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Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that's taken over our lives.Enlarge ImageColin Kaepeick. Standing up for his principles? Stack/YouTube screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET As protests go, it was as silent as you could get.While the rest of his team stood for the national anthem during a preseason game on Friday night, quarterback Colin Kaepeick sat on the bench.When asked about it by NFL.com, Kaepeick explained: "I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color. To me, this is bigger than football and it would be ...

RoadshowNewsSUVsPorsche's first real utility vehicle dates back to the 1950sEnlarge ImageThis thing is positively awesome. Bonhams The story usually goes that Porsche built its first SUV, the Cayee, in order to keep the lights on while it continued to build sports cars. But Porsche's first utility vehicle was not, in fact, the Cayee. It was actually the Jagdwagen, which is not only a sweet name, but also a pretty beefy 4x4.As with other utility vehicles that came about in the mid-20th century, the Jagdwagen was built for military use. It was positioned as a spiritual brother to Volkswagen's Kübelwagen and the ...

Close Smuggled phones and a wall of silence: Reporting on Australian detention Drag Smuggled phones and a wall of silence: Reporting on Australian detentionThis is part of our Road Trip 2016 summer series "Life, Disrupted," about how technology is helping with the global refugee crisis -- if at all.I was in the kitchen at my ...

Enlarge ImageIf you're a business, you can only show so much of your Olympic pride. DANIEL SANNUM LAUTEN/AFP/Getty Images It's all fun and good until someone tweets the wrong thing.When the Olympics start Friday, social media is likely to light up with pride for sports, countries and various teams as they come together in Rio to compete for the next few weeks. But your local plumber will have to sit it out.Businesses have long been expected to keep their Olympic excitement to a minimum, as they can't use the famous five rings or other symbols and phrases from the games, since they're all trademarked. The conc...

Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that's taken over our lives.Enlarge ImageA nightmare past? MissTeenUSA/Twitter screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET You're likely still recovering from the excitement of Miss Teen USA.On Saturday night, 18-year-old Texan Karlie Hay beat four other white blonde girls to win the title.A darker shadow, though, was cast when screenshots of tweets apparently written by her emerged. These, from 2013 and 2014, contained several instances of the N-word and were posted on what appears to be her personal Twitter account, which is now set to private. Hay im...

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Enlarge ImageIf you owned a boombox, it may be somewhere in this room. Trademe For years, I had a boom box that was the envy of all my friends. It boasted not one, but two cassette tape players, so I could pop a recorded tape in one slot, a blank tape in the other, and crank out mix tapes like I was ruing a factory. Need a love tape so your boyfriend knows just what that Duran Duran song meant to the two of you? Want another copy of that Jane's Addiction tune you taped off the radio? Longing to send a medley of your favorite alt-rock hits to the cute guy you met at camp? Come on over, I think we can do busine...

RoadshowNewsCar IndustryPorsche's electric Mission E will be a job creatorIt's gorgeous and it creates jobs -- seriously, it should run for office. Porsche Maybe Porsche should run for President. When it comes time to build its all-new, electric sports car, Porsche plans to add a number of jobs within its ranks. Looking to work with the German automaker? Now's your chance, maybe.Porsche originally estimated that its Mission E project would add some 1,000 jobs. Now, it's upping that estimate to 1,400. It will also expand its number of available apprenticeships from 150 to 220, Reuters reports. Most of the jobs...

The NBA will live-stream the US national team's exhibition games on Facebook. James Martin/CNET No need to go to Brazil to watch USA basketball. It's on your phone.The NBA will live-stream the US national team's exhibition games on Facebook, the league said Thursday. A total of nine games played by the men's and women's basketball teams will be streamed on both the USA Basketball and NBA Facebook pages. The men's team includes stars Kyrie Irving of the NBA Champion Cleveland Cavaliers, as well as Kevin Durant and Draymond Green from the Golden State Warriors.The games will also be retransmitted on NBA TV. The...

RoadshowNewsSedans2017 Porsche Panamera: Here's what's coolThere's no getting around the fact that the old Panamera was a hippo of a thing. It wasn't pretty at all. In its many guises it was very fast, very efficient and very...Porsche, but to accuse it of beauty would be doing the word a disservice. Other than the look, very little needed improving, but Porsche has decided to make the whole thing better anyway. A quick chat with Dr. Geot Doellner, head of all things Panamera, revealed some things we knew, and a couple that we didn't.This one's a looker, that's for sure. Porsche It's all-newThe new Panamera ...

RoadshowNewsCar CulturePorsches, Porsches, Porsches and some other stuff: Our week on InstagramSome weeks, there's a good, overarching theme to bring together our plea to have you follow us on Instagram. If you haven't figured it out by this point, we've got a pretty solid theme going this week. If you actually haven't figured it out by this point, how are you clicking through to articles without reading the title? I'm actually impressed, if that's the case.Carfection's week was dominated by the 2017 Porsche 718 Cayman, a car that's ditched its flat-six engine in favor of something that sounds like a broken Subaru. Alex also checked out his local Formula E race, and Drew snagged some awesome...

RoadshowNewsCoupesPorsche recalls all the 918 Spyders out of an abundance of cautionSome automakers are content to recall small batches of vehicles based on a decently large issue. Others are willing to eat the negative PR involved with a full-line recall. Porsche falls into the latter category this time, as it's recalled every single one of its 918 Spyder hypercars for an issue with two screws.According to Porsche, the 918's own original parts catalog has a misprint, swapping two unique screws -- one for the seat belt mount, and one for the belt reel mount. They're one-time-use screws, so once they're in, they aren't meant to come back out. Porsche is conceed that this catalog error could r...

RoadshowNewsAuto TechUsage up, price down: Chevrolet slashes cost of 4G LTE dataEnlarge ImageUsage nearly doubled in a single quarter in 2015. Chevrolet Data isn't cheap, whether it's going to your phone, your games console or your car's embedded modem. Thankfully, one of those destinations is about to cut its data-plan pricing, which...isn't what normally happens. Now, if you opt for a 4G LTE data plan in your Chevrolet, there'll be a little more dough in your pocket.Most plans are now 50 percent cheaper, and there's a new, mid-range option as well. Opting for 1 gigabyte of in-car data each month used to cos...

Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that's taken over our lives.Enlarge ImageWalling himself off, instead of sharing? James Martin/CNET The words were uttered with fervor.Or the minimally raised voice that passes for fervor in Silicon Valley.There was Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg saying in April: "I hear fearful voices talking about building walls. If the world starts to tu inwards, then our community will just have to work harder to bring people together."He was clearly referring to wall-advocate Donald Trump. But, well now. Here's a tale from the Hawaiian island of Kauai, wher...

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...