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Enlarge ImageThis image was taken about two hours prior to Juno's closest approach to Jupiter. NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS Jupiter's south pole was well documented by Cassini on its way to Satu, but the north pole (home of Jovian Santa, one could only assume) has remained much more mysterious. This is set to change with the arrival of Jupiter probe Juno, which completed its first flyby of the north pole on August 27 and has already started delivering.On that flyby, Juno got busy taking photos with its JunoCam instrument from a distance of just 4,200 kilometres (2,500 miles) above Jupiter's clouds as it travelle...

Welcome to IFA, the largest technology tradeshow in Europe. Held in Berlin, Germany, the show sees tech giants like Samsung, Sony, LG and many more come together to launch their latest gadgets.CNET attends the show every year to get first looks at all the new gear, but it's behind the scenes where the most interesting sights are often found.Click through to see what it's like to report from this big show. Let's block ads! بخوانید...

As part of our coverage of Star Trek's 50th aiversary, I talked with a dozen cast members from across the franchise about everything from Star Trek's inclusive message to how it feels to be a sex symbol to nerds. Jeri Ryan didn't want the role at first. The then up-and-comer was trying to kickstart her career after eaing a theater degree and wiing the Miss Illinois beauty pageant (she later competed in Miss America, coming in fourth place). "I wasn't remotely interested in science fiction," Ryan said of her pre-Star Trek days. Sure, she'd watched some episodes of the original series. But she'd also heard the shows had a history of stymieing some actor's careers. ...

Create a meal for a Time Lord with "Doctor Who: The Official Cookbook." Harper Design/Amazon Supreme Dalek Cake. Cyberman Pie. Cassandra Pizza. Ood Rolls.These are just a few of the yummy treats "Doctor Who" fans can make thanks to a new cookbook from the BBC and British food writer Joaa Farrow. "Doctor Who: The Official Cookbook," published by Harper Design, features 40 recipes for easy-to-make dishes, all with a Whovian twist. Re-create the Doctor's own favorite meal of fish fingers and custard, or try your hand at making an impressive gingerbread Tardis.There are also instructions on how to bake and decorat...

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...

Want a smarter Alexa, savvier Siri, brainier Google Now or a cleverer Cortana? So do Amazon, Apple, Alphabet and Microsoft -- and each is working to make its voice assistant your personal Einstein of choice. Amazon recently enhanced its efforts by nabbing an AI expert from eBay, The Wall Street Joual reported Friday. Hassan Sawaf is now Amazon's director of artificial intelligence, focusing on "the user experience for users of Amazon's search capability across all products and businesses," according to Sawaf's LinkedIn page. The Joual was one of the first to spot Sawaf's updated responsibilities on LinkedIn. "eBay has wide and deep capabilities in AI across the technology organization, and ...

Subscribe to the Apple Byte PodcastiTunes MP3 | RSS MP3 | FeedBuer MP3SoundCloud | Google Play | TuneIniTunes video | RSS video | FeedBuer videoYouTube | Livestream| Stitcher Extra Crunchy Podcast, Ep. 53 Your browser does not support the audio element. [embedded content]EXTRA CRUNCHY SHOW NOTES:See you on the 7th. Apple's InviteSamsung recalls Galaxy Note 7 over battery flawSpec Sheet Shows iPhone 7 Plus With 256GB Storage and Lightning EarPodsApple Headphones News:Apple Granted Product Certifications for 'AirPods', New iPhones and Apple Watch ModelsBragi teases 'big' aouncement happening next week in Cupertino, possible Apple d...

[embedded content] Some might say that sports mascots are already a parody of themselves, but no one can take the ridiculous and make it even fuier than Christopher Guest. The man who tackled the world of dog shows ("Best in Show") and folk singers ("A Mighty Wind"), among other mockumentaries, now takes on team spirit for Netflix in "Mascots."The first trailer for the movie shows Guest getting the old gang back together, that is, one of the fuiest and cleverest improv ensemble casts around. Like in "Best in Show," Guest takes you behind the scenes of a mascot competition, with gems like, "I went to the Fluffies five years ago. I got honorable me...

