RoadshowCar IndustryLA Auto Show rebrands, reorganizes, becomes AutoMobility LAEnlarge ImageHope you brought some good walking shoes. Los Angeles Auto Show Earlier this year, I wrote about AutoMobili-D, the cleverly named addition to the Detroit auto show that covers the growing blend of the tech an...

Microsoft Investor Warren Buffett's company Berkshire Hathaway Inc. has 9.81 million shares in Apple by the end of 2016's first quarter, according to regulatory documents filed Monday. The shares were worth about $1.07 billion as of March 31. This disclosure comes less than a month after Apple repor...

Enlarge ImageApple boss Tim Cook is in Beijing this week to stem the company's China crisis. Josh Miller/CNET Tim Cook just took a $1 billion taxi ride. Arriving in China, the Apple CEO jumped into a cab from Didi Chuxing, the ridesharing app and Uber rival in which Apple recently invested $1 billio...

Enlarge ImageHomer gets to grips with technology. Fox As a great man once said, the answer to life's problems aren't at the bottom of a bottle, they're on TV! That man was Homer Simpson, and this weekend he appeared in the first ever live segment on "The Simpsons".In the episode "Simprovised", broad...

Enlarge ImageBeau Bridges, Luke Edwards, Fred Savage and Christian Slater in feature-length Nintendo ad "The Wizard". Getty Images Nintendo could be about to insert coins and push start on movies.According to the Japanese publication Asahi, Nintendo president Tatsumi Kimishima said the company could...

Enlarge Image"Drive" auteur Nicolas Winding Refn directs Elle Fa ing (pictured) and Keanu Reeves in this horror movie for Amazon. Amazon "Drive" director Nicolas Winding Refn reckons Amazon will save indie filmmaking.Speaking to Variety at the Ca es film festival, Refn described Amazon's production ...

Rovio has the US and China in its sights after a strong opening weekend. Rovio Just days away from its US premiere, "The Angry Birds Movie" has already soared to number 1 across 37 markets, raking in $43 million during its first weekend across Europe, South America and Australia.The biggest contende...

RoadshowAuto TechMajor automakers test self-driving cars with NXP BlueBox computerNXP released this graphic of how BlueBox integrates with a car's sensors to enable self-driving features. NXP While automakers carefully test the technical, public and regulatory waters for future self-driving cars, te...

Enlarge ImageThe Pleiades. NASA, ESA and AURA/Caltech Not a lot is known about the Greek poet Sappho. She was probably bo sometime between 630 and 612 BCE, and she is thought to have died in around 570 BCE after retu ing to Lesbos from exile. Thanks to a team of researchers from the University of Te...

Google The slow and inexorable slide to a world without Flash continues, with Google revealing plans to phase out support for Adobe's Flash Player in its Chrome browser for all but a handful of websites. And the company expects the changes to roll out by the fourth quarter of 2016.While it says Flas...

Amazon will introduce new lines of its private-label brands in the coming weeks, the Wall Street Jou al reported Sunday, citing unidentified sources.Representing Amazon's first broad foray into perishable foods, the new brands will have names like Happy Belly, Wickedly Prime and Mama Bear and includ...

Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that's taken over our lives.Enlarge ImageThe car was completely submerged. Tobermory Press Inc/ Facebook screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNEt Some people slavishly follow their car's GPS.When the weather is bad and you can't see much ou...

Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that's taken over our lives.Enlarge ImagePlease don't tell you me you play games during sex, too. Sean Hollister/CNET You can talk freely here.You can share your deepest secrets and your most troubling traits. So please lie down on Tec...

Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that's taken over our lives.Enlarge ImageHe's in pain, don't you see? SNL/YouTube screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET You wouldn't want to be Drake.Yes, almost everyone of both sexes wants to hold him close. Yes, he's got lots of money...

Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that's taken over our lives.Enlarge ImagePlease don't tell you me you play games during sex, too. Sean Hollister/CNET You can talk freely here.You can share your deepest secrets and your most troubling traits. So please lie down on Tec...

Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that's taken over our lives.Enlarge ImageThe car was completely submerged. Tobermory Press Inc/ Facebook screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNEt Some people slavishly follow their car's GPS.When the weather is bad and you can't see much ou...

Warren Buffett may be kicking the tires on Yahoo.The billionaire investor behind Berkshire Hathaway is part of a consortium exploring a bid for Yahoo's inte et assets, Reuters reported Saturday, citing unidentified sources familiar with the matter. Said to be joining the "Oracle of Omaha" in the eff...

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg will meet with a group of conservative leaders on Wednesday as part of an investigation into allegations the social network suppressed stories published by conservative news outlets.The meeting at Facebook's Menlo Park, Califo ia, headquarters will include "about a dozen...

Google may face a record antitrust fine from the European Commission in the coming weeks, according to the British newspaper The Sunday Telegraph.The EU is considering levying a fine of about 3 billion euros ($3.4 billion) against the web giant over its dominance in the search market, according to a...

This year, Google is taking I/O 2016 back to the mothership. Instead of holding it at a convention center in San Francisco, the company is hosting the event at the Shoreline Amphitheater outdoor concert venue right in its backyard (no, really). The show is meant to educate developers about using Goo...