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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 ZatzNotFunny.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...

Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that's taken over our lives.Enlarge ImageThat's a lovely look. WLS-TV screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET I tend to find the silly in the apparently serious.Occasionally, though, the obviously silly comes along and I think: "Wait, might that be actually serious?"And so it was that on the pages of WLS-TV in Illinois, I espied a man with bottles and ca...

As the homogenization of social media continues, Twitter followed in Snapchat's wake by adding the ability to apply stickers with embedded hashtags. Now the business justification emerges: brands will be able to offer stickers with their own built-in hashtags so that you can promote for them and allow them to track your stickered tweets. The company's Promoted #Stickers initiative was announced in a blog post on Monday, with Pepsi as the exclusive partner, and ...

Enlarge ImageThe first stage of the Falcon 9 rocket successfully lands on the "Of Course I Still Love You" drone ship stationed about 370 miles east of Cape Canaveral. SpaceX A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket boosted a Japanese communications satellite into orbit early Sunday, lighting up the deep oveight sky as it climbed away from Cape Canaveral on a jet of fiery exhaust.While the rocket's second stage was boosting...

Snapchat ups its game with new city-specific stickers. Oscar Gutierrez/CNET While you sip your nitro coffee out of a mason jar in a tiny San Francisco coffee shop, you can now snap a selfie and add a "hipster" sticker designed just for the city. The photo- and video-sharing app Snapchat on Tuesday launched Geostickers, allowing users to send city-specific stickers along with their snaps to friends. The new feat...

Think those extreme eaters are daring, stuffing dozens of hot dogs down their gullets? There's a world of extreme makeup videos out there, and they can be just as fascinating.YouTube makeup channel host Mayra recently posted an 8-minute video in which she applies 100 -- that's right, 100 -- coats of liquid lipstick to her own lips. A counter in the coer tracks the applications. She uses 50 different colors, each one twice.[embedded content]After just four coats, she comments, "My lips right now,...

Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that's taken over our lives.What do you see here? Screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET When the rumor spread that Donald Trump would choose Indiana Goveor Mike Pence as his presumptive veep, the wags came out on Twitter. Perhaps the most elegantly literary remark came from legendary sci-fi writer William Gibson, who crafted a satirical take on the ...

Add one more premium cable service to Roku's continually growing list of apps. The Starz app, which launched in April, is now available on the company's media streamers, joining Apple TV (the new one, not the old) and Chromecast (via Android and iOS devices). The app gives you access to all of the content available from Starz as well as its sister networks, Starz Encore and Movieplex for a monthly subscription fee of $8.99. If you subscribe to Starz through your cable provider, however, you may...

[embedded content] SpaceX's quest for a reusable rocket has been through many challenges, culminating in a triumphant landing of the Falcon 9 on a barge in the Atlantic Ocean earlier this year. The first four tries resulted in explosions, a fate that a cute drone version of the Falcon 9 manages to avoid. YouTuber user ajw61185, who also created a Star Wars Imperial Speeder Bike drone, built the drone and a floating landing barge.The drone flies thank...

Twitter users already have emojis, hearts and hashtags, and soon they will be able to cover their photos with #stickers -- literally. Twitter will soon let users add stickers to their photos. Twitter The San Francisco-based social network said Monday that stickers will be joining the list of creative options for users to make their photos more interesting. Multiple stickers can be placed anywhere on a photo to de...

Roku Roku entered the Windows 10 era yesterday by releasing a new remote control app for laptops and tablets.The app, which is now available for free in the US from the Windows Store, gives users a new homepage design and the usual slate of features for the streaming set-top box. You'll be able to select channels, search for content, play music and show photos and use Cortana to make your selections. The company...

Enlarge Image 3M The humble roll of Sellotape is a staple in every kitchen's miscellaneous drawer, one of those everyday items we simply take for granted. When you stop to think about it, it's actually rather ingenious.It took a college dropout to think of it. Richard Gurley Drew, bo in Minnesota on June 22, 1899, took just one year of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Minnesota before dropping out.At t...

Slack's new Message Buttons allow users to execute third-party apps -- without leaving the workplace chat app. Slack Slack is trying to make it harder to leave its workplace chat app by bringing third-party apps right into your chats.Dubbed Message Buttons, Slack's new feature will allow users to interact with other apps without leaving the popular messaging tool that companies use to communicate and collaborate ...

Roku is making it easier for viewers to catch up on the news by adding it into its universal search feature.The search feature -- which is available on current Roku streaming boxes, the Streaming Stick and televisions that have the Roku platform built-in -- now allows for entering in a topic such as "Apple" or "NBA," and will retrieve a listing of videos pertaining to that topic from across many of streaming news channels on the platform. These include news broadcasts from the four major US netw...

United States Patent and Trademark Office No stranger to wacky patents, Google's latest idea is to put a layer of what is essentially glue on the front of cars to help protect pedestrians who may be struck by autonomous vehicles.The glue will act like flypaper, the Guardian reports -- if a pedestrian is hit by a vehicle, they will stick to the car and carried until it comes to a stop. This way "both the vehicle ...

Disney Research took part in creating a robot that can handle delicate tasks, like picking up eggs, threading needles and even playing the xylophone. Someday, robots like this could be used by doctors to operate on long-distance patients. We're also simultaneously fascinated and horrified by a selfie contraption made to promote the second season of Lifetime's "Unreal." The selfie stick includes two high-speed fans for that perfect windblown look, and bright lights to help you look your best. But...

Some you might be familiar with, some you might not, but no matter what folks are telling you, it's still possible to find a stick shift in nearly every segment. ...

Enlarge ImageThe flexible skin contains embedded OLEDs that can be used to monitor the wearer's health. University of Tokyo/Science Advances We're not quite at the level of watching entire TV shows in the palms of our hands, but blinky temporary tattoos may be a little closer. And not just for the sake of having blinky temporary tattoos (although that's a worthy goal in and of itself). A team of researchers belie...

The iPad Pro 9.7 isn't a tablet you'd want to take apart. iFixit You'll probably never choose to take apart your 9.7-inch iPad Pro, after leaing about the obstacles encountered by the folks at iFixit. Released this past weekend, the new $599 iPad Pro is similar in features to its 12.9-inch cousin except for the 9.7-inch screen size used in the regular iPad lineup. Sales of the larger $799 iPad Pro have been weak...

The dangers of riding a hoverboard have been well documented. They can not only cause physical harm to riders who fall due to sudden, jerky movements on the part of the self-balancing scooters, but the gadgets also been known to suddenly burst into flames. But there's a third danger that hasn't gotten a lot of attention: hoverboards operated under the influence of alcohol. Comedian Nathan Baatt, also known as video game legend Keith Apicary, decided to see how people would reac...