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 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...

Enlarge Image Microsoft The next-gen racing game Forza Horizon 3 went gone gold on Tuesday, and with the final game off to be pressed onto disc comes another surprise for rev heads: Halo's warthog, another Microsoft mainstay, will be making its way to the console-exclusive racing game.The space-age off roader got a bit of a facelift to fit in alongside the stuing (but far more traditional) vehicle roster that Forza is known for.To unlock the Warthog in game, you'll have needed to play either Halo 5 or Halo: The Master Chief Collection on Xbox One. You'll receive a download code via Xbox Live if you're eligible...

Beats co-founders Dr. Dre and Jimmy Iovine did not conspire to defraud their former partner at Monster, a judge finds. Beats by Dre A judge has dismissed the heart of a lawsuit against Apple's Beats Electronics that claimed that the high-end-headphone maker's co-founders conspired to sever the headphone line from Monster before Apple bought the company in 2014 for $3.2 billion.The summary judgment issued late Monday by Los Angeles Superior Court Judge William Fahey resolves the key charges that claimed Beats co-founders Dr. Dre and Jimmy Iovine duped former partner Noel Lee, founder of video and audio cable m...

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...

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...

This isn't about the first time I played World of Warcraft. Nor is it about the last time, or any of the half a dozen times I quit forever. It's about this feeling I get when I come back to the game, as I have done, and have resigned myself to do over and over again.I've been playing World of Warcraft -- Blizzard's all-powerful, all-conquering massively multiplayer online roleplaying game -- off and on for more than a decade. I could tell you exactly how much time I'd spent playing, but for my sanity I'd rather not know. But I remember so much about playing this game.I remember being stuck with terribly mismatched armour on my hunter because anything better refused to drop. I remember discov...

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 ...

Alphabet executive David Drummond has left Uber's board over conflict of interest conces. Alphabet The race to put autonomous vehicles on the road has apparently cost one Alphabet executive his seat on Uber's board of directors.David Drummond, Alphabet's senior vice president of corporate development, resigned from the ride-hailing startup's board several weeks ago amid rising conces over conflict of interests. Drummond, who had been on Uber's board since 2013, helped oversee Google's $250 million venture-capital investment in Uber that same year.Drummond confirmed his departure from Uber's board in an stateme...

An FTC suit against AT&T over its practices surrounding data throttling has been dismissed. Roberto Machado Noa, LightRocket via Getty Images A US appeals court on Monday dismissed the FTC's suit against AT&T that charged the company deceived its unlimited-data customers when it slowed their coection speeds. The Federal Trade Commission had accused the company of failing to deliver on its promise of "unlimited data," saying it violated the FTC Act. "The issue here is simple: 'unlimited' means unlimited," FTC Chairwoman Edith Ramirez said when the suit was filed in 2014. The practice of slowing down s...

Enlarge ImageTrendForce expects most PCs will come with SSDs, not hard drives, in 2018. TrendForce They've been a fixture of the computing industry for 60 years, but in 2018, hard drives will be pushed aside by storage systems using memory chips in PCs, an analyst firm predicts.Hard drives revolutionized computing when IBM commercialized the first, RAMAC, in 1956. They read and write ones and zeros as tiny patches of magnetic information on rotating platters. But they don't fit well in phones, thumb drives and camera memory cards, which use a type of memory chips called flash instead. PCs with hard drives rema...

[embedded content] If you like cowboy hats with your robots, you're probably excited about HBO's new "Westworld" series. HBO released a fresh trailer on Sunday, so brush off your Stetson and get ready for some mechanical people with shotguns and spurs. HBO released a teaser in June, but the new trailer takes a longer, deeper dive into the upcoming series.Michael Crichton, creator of "Jurassic Park," wrote and directed the original 1973 film version of "Westworld." The basic premise is all about what can go wrong in a Weste-themed amusement park populated by robots. Since this is on HBO, we can expect a grittier, more "Game of Thrones"-like vision...