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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, ...

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 ...

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...

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...

"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 ...

The music stopped the moment Shelby Belfast came on stage Wednesday night.Belfast, co-organizer of the local chapter of GRLCVLT (for "girl culture"), asked people to raise their hands and say "I'm a survivor." Slowly, about 200 men and women at the Starline Social Club, in Oakland, raised a hand and looked around in silent solidarity against what GRLCVLT calls "a culture of rape." The attendees then took action, signing petitions to remove Santa Clara County Judge Aaron Persky, who brought the i...

An update is coming to a 100-year old classic. Kent German/CNET In a day to remember for font geeks and transport nerds alike, Transport for London (TfL) announced yesterday that it was updating the century-old font it uses across the London Underground.In a blog post by Monotype, the firm that helped TfL adapt the new font, type director Malou Verlomme said the expansion of the word's oldest underground railway ...

Netflix has picked up "Big Mouth," an animated half-hour comedy series from comedian Nick Kroll and "Family Guy" writer-producer Andrew Goldberg, the streaming service announced Monday. The series, which will initially feature 10 episodes, will debut in 2017. "Big Mouth" will focus on "teenaged adventures in puberty," Netflix said in a statement.Kroll and comedian John Mulaney will voice the two main characters, Nick and Andrew. Other actors that will be featured on the show include Maya Rudolph...

Plex Good news for Nvidia Shield owners: Not only can it run Plex's Android TV, but it will soon be able to run its Full Media Server, including support for hardware-accelerated video transcoding (H.264, MPEG2 and HEVC) with multiple simultaneous streams.For those who've never heard of Nvidia Shield it comes in three different versions: Android TV, Tablet K1, and Portable versions. All include a game controller...

[embedded content] It's never too late to lea an important lesson: don't start something you can't finish. A two-year-old parakeet named Kiwi leaed it the hard way when he taught himself how to imitate the sound of his owner saying "Hey Siri," and check it out - it actually works! Siri registers the prompt and responds with an encouraging phrase of her own: "I'm listening." Sadly, the conversation goes downhill from there. The bashful budgie appears ...

The message posted to a Pinterest page allegedly associated with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. OurMine Did the massive data dump of LinkedIn accounts last month also include Mark Zuckerberg?Ourmine, a hacker group with 41,000 followers on Twitter, claimed Sunday to have compromised the Facebook CEO's Instagram, LinkedIn, Pinterest and Twitter accounts. Zuckerberg's verified Twitter account appears normal at this ...

Those hour-long waits to get your phone charged enough to leave the house may soon be a thing of the past -- if your smartphone is powered by a new MediaTek processor, that is.MediaTek says its new processors will allow users to charge their phones from 0 percent battery to 70 percent in 20 minutes. The feature, called Pump Express 3.0, will only be available at the end of the year, and will be available on the MediaTek Helio P20 and future smartphone chipsets. The Taiwanese company also claims ...

Apple has existing deals with Time Waer-owned HBO. Apple Apple reportedly considered buying major media company Time Waer last year in a bid to enhance its own media offering.Eddy Cue, an Apple senior vice president, broached the idea with Time Waer's head of corporate strategy, according to the Financial Times, which cited three people briefed on the matter in a report on Thursday.Time Waer, which owns HBO, CNN ...