Enlarge Image Sirin Labs How valuable is the information on your phone? If you think it's worth over six digits, Israeli start-up Sirin Labs just a ounced a smartphone for you.The Solarin costs £9,500. After tax and conversion, that's roughly $16,500 or AU$22,700. The selling point of the phone is i...

Enlarge Image Valve After around two years of anticipation, Valve's Steam controllers hit the market last November alongside the Steam Machine. Now, around 7 months later, the company has a ounced that 500,000 of the game pads have been snapped up. In a blog post, Steam engineer Jeff Bellinghausen s...

Ubisoft Tom Clancy's The Division has been a tremendous success for Ubisoft -- making $330 million in its first five days of availability back in March and breaking company records in the process. Now, Ubisoft hopes it can make lightning strike twice, developing a film based on the new video game fr...

Enlarge Image Nic Healey/CNET If you're one of the people who've got themselves a little worried about the upcoming "Ghostbusters" movie, stay calm: this Ghostbusters case mod doesn't feature any women so you can enjoy it without fear.What it does feature is a very detailed representation of the ori...

Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that's taken over our lives.But does it co ect husband and wife? CNET Now that it's the world platform for being, Facebook reveals more and more about us.We reveal ourselves while Facebook prowls and serves us edifying ads and while re...

[embedded content] German director and animator Lotte Reiniger would have been 117 today. Bo in 1899, she was one of the pioneers of animation, and is widely credited with having made the world's first full-length animated film, "The Adventures of Prince Achmed," in 1926.What made Reiniger's style u...

The question was posed simply and directly to Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, who isn't generally afraid of letting his feelings be known:Do social networks have to be neutral? During the Code Conference on Wednesday in Rancho Palos Verdes, Califo ia, Dorsey said a social network needs to hear from "every ...

Move over Gaga, here comes Google. The Web giant on Wednesday unveiled a 90-second piano melody (mp3), the first piece of art created by machine lea ing as part of Project Magenta. The project, a ounced last week at Moogfest, is an artificial intelligence effort to create original music and visual a...

Disney and propmaker Propshop collaborated on a series of "Force Awakens" replicas made to perfectly match the original on-screen weapons and helmets. Most Stormtrooper helmets look alike. Fi , however, gets a bloody hand print streaked across the face of his helmet. This sets him apart and hints at...

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Yahoo published three secret requests for user information from the FBI on Wednesday. It marked the first time the FBI has allowed a company to tell the public it received National Security Letters based on a process set up in last year's USA Freedom Act, Yahoo said.The letters are special subpoenas...

[embedded content] There are a lot of fictional worlds I would love to visit. Star Trek? Yes! Su ydale? I'll bring Mr. Pointy! "Labryinth?" I've got a good sense of direction. "The Shining?" No way. The classic Stanley Kubrick horror flick full of ghosts and madness is not my idea of a good vacation...

This is where you go when you want to report bad guests near your pad. Screenshot by Jessica Dolcourt/CNET When the floor-stomping, party-throwing, trash-piling people who used Airbnb to rent the place near yours get too obnoxious to handle, you now have an outlet for complaint beyond angry rants on...

2K Games a ounced Mafia III's $150 Collector's Edition back in April, but now, the publisher has provided many more details about what's included and also released an image of it.As you can see in the image below, there's a lot here. In addition to the game, you get the soundtrack on vinyl, a 56-pag...

Buy a new phone, get a VR headset for free. Andrew Hoyle/CNET Samsung wants to sell customers on its Gear VR headset in a big way, so much so that it's giving away its virtual headsets for free to anyone who buys one of six phones.Between now and June 9, buyers who pick up a Galaxy S7, S7 Edge, Note...

EA's free-ru ing sequel Mirror's Edge Catalyst isn't scheduled to come out until June 7, but Xbox One owners with an EA Access membership can play it right now.The six-hour EA Access trial for the game was not expected to begin until June 2, but the game popped up today (via NeoGAF). In the EA Acces...

Artist Zhao with his creation before the incident. Weibo Nick Wilde, the con-artist fox in the animated film "Zootopia," is a pretty sly fellow. But even he couldn't escape the clumsiness of one lone kid. A Chinese Lego artist named Zhao spent three days and nights using the toy bricks to construct ...

Mary Meeker at the 2015 Code Conference. Asa Mathat for Recode Mary Meeker paints a sobering picture that Silicon Valley may want to attention to. Everything from population growth, global economic expansion, smartphone shipments and, most importantly, the number of new Inte et users has hit a wall,...

King Tut's tomb may have originally been excavated way back in the 1920s, but the burial area and its contents are still revealing secrets all these years later. An inte ational research team discovered meteoric iron in the blade of a dagger found interred with young Tutankhamun, Egypt's most famous...