Smartphone-based VR headsets like Google Cardboard and Samsung Gear VR are some of the most affordable ways to experience virtual reality, but they lack the advanced motion-tracking controls of high-end headsets like the Oculus Rift and the HTC Vive. However, if a YouTube video from Israeli gesture ...

Apple's latest iOS update isn't playing well with the 9.7-inch iPad Pro, say users. CNET Another Apple software update, another hiccup. On Monday, Apple rolled out version 9.3.2 of its mobile operating system to fix a small number of bugs. But the update itself has introduced a bug of its own -- one...

Enlarge ImageToby Jones to be the next villain to keep Holmes on his toes in season 4 of "Sherlock." Video screenshot by Bo ie Burton/CNET Filming for the next season of "Sherlock" is well under way at 221B Baker Street. Actor Toby Jones -- best known for playing Truman Capote in the biopic "Infamou...

Enlarge Image Panasonic If you're a fan of extra expensive versions of household items, you may be tickled by a new bladeless fan from Panasonic.A luxury edition of the air-multiplying Q fan the company released in Japan last year, they'll cost ¥100,000 each, which converts to roughly $920, £640 and...

[embedded content] The future of phones could be shape-shifting blocks that transform in your hand -- at least according to one prototype mobile gadget that's set to be demonstrated soon.The Cubimorph is a chain of cubes, each of which is capable of swivelling in any direction automatically, to form...

"Crowd Control: Heaven Makes a Killing," CNET's crowdsourced science fiction novel written and edited by readers, continues here. To read past installments, lea more about the project or see our contributor list, visit the digital table of contents. Chapter 6 From "The Diaries of Cindy Parker."U.S.S...

Enlarge Image Screenshot by Daniel Van Boom/CNET Waze has more than 700,000 users in the San Francisco Bay area, and it intends to give them the ability to get to know each other better -- and help the environment in the process.The Google-owned navigation app on Monday a ounced it is trialling a ca...

Enlarge Image Josh Miller/CNET With India slowly becoming one of the fastest growing markets for the iPhone, Apple is looking for ways to bolster its presence in the country.Apple CEO Tim Cook will be visiting India on Tuesday to meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Cook is expected to utilize this tr...

Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that's taken over our lives.Enlarge ImageAre a couple of those tabs revealing? screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET Web sex is something very familiar to many.Webb sex, on the other hand, suddenly became a matter for deep debate after a...

[embedded content] If you were expecting a gloriously unapologetic period film bonanza in the upcoming film based on Ubisoft's hit video game series Assassin's Creed, think again. In an interview with IGN, executive producer Pat Crowley revealed that, unlike the video games, around 65 percent of the...

NASA Thanks to Snapchat and NASA, today we got to live vicariously through Inte ational Space Station commander Tim Kopra, tumbling around the Earth in the space station, to celebrate its 100,000th orbit. In a series of short videos, he talks about life in microgravity, and the astronauts' activitie...

RoadshowCar IndustryAutonomous-trucking startup Otto comes out with retrofit-ready self-driving techEnlarge ImageLook, ma, no hands...or legs, or head, or body. Otto If you want to get involved with the future of trucks, your options are still quite limited. You can drop $375,000 on a turbine-powere...

[embedded content] It's like Argo City's Omegahedron come to life: a 3D printer that can create metal structures in mid-air and that could one day be used to create electronics and biomedical devices that require custom architectures. It was developed by a team of researchers at Harvard's Wyss Insti...

London's Gateway project is officially accepting applications to ride in its experimental driverless shuttle in the Greenwich neighborhood -- would you try it?We're also checking out an amazing little robot that can fold up and unfurl itself like origami, and it's designed for human ingestion in ord...

Have you always wanted a cool use ame on Xbox Live but were late to the party?You're in luck. On Wednesday, the online ecosystem will make available nearly 1 million Gamertags linked to abandoned accounts from the original Xbox era, said Larry "Major Nelson" Hryb, the company's Xbox Live programming...

[embedded content] NBC's "Mr Robot", a show about a hacker uncovering corporate corruption, has been praised for its realistic depictions of hacking, but that savvy hasn't quite spilled over into the real world. When the "Who is Mr Robot" website launched in preparation for the second season (you ca...

Enlarge Image GraphicaArtis/Getty Google's AI has been writing poetry. Of a sort, at least. It hasn't been intending to write poetry, but the poetry has just been spilling out of its soul. No, that's not it either. Actually, the "poems" are a result of the neural network figuring out how to form sen...

By the time your favorite TV shows are airing their season finales, networks have already begun to think about what should and will replace them come next season. During a slew of presentations in New York this week, NBC, FOX, ABC, CBS and The CW will all a ounce and show-off their upcoming new show...

Juan Garzón/CNET We're just days away from Google I/O, the developer conference where we're bound to see new virtual-reality experiences and Android updates as well as (quite possibly) a few surprises. As always, CNET will be there in full force, with reporters on the ground at the show. Be sure to ...

BET CEO Debra Lee brings diversity and years of media experience to Twitter's board. BETTwitter is adding Black Entertainment Television CEO Debra Lee to its board, part of a broader promise by one of Silicon Valley's less diverse companies to become more inclusive.Lee rose to the top of BET Network...