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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. Maria Booth and I sit at a table at Mälarpaviljongen, a gay-friendly bar and cafe in Stockholm. It's a sunny, breezy day on the Baltic waterway that surrounds the city. The cafe's floating patio bobs gently in Riddarfjärden Bay. We're talking about Facebook. She's worried about a change taking place in her country that she saw first on the worl...

Sorry, Maine. You sounded like a really nice place to visit, what with your beaches, B&Bs, lighthouses and lobsters. We could even overlook the fact that your native son, Stephen King, seems to be determined to convince everyone in the world you're full of killer clowns, possessed cars, rabid St. Beards and spooky fog that tus people inside-out. (Well, maybe that last one was "The Simpsons.") But there's no way to overlook the 10-foot-long (3-meter) snakeskin that police in Westbrook, ...

Google is sunsetting Chrome Apps for non-Chrome operating systems. Sarah Tew/CNET Google has touted its Chrome browser as all you need for desktop computing on any operating system. But the search giant said in a blog post Friday that it will gradually be phasing out the browser's apps for Windows, Mac and Linux machines. The apps range from photo-editing program Pixlr Touch Up to games like a now-discontinue...

Enlarge ImageParents can keep an eye on their child's workload. Google Sigh. Yes, the break is over and school awaits. But with a little luck you might be able to ditch class and go to the moon instead. With the new school year upon us, Google has souped up its Expeditions and Classroom apps for teachers and students. The Expeditions app, which lets students take virtual-reality field trips with the help of ...

IFTTT (short for "if this, then that") is a free online service -- with it, you can craft automation recipes that link services and gadgets that don't work together otherwise. Now, you can expect to start seeing those recipes built right into the apps you normally use to control those gadgets. For instance, if you whip up a recipe that tus your Lifx smart bulbs on whenever a motion detector sees you, you'll see that recipe appear in the Lifx app, complete with the option to tu it on and o...

A hacker got away with roughly $72 million worth of bitcoin. Getty The hits continue for bitcoin owners.After Bitfinex revealed this week that a hacker made off with 119,756 bitcoin (about $72 million), the digital-currency exchange said Friday it is interested in a "socialized loss.""We are leaning towards a socialized loss scenario among bitcoin balances and active loans to BTCUSD positions," the company said i...

Sling Blake Krikorian, the co-founder of Sling Media and a longtime fixture in Silicon Valley, died Wednesday at age 48.His brother, Jason confirmed Krikorian's sudden passing on Facebook. According to Recode's Kara Swisher, he was "apparently struck by a heart attack while surfing in the San Francisco area." Krikorian had recently served as the corporate vice president for Microsoft's Interactive Entertainment ...

Your eyes will be the keys to unlock financial information and other private data on the Galaxy Note 7. Josh Miller/CNET Samsung will tap into iris scanning to help you launch financial apps on the Galaxy Note 7.At its Unpacked event on Tuesday, Samsung announced that the new Galaxy Note 7 would be its first mobile device to offer iris recognition as a way to unlock the device. But the company also revealed that ...

Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that's taken over our lives. Why do bars exist? To make you feel a little better about the vicissitudes of existence. To make you commune with your fellow human and share life experiences. Why do phones exist? To make sure you post whatever you're doing to Facebook. To keep you from communing with your fellow human and sharing life experiences in real life.Enlarge ImageIt looks like a lovely place. ...

When Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton announced that Sen. Tim Kaine would be her running mate, the inteet went wild with witty memes. Now it seem Kaine is trending again on Twitter as old photos of him surface online. Plus the young Kaine could double as Superman, which could come in handy. Not only are his new fans smitten with his dashing good looks, some are even giving the VP candidate hipster status just b...

Four years ago, Facebook and Twitter shared the same small space on Radio Row at the Republican and Democratic national conventions. Both social networks were growing, but not quite mainstream.Not anymore. Social networks -- including Snapchat, Instagram, Medium, and YouTube -- have a ubiquitous presence that rivals traditional media this week at the RNC in Cleveland.Social media giant Facebook built a two-story structure dubbed "Facebook Central," outside of the Quicken Loans Arena, site of the...

[embedded content] Fresh off being named 2015's highest paid actor in Hollywood by Forbes last week, The Rock launched his own YouTube channel on Monday and he's called in a few ringers to show him the ropes.Chief among them is vlogger and comedian Lilly Singh, who gives Johnson the guided tour of YouTube's secret volcano lair recording studio. The online venture comes from a partnership between Johnson's 7 Bucks Productions, which he runs with ex-wi...

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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...

China has issued a waing to news sites over using social media as a source. César Salza/CNET China has issued a crackdown on online news organisations across the country, waing them not use social media as a source without carefully verifying and fact-checking claims first.The Cyberspace Administration of China issued the directive, with the state media agency Xinhua reporting that the move was made in a bid to c...

Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that's taken over our lives.Enlarge ImageThe Nickelback-hating poster created by the Queensland Police in Australia. Queensland Police; Facebook screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET It's a question I've often wanted to ask: Where were you when you started hating Nickelback?Would anyone know? Would only the most smart and self-righteous say, "When I f...

Does your Kindle make you miss thumbing through the pages in a book? The new features hopes to replace that utility....

Enlarge ImageLogMeOnce's new feature will give exact information about when and where a request to log in was made. What if you never had to remember another password again? That's the promise coming from LogMeOnce, a company that says it'll store all your passwords in one secure place and that now has developed a new feature called PhotoLogin. Just as its name suggests, people's passwords are protected by a picture. If you want to log into a website or an app, all you have to do is snap a photo...

"Avengers" director Joss Whedon -- best known for his hit TV series "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" and "Firefly" -- quit Twitter in 2015. "Twitter is an addictive little thing," Whedon told Buzzfeed, "and if it's there, I gotta check it. When you keep doing something after it stops giving you pleasure, that's kind of rock bottom for an addict. I just had a little moment of clarity where I'm like, You know what? If I want to get stuff done, I need to not constantly hit this thing for a news item or a...

Next year is finally now for Cleveland Cavaliers fans.Long-suffering Ohio basketball fans rejoiced Sunday as their team defeated the defending NBA champion Golden State Warriors 93-89. And they did so in a way they couldn't when the franchise was founded 52 years ago: social media. In a blizzard of tweets, diehards, like Patrick Ward, celebrated the nail-biting, edge-of-your-seat Game 7 thriller. Ward lost his mind tweeting in the moments after LeBron James & Co. battled back to become the ...