Google warms up for soccer with Copa America doodle - CNET
Enlarge ImageThe Google Doodle team pays tribute to the Copa America Centenario. Screenshot by Andrew Gebhart/CNET Are you ready for some futbol?Today's Google Doodle celebrates the start of the Copa America Centenario -- the 100th year of the Copa America soccer tou ament featuring teams from the A...
Views on Snowden: Quotes on leaks and liberty (pictures) - CNET
Edward Snowden is seen by some as a champion of democracy and by others as an enemy of the state. The former NSA contractor leaked classified information in 2013 that led to a series of news stories revealing surveillance programs used by the US and UK to scoop up vast stores of user data and commun...
Snowden and Surveillance in America - CNET
June 30, 2014 -- Admiral Michael S. Rogers tells The New York Times he has seen terrorist groups change communications tactics over the last year, but adds, "You have not heard me as the director say, 'Oh, my God, the sky is falling.'" Rogers was three months into his tenure as director of the NSA, ...
Samsung Pay arrives in Europe, Spain is numero uno - CNET
Samsung Pay has landed in Spain, marking the service's first European debut.Like rival services Apple Pay and Android Pay (the latter of which recently arrived in the UK), Samsung Pay sees customers adding credit or debit cards to their smartphone, which can then be tapped on tills to make a contact...
Apple App Store and iCloud back online after outage - CNET
Everything green. That's what we want to see. Screenshot/Apple Apple's services are functioning as normal, after an outage that saw the App Store and plenty of iCloud features knocked for six.Apple's status page says that all its services are ru ing as normal after the glitches that appear to have t...
Twitter and Yahoo reportedly meet to discuss merger - CNET
Billionaire Warren Buffett, UK outlet The Daily Mail and US telco AT&T have all been said to have expressed interest in buying Yahoo, or at least parts of it, which for months has been looking for a new suitor.Now, we can add Twitter to that list, according to the New York Post. Twitter executives m...
Is the universe expanding faster than we thought? - CNET
Enlarge ImageIllustration demonstrating the steps the team took to measure the Hubble Constant. NASA, ESA, A. Feild (STScI), and A. Riess (STScI/JHU) A new study could change how we examine the universe. Using Hubble data, a team of researchers led by Nobel Laureate Adam Riess has recalculated the e...
Walmart to test grocery delivery through Uber, Lyft - CNET
Walmart will soon begin testing a grocery-delivery service through Uber and Lyft as part of an effort to better compete with Amazon.The retail giant is expected to launch the effort in the next two weeks in Denver and another market, according to a company blog post late Thursday. The second market ...