Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that's taken over our lives.Why do people do this? ArmyBee/Amazong screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET Please, I'm not a ranter.This is more the bemused muttering of someone who's watched an event, a thing unfold for years, and failed ...

Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that's taken over our lives.Be ie pleads his case in vain. SNL/YouTube screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET You're likely tired of the election thing already.The painful truth, though, is that it's only just started.And, more than ever,...

From drones to bikes and robots to 3D printing, Maker Faire is a fantastic world of projects for just about every type of curious thinker. Over the course of the weekend, more than 150,000 attendees will get up close with creative projects from more than 1,200 maker entries. Let's block ads! (Why?)

One killer messenger app. That's all you need. Not the four that Google seems to think you do. At Google I/O, the Inte et giant's a ual conference for developers, Google unwrapped two new, very distinct messenger apps that will work on iOS and Android phones "this summer." There's Allo, for messages...

When you're a geek, sometimes it's easy to stumble on Star Wars in the most common of places. Whether it's a cabinet door that sounds like Chewbacca or an elevator that sounds like a TIE fighter, it seems that doors often produce the same kind of audio effects we've come to love in Star Wars.This do...

We all have our favorite ringtone set on our phones to notify us when that all-too-important call needs our attention.For some of us, though, many famous phone ringtones are a oying reminders of when our co-workers, family members or roommates forget to tu off their phones and end up interrupting re...

Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that's taken over our lives.Your new town square. CNET If you were going to build a new town square, would you put it next to the old town square?That's what Apple claims to have done in its new flagship San Francisco store.Opening on ...

Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that's taken over our lives.Will digital assistants make some people totally useless? CNET Making dire predictions is easy and safe. If you're wrong, you'll have a nice surprise. If you're right, however, everyone will respect your fin...

New aliens? Check. Strange new worlds? Check. The Captain Kirk and his crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise in great peril? Check. Scotty wisecracking at the worst possible moment? Check.The second trailer for "Star Trek Beyond" has all this and more. The action-packed, fast-paced "Star Trek Beyond" traile...

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If you're squicked out by bugs in their natural, tiny size, don't plan to see "Microsculpture," a new photography exhibit coming to England's Oxford Museum of Natural History on May 27. But if you've got a sense for amazing, artistic photography, start thinking about a visit. British photographer Le...

And, finally, here's a moment we'd probably rather unsee. "Preacher" is full of twisted, blasphemous and flat-out deranged moments. We hope the TV series shares that weird taste, but honestly, we'd rather never again see what meat magnate Odin Quinca on keeps in his shed. Let's block ads! (Why?)

Enlarge ImageDominic Cooper plays Jesse Custer in the new "Preacher" TV series, which premiers Sunday on AMC in the US and Amazon Prime Video in the UK. Lewis Jacobs/Amazon It was the time of the preacher... So begins the comic series "Preacher", by writer Garth E is and artist Steve Dillon. Publish...

"Have you heard of the TMZ?" asks Allan Devantier, the head of Samsung's new audio lab in Los Angeles. "Do you know what it stands for?" "It's Thirty Mile Zone. See those buildings?" Devantier follows up, pointing out of the window. "They were built within the TMZ so that actors could live in them, ...

You never forget your first. For me, it happened when I was in college.I fell in love with the iPhone.Up until then, I'd rely on cheap, ugly, brick-like cell phones. After all, the only thing I needed my phone to do was dial and hold a battery charge. Even upgrading to a slimmed-down flip phone like...

Enlarge Image Fox; Luke Westaway/CNET "X-Men: Apocalypse" is set in the 1980s, complete with giant hair, pastel clothes, and shoulder pads of apocalyptic proportions, plus a soundtrack to match -- so we're here to test your knowledge of the X-cellent '80s sounds of the "Apocalypse"!Set in 1983, the ...

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The Inte et will always have an endless supply of two things: trolls and jokes. That's in case America's presidential elections become more civilized and we need to tap into a backup stockpile to get our fix of both. A recent trend on Facebook that started with one of the more infamous Inte et troll...

[embedded content] Thought there was nothing more American than Budweiser temporarily renaming its beer America? We've been one-upped, fellow Yankees, and by those hockey-lovers north of the border. Phillips Brewing on Canada's Vancouver Island a ounced a contest, Beer From a Bird, in which the wi e...