Enlarge Image "Here's looking at you, kid." Samsung's new tablet can tell who you are by looking you right in the eyes. Dubbed the Galaxy Tab Iris, the new tablet is hitting the Indian market, Samsung said in a blog post Wednesday. The tablet will use a built-in dual-eye sca er to authenticate peopl...

Enlarge ImageAT&T GoPhone customers get a little data to play with. AT&T AT&T is in a generous mood. The company said late Tuesday that it is giving new and existing customers on two of its prepaid GoPhone plans an additional gigabyte of data. Customers on the $45 plan now have 3GB, while the $60 pl...

Enlarge ImageThe Raspberry Pi's low price is designed to get hobbyists thinking differently. Taylor Martin/CNET There may soon be another reason to love the uber-affordable and portable Raspberry Pi 3. An entry for Raspberry Pi 3, a $35, small and simple computer, appeared on Google's Android Open S...

RoadshowNewsCoupesPrepare yourselves: The first 2017 Acura NSX is out in the wildEnlarge ImageYou'd look happy, too, if you got your car for the low, low price of a tax-deductible charity donation. Acura When you pay $1.2 million for a car, you'd expect a reasonable degree of fanfare. But a press re...

Alibaba Group Chairman Jack Ma speaking at The Economic Club of New York. Alibaba Group Alibaba, China's largest e-commerce site, is under the Securities and Exchange Commission microscope. The company, which famously sold $1 billion worth of goods in eight minutes during China's Single's Day holida...

Netflix is already investing in European content, making shows such as "Marseille," starring Gerard Depardieu. Netflix Netflix, Amazon and other streaming services operating in Europe will be required to ensure that at least 20 percent of their content is European, according to new European Commissi...

It doesn't matter what way the court swings on the the cable industry's legal challenge to the Federal Communications Commission's open Inte et rules -- everyone has already lost.Enlarge ImageA ruling on a federal lawsuit challenging the FCC's Net neutrality rules is expected any day. Kevin Huang/Fi...

RoadshowNewsAuto TechFenSens tu s the average license plate holder into a parking sensor arrayEnlarge ImageSadly, the car does not actually shoot out rainbows. Would be neat, though. FenSens Parking sensors are not cheap. These little bumper-savers can cost hundreds of dollars on their own, and they...

Over the past seven months, CNET created a science fiction novel in a very unorthodox way. We started with an idea for a story, but then asked the public to collaborate with us in writing it. Finally, we took that crowdsourced work and edited it into the version we call "Crowd Control: Heaven Makes ...

Looking back on what I lea ed from crowdsourcing an entire science fiction novel for CNET, I was reminded of a short story by Mark Twain. Titled "How I edited an agricultural paper (once)," it's about the mishaps involved in taking temporary editorship of an agricultural paper in the 19th century. I...

Filmmaker Keiichi Matsuda's new short "Hyper-Reality" offers a grim look at a future where augmented reality has permeated just about every aspect of life (with not-so-great results). We thought it was thought-provoking.We're also talking about the University of Bristol's GauntLev. It's a series of ...

Microsoft has enjoyed very little success in the smartphone world since purchasing Nokia. Sarah Tew/CNET Microsoft is continuing its retreat from the smartphone business with massive job cuts in its devices division.The company a ounced on Wednesday that it would be axing 1,850 jobs in addition to t...

Aloysius Low If you're a Telegram or Viber user and wondering why there's no one else to message, well the answer could lie in the fact that these apps just aren't as popular on Android compared to WhatsApp or Facebook Messenger. Research from data analytics firm SimilarWeb shows that the Facebook-o...

The Pirate Bay Faced with a new ruling from the Swedish court that would confiscate its Swedish domains of ThePirateBay.se and PirateBay.se, torrent search site The Pirate Bay is moving back to where it first started in 2003, ThePirateBay.org.The site is currently redirecting all traffic from the ab...

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Enlarge Image Penguin/Random House Never could get the hang of Thursdays? Thankfully, Towel Day, honoring "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" author Douglas Adams, falls on Wednesday, May 25, this year. The a ual celebration honors all things Adams, including the book's statement that a towel is "abo...

I'm making a Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster. According to "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy," it's "the best drink in existence." Drinking one feels "like having your brains smashed out by a slice of lemon wrapped round a large gold brick." I'm a little scared, but I'm going to do it anyway and I'm...

Enlarge Image ComiXology Digital comics platform Comixology has launched a new subscription service. Called Comixology Unlimited, it offers readers what Comixology has described as "endless access to "digital comics, graphic novels and manga" for $5.99 per month.The "Netflix for comics" is available...

Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that's taken over our lives.Eric Schmidt, iPhone user. Stephanie Pilick/dpa/Corbis Please try to imagine Steve Jobs wandering around with a Samsung Galaxy in his pocket.Somehow, it's hard.Yet at Google, they claim to be a touch less st...

Hulk Hogan has some pretty big Silicon Valley muscle backing him in his legal battle against Gawker Media, according to Forbes.The site reports that PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel is footing the legal bill for the former wrestler, aka Terry Bollea, who won more than $115 million in a Florida jury tri...