Enlarge ImageXiaomi, show us more of your drone. Screenshot by Kent German/CNET Xiaomi a ounced Friday that it will land in the quickly growing drone market by releasing its first quadcopter at an event next week. The company spilled the news on its Miui blog with no details beyond two photos, one o...

Here's our weekly bullet list of topics on today's long episode. Enjoy!Headline Deep Dive: We discuss MIT's battery-retrieving origami meat robot, a selfie stick that officially crosses the line, and how the toy drifting truck ru ing Autorally could save your life in the future. Guest: We welcome Ka...

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 8Compiled by Escobar MacNamara, curator of the Museum...

Screenshot by Kent German/CNET As investigators continue to search the Mediterranean for wreckage from a missing EqyptAir aircraft, the airline added dark ba ers to its Twitter and Facebook accounts to mou the flight and its victims.Against a background of grey clouds on both social media sites is t...

James Martin/CNET Edward Snowden has joined a growing group of privacy experts criticizing Google for not integrating end-to-end encryption as a default feature in its new Allo messaging app. In a tweet the NSA whistleblower called Allo "dangerous" and wa ed his followers against using it for now. A...

Google/Screenshot by Juan Garzon/CNET Google has shown off all its new surprises at its I/O developer conference this week and we've been all over it like a pervasive rash. This week on the CNET UK podcast, Andy Hoyle and Luke Westaway discuss the new things you can expect from Android N, Google's f...

Enlarge ImageThe Skross World Adapter has dual USB ports and features plug standards for Australia, Europe, the United Kingdom and the United States. Skross Congratulations to Dan D. of Malden, Massachusetts, for wi ing a fixie bike from Critical Cycles last week, and to Jason B. of Las Vegas for wi...

CNET It's no secret that Yahoo has been on the hunt for a buyer for some time now. Companies and individuals as diverse as the UK's Daily Mail and US billion Warren Buffet have all been mooted as potential purchasers.Verizon is the current favourite, but the US-based communications carrier might pay...

eBay is imagining a future where we shop in VR, and it wants you to put on your "shoptacles" and start buying.The granddaddy of e-commerce is jumping on the virtual reality bandwagon with the launch of what it claims is the "world's first" VR shopping app. eBay has partnered with Australian departme...

Samsung will partner with Alibaba's financial affiliate on mobile payments as the world's biggest phone maker looks to expand its presence in China.The partnership will allow Samsung Pay, the electronics giant's mobile payment system, to work with Alipay, the payments affiliate of Alibaba, China's b...

If you're the kind of person who pays attention to devices in movies, you might have noticed that the phones and tablets in Marvel's "Captain America: Civil War" all belonged to a brand called Vivo.Vivo is not some fictitious brand created by the Marvel writers. It's actually some ca y product place...

Kanye West has gone on another epic rant.But not on social media; this time the hip hop star waxed poetic on Ellen DeGeneres' talk show. During an eight-minute-long interview that aired Thursday, West kept it 100, talking about his occasional bizarre antics, including asking Facebook CEO Mark Zucker...

RoadshowNewsTrucks2017 Ford Raptor delivers a rapturous win in the desertFord has a bit of a history with the desert. On any given day you can see modified Ford Rangers tackling the rocky terrain of the high desert or Ford engines dropped into a custom trophy truck vying for a spot on the Baja 1000 ...

Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that's taken over our lives.Donald Trump, Apple investor. Fox News screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET You might be under the impression Donald Trump wants nothing to do with Apple. After all, he called for a boycott of Apple products ...

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Enlarge ImageAn X-ray showing the cellphone swallowed by the Irish man. Inte ational Jou al of Surgery Case Reports This is going to sound pretty hard to swallow, but a prisoner in Dublin, Ireland, somehow managed to consume a cellphone. And unlike that one time when the dog wolfed down Grandma's di...

Hideo Kojima has discussed the decision to continue making AAA games at his newly founded studio, instead of smaller, indie experiences. According to the Metal Gear creator, the decision was influenced by what fans expected of him.Speaking at the Nordic Game event in Sweden, Kojima explained that he...

RoadshowNewsSUVsJeep recalls 392,464 Wranglers because dirt can disable an airbagEnlarge ImageHalf of the 2007 Wrangler's press pictures involve f%^$ing off-roading, for goodness' sake. Jeep It's important for a vehicle to be capable of everything the marketing team says it can do. Driving through a...

The house that is CNET has given us some amazing tech memories, but we've decided we want to give it a fresh coat of paint, expand the kitchen, and refinish the floors. That's a lot of work, and it all starts with our "front door."There's no question CNET is the market leader in tech news & reviews,...

Gran Turismo Sport, the latest entry in the PlayStation-exclusive racing sim series, will launch for PS4 on November 15 in Japan, Asia, and North america, followed by a November 18 launch in the UK.The date was provided during a special event showcasing the game. You can check out a trailer for the ...