IBM chief Gi i Rometty addresses attendees at Mobile World Congress 2014 in Barcelona. IBM There's Apple's Siri, Microsoft's Cortana and Amazon's Echo who serve as digital assistants in the home. Don't hold your breath for Inte ational Business Machine's Watson to make an appearance anytime soon. IB...

Shashi Dokania was, at best, a long shot candidate.After taking a four-year break from work to raise her two sons, Dokania tried to land a job. A former tax analyst, she discovered a passion for software development after taking her older son to a Silicon Valley coding bootcamp.She spent two years t...

Microsoft isn't shy about its wild expectations for augmented reality. AR, which differs from virtual reality in that it overlays digital images on top of the real world, is one of the big bets coming from Microsoft via its HoloLens headset. The company believes 80 million AR devices will be sold by...

RoadshowNewsCar IndustrySidewalk Labs teams up with Transportation for America to get US movingEnlarge ImageAnything is better than this. Chandan Kha a/AFP/Getty Images Data will solve all our problems. That's the working mantra for efforts such as the Smart City Challenge or automaker-led groups li...

Enlarge ImageIncreases in monthly mobile data usage show no signs of slowing. Ericsson North America may be a mature market where most people likely to buy a mobile phone already have. But the way we use those phones continues to change rapidly with explosive growth in data consumption.Data traffic ...

Your garden is your sanctuary, so you might as well decorate it with all the things you love when you're inside the home: Star Wars, Star Trek, zombies, the Iron Throne and cryptozoological creations. At last the tables are tu ed and you can tell Jabba the Hutt what to do. This massive inflatable Ja...

Where's C-3PO? ThinkGeek Some people have garden gnomes. Some people have butt-shaped wood cutouts. Some people have pink flamingos. And some really cool people have droids. A very detailed R2-D2 lawn o ament from ThinkGeek is ready to assist you with piloting your X-wing fighter of a garden. Beeps,...

Enlarge ImageApple scored top place among smartphone makers for customer satisfaction in a new report. Sarah Tew/CNET You may gripe about battery life, but on the whole, you're pretty da satisfied with your phone.And if you're an iPhone owner, you're likely the happiest of the bunch -- but just bare...

Misawa Design Institute's Waterscapes exhibit is a beautiful series of 3D-printed fish tanks. We love the mashup of tech, water and air to create something beautiful, and we can only hope they release the designs for sale someday. We're also taking a look at a real-life replica of a City Sca er Dron...

Enlarge ImageThe iPhone 6S and 6S Plus successors could double sotrage to 256GB. Sarah Tew/CNET Apple's upcoming iPhone 7 will be available with a whopping 256GB of storage space, matching the iPad Pro and offering lots more room for apps and videos, an analyst firm predicted Wednesday.Today's iPhon...

Tesla Motors' Model 3 CNET Tesla Motors Chief Executive Elon Musk has revealed one way the electric car company will be able to sell its upcoming Model 3 for so much less than its existing models: It won't have free access to the company's Supercharger network.Owners of the existing Model S and Mode...

This is "Crowd Control: Heaven Makes a Killing," CNET's crowdsourced science fiction novel written and edited by readers around the world. New to the story? Click here to start. To read other past installments, visit our table of contents.Chapter 9, continuedAdapted from "Knocking on Heaven's Door T...

Xiaomi will load Microsoft Office and Skype on its Mi phones. CNET Microsoft's Windows Phone may be a dud in the marketplace, but you may see other software from the company on mobile devices after a deal a ounced Tuesday with Chinese phone maker Xiaomi.That's because Xioami will install Microsoft O...

Enlarge ImageTaking the definition of "build your own" to new lengths... Claire Reilly/CNET You can say one thing about Taiwanese trade shows like Computex: They certainly bring out the obscure and fantastic gadgets. More often than not, these finds disappear back into the shadows, never to be seen ...

Enlarge ImageHololens and HTC Vive viewing a shared virtual model. Nic Healey/CNET Hololens: It's as much a dream, or a mission statement, as it is a product -- if Microsoft has its way.A ouncing at Computex its shared Windows Holographic platform, which allows users to access Windows 10 using diffe...

LG Stylus 2 Plus LG Electronics If you like handwriting and doodling on your phone, LG Electronics is bringing new computing horsepower to its pen-powered model.LG introduced its Stylus 2 in February, but on Wednesday a ounced a Stylus 2 Plus with some hardware improvements to the Android-powered ph...

Microsoft technical fellow and inventor of Hololens, Alex Kipman, taking the stage at Computex in Taiwan. Claire Reilly/CNET When Microsoft's Mr Virtual Reality, Alex Kipman, took to the stage at Computex in Taiwan today, there were plenty in the room who might have expected him to reveal a launch d...

Enlarge Image Superhot In Superhot, time only moves when you do. You're forced to think very carefully about how to move, where to shoot and how to dodge enemy fire. Now, a virtual reality version of the time-bending first-person shooter is set to come exclusively to the Oculus Rift later this year....

Enlarge Image Pixium Vision Pixium Vision on Tuesday received approval for clinical testing of the IRIS II, a bionic vision system designed to restore sight. The trial, conducted at the UK's Moorfields Eye Hospital, will target patients who have lost sight from retinitis pigmentosa.The IRIS II syste...

Enlarge ImageThe Retro Freak brings all your old game cartridges into one place. Claire Reilly/CNET As any geek will tell you, the coolest people are collectors, especially if your habit extends to collecting retro games.Collecting the bulky consoles is another matter. But one gadget at Computex in ...