whole world was in mouing after Kim Kardashian's Black...

Hackers for Hillary met in Las Vegas for a fund-raiser. David Becker/Getty Images Talk about a comment backfiring. Donald Trump continues to face fallout after saying he hopes Russian hackers find Hillary Clinton's "missing" emails. At a press conference in Florida last month, the Republican presidential nominee said he hopes Russia tracks down 30,000 personal emails that Clinton deleted during her tenure as secretary of state. Trump's campaign later said the candidate was being sarcastic.Trump's comments may have convinced some cybersecurity experts to rally behind Clinton.Around 60 security professionals at...

For its Typhoon H and Toado H920 camera drones, Yuneec builds a 7-inch touchscreen right into the ST16 Ground Station controller so you can see just what the camera sees. Its new SkyView FPV headset does the same, but it's strapped to your face to immerse you in the experience.The headset, which weighs in at 16.3 ounces (463 grams), coects to the ST16 via an HDMI cable. Inside is a 5-inch, 1,280x720-pixel resolution widescreen display that gives you a 75.5-degree field of view. It will work with any source with an HDMI output, too, so when you're not flying, you can use it to watch movies or for gaming, and you can wear it with eyeglasses as well. The SkyView FPV headset is available to orde...

[embedded content] Controversial filmmaker Oliver Stone's latest project, "Snowden," takes a closer look at the life of an American people either view as a traitor or a hero for being an NSA whistleblower -- Edward Snowden. In an unusual PSA called "Snowden - Oliver Stone 'Tu Off Your Phone" posted on YouTube Wednesday to promote the movie, the filmmaker reminds us that smartphones are a fun way to watch cute animal videos, but they can also be used to track our every move."The information you put out into the world voluntarily is enough to bu your life to the ground," Stone says in the dramatic video posted by Open Road Films. "This will be our ...

Sarah Tew Football season is just around the coer -- and streaming TV fans will be able to watch more live games than ever before.NFL Network and NFL RedZone will soon be hitting Sling TV, the Dish-owned service aounced Wednesday. That will give subscribers access to the football league's eponymous chael, as well as the "all the action inside the 20-yard line" mashup on RedZone during Sunday's games.Pricing of the chaels wasn't provided, but Sling assured fans that the chaels will go live in time for NFL's regular season, which begins September 8. Earlier this summer Sling TV made updated its service offerin...

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...