[embedded content] Doom has arrived and it's looking pretty sweet. The latest game in the insanely popular run of first person shooters is now here for PC, Xbox One and PS4. So why not celebrate with some high art?Bethesda got Australia's champion chainsaw carver (it's a real thing!) to create a 2.4...

Enlarge Image CNET/James Martin How important is China to Apple? The company just invested $1 billion in Didi Chuxing, Uber's main rival in China, in part to better understand the country's market."We are making the investment for a number of strategic reasons, including a chance to lea more about c...

Mark Zuckerberg says there is "no evidence" that Facebook's Trending Topics feature suppressed stories from conservative news outlets but vows to take action if a Facebook investigation found otherwise."We take this report very seriously and are conducting a full investigation to ensure our teams up...

Enlarge Image Bo ie Osbo e Are Netflix and The CW squaring off to see who can be the home of comic book TV series? Hot off the back of news that "Supergirl" would transition from CBS to The CW, the network has now commissioned a series run of "Riverdale", the TV show based on the long-ru ing Archie ...

Here's our weekly bullet list of topics on today's long episode. Enjoy!Headline Deep Dive: We discuss how much we want to check out The Void's hyper-reality "Ghostbusters" experience coming to New York City; why MIT's Materiable platform is a big deal to us; and how pleasantly surprised we are that ...

Facebook wants to set the record straight on its editorial policies so the topic will stop trending on the social network.The Menlo Park, Califo ia, social network made public its most current Trending Topics guidelines on Thursday, part of an effort to combat reports that it's politically biased. A...

Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes is losing her chief operating officer as they both face possible bans from the blood-testing business. Gilbert Carrasquillo/Getty Images Embattled blood-testing firm Theranos said Thursday that Su y Balwani, the company's chief operating officer, is stepping down and re...

Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that's taken over our lives.Enlarge ImageIt's not easy to lip-sync in British English. Apple screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET The big brains at Apple Music sat down and sipped jasmine tea."What are we going to do for a new ad?" said...

Enlarge ImageRandall Blackford, general manager of Pizza Hut Africa, displays the pizza at the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro. Pizza Hut Pepperoni pizza with extra cheese? You bet. That'll be...four days.The weirdest month in pizza history continued this week when, to celebrate opening a location in Ta...

RoadshowCar IndustryAudi's pla ing for one new EV every year starting 2018Enlarge ImageI sure do hope that all of Audi's EVs have their charging ports hidden behind the four rings up front. Audi As I wrote earlier today, you can always rely on some interesting tidbits when automakers kick off shareh...

Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that's taken over our lives.Enlarge ImageIt looks romantic, doesn't it? Lancaster University You both swiped right.You exchanged at least 32 words by text.And now here you are, in a bar, wondering and hoping.Does she like you as much a...

Disney's research arm is working on robots that can mimic the moves of humans. Disney That Mickey Mouse greeting you at Disney World may one day contain a robot instead of a very petite person.Disney Research, an inte ational network of research labs to "push the scientific and technological forefro...

In addition to access to all of The Division's expansions, the game's $40 Season Pass gets you "special benefits" every month like free content. Now, May 2016's Season Pass extra content is available.As a ounced by Ubisoft on Twitter, up for grabs this month for Season Pass owners are a pair of weap...

Activision has released four new trailers for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutants in Manhattan, the upcoming action game from Bayonetta developer Platinum Games. Each of the videos focuses on one of the turtles, showing off their fighting styles and their 'tudes. Watch all the videos below. Teenag...

Pop star tu ed tech evangelist Will.i.am launches his i.am+ Dial watch with the help of some celebrity chums in London.

I think somehow I always knew that the first time I set foot in the hallowed halls of London's historic Royal Albert Hall it would be to see Will.i.am launch a smartwatch.Built in 1867, the storied Albert Hall was the venue on a balmy Wednesday night for the launch of the i.am+ Dial smartwatch. Excl...

Today during an ea ings call, Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot shared some new details on the upcoming Watch Dogs sequel. First, the executive teased that Watch Dogs 2 will have a "new tone," though he didn't expand on that point.On the subject of sales, Guillemot did not offer any specific unit projectio...

The lengthy court battle between Google and Oracle has taken an interesting tu . The Wall Street Jou al reports that Google's previous attempts to license Oracle's Java software may have just come home to roost.In court Wednesday, lawyers for Oracle said that judging from previous negotiations, Goog...

I've seen enough sci-fi shows to know that frightening things can lurk outside windows in space. In fiction, those things are usually aliens that want to eat you, but in real life there are different dangers out there in the dark expanse. European Space Agency astronaut Tim Peake tweeted a photo on ...

Enlarge ImageOne of the images the Hershey Company shared on Facebook seemed to show a candy dream come true. Hershey Company E.T., phone home. The cute little alien from the 1982 film loved Reese's Pieces peanut-butter candy, but he had no idea what was coming. The Hershey Company dropped some deli...