At only four and a half years old, Minecraft's popularity has been nothing short of staggering. The open-world, voxel-based game that has been described as "digital Lego" has now shot past 100 million copies sold, making it the second game in history to have done so, and the second best-selling sing...

Taylor Martin/CNET Ever since Google introduced Now on Tap as part of the Android Marshmallow update last year, more suggestions as you work in other apps has been one thing we've been hoping for. Fortunately, we got a little of that yesterday when Google added text and image search to its personal ...

The boy who lived is now the man appearing live on stage. And you don't need an invisibility cloak to see behind the scenes of the hotly anticipated new play "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child" thanks to these videos. Two generations of wizards gather for a behind-the-scenes video, which shows the c...

Broekn bike? Too tired to bike? Call Uber. Kent German/CNET Bicycle riders in Amsterdam now have a new option for getting around the cycling-mad city when they just can't power themselves through a long ride home.A ounced today, UberBike lets Uber customers order a car with a bike rack to get both t...

Intel CEO Brian Krzanich on stage earlier this year. CNET Less than a week before Califo ia's June 7 presidential primary, presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump won't be going inside Intel.The New York Times yesterday reported that Intel CEO Brian Krzanich canceled a pla ed fundraiser at his h...

Gotthard Tu el Switzerland yesterday won another battle in its national obsession to conquer the Alps when it opened the 35-mile (57-km) long Gotthard Base Tu el.Ru ing roughly from north to south near the center of the mountainous nation, the rail tu el will provide a direct link between Rotterdam ...

If you're a little bored when you hit the rowing machine at the gym, maybe you'd prefer to feel like you were rowing down a river in the Rockies, or even through an asteroid field in space? That's what a brand new VR experience for the HTC Vive headset is aiming to do.At the moment virtual reality e...

Enlarge ImageMalcolm Tu bull, Australia's Prime Minister. David Gray/Corbis The office of Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Tunbull inadvertently distributed hundreds of "confidential" email addresses on Wednesday due to an "administrative error", The Guardian reports.Women seeking to be appointed t...

The new Atom AR2 will also double as a light bulb. Aloysius Low/CNET Debuting at Computex in Taiwan, the Amaryllo Atom AR2 is a 360-degree home security camera that cleverly uses a home's light socket as a power source, saving you the need to mount it on the wall.The Atom AR2 comes with auto-trackin...

Harry Potter is all grown up.The boy who lived is a husband and father in "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child", a new play continuing his magical adventures. And now, before you can say "Expelliarmus!" the first pictures of Harry, his family and friends -- and old foes -- have been released.Actor Jam...

Enlarge Image HBO Excitement for the film adaptation of Ea est Cline's dystopia sci-fi novel "Ready Player One" has been mounting ever since Steven Spielberg was a ounced last March.Now we have another reason to get keen, with T.J. Miller, a recent standout in "Deadpool" and HBO's "Silicon Valley" T...

If you have top-of-the-line hardware, why stick it in a boring black box? These modders have taken their passion to the extreme with custom lighting, liquid cooling and extravagant cases, reminding us that sometimes, consoles just don't cut it. Read Less Let's block ads! (Why?)

Asus made many exciting a ouncements on Monday at Computex, including the reveals of the ZenBook 3 and the ZenFone 3 range. Perhaps most surprising, though, was Zenbo, Asus' adorable home robot.Zenbo will launch in the next 9 to 12 months, said Asus CEO Jerry Shen in an interview with CNET. It's a l...

While Asus did not a ounce or confirm a VR headset, these were spotted at the company's press event on Monday. Claire Reilly/CNET Taiwanese electronics manufacturer Asus already has an augmented reality product ready, but it won't be showing it off anytime soon. According to CEO Jerry Shen, who spok...

RoadshowNewsCar IndustryUber gets $3.5 billion, its biggest investment yet, from Saudi ArabiaEnlarge Image NurPhoto/Getty Images Uber has ruffled the feathers of taxi companies and gove ments the world over, but its inte ational relations aren't all bad. On Wednesday, the company a ounced it had rec...

RoadshowNewsMusk says Apple may have missed the boat on autonomous carsElon Musk thinks Apple may be too far behind the curve on autonomous cars to catch up to his company.Tesla's CEO said Wednesday that while he welcomes the competition, he doesn't see the iPhone maker having a vehicle in productio...

Enlarge Image Blizzard Overwatch, Blizzard's hot new team-based shooter, was launched on May 24. Seven days later, in the early hours of May 31, Twitch streamer FenderellaKN became the first player to report hitting level 100.As with many competitive online games, you've given a certain amount of po...

Enlarge Image Marvel Oscar wi er Brie Larson is the current frontru er to play Captain Marvel in the upcoming Marvel film, reports Variety. Sources have told the entertainment publication that Larson is the studio's first choice and that she's leaning towards taking the role.Captain Marvel, aka Caro...

Enlarge Image Claire Reilly/CNET During its keynote at Computex 2016, Microsoft went over many of the new features coming in the Windows A iversary Update, as well as a ouncing the Windows Holographic shared platform for AR and VR and the company's strategy for what it's calling "mixed reality".But ...

Microsoft's Windows Hello log-in feature will so offer support for wearables. Microsoft Bill Gates famously said that making Windows users type Ctrl+Alt+Delete to log in was "a mistake". Now, if Microsoft gets its way, typing could be phased out for good with the company unveiling a new way of loggi...