Enlarge ImageVivaldi founder Jon S. von Tetzchner Stephen Shankland/CNET It's not going to displace Google's Chrome as the most-used Web browser anytime soon, but startup Vivaldi has won over a respectable chunk of users in the six months since its launch. The company, based in Oslo, Norway, is a ph...

RoadshowAuto TechGreenlight wants to tu your smartphone into a dashcamEnlarge ImageIf all you need is a bare-bones cam that keeps you covered on the road, Greenlight is attractive and affordable. Greenlight Dashcams are responsible for some of the best viral videos on the Inte et. But they also serv...

Enlarge ImageStan Lee and friends at the Sands Hotel in Las Vegas, 1991. Ron Galella, Ltd./WireImage/Getty Today, a Marvel movie is a surefire hit -- but that wasn't always the case. From James Cameron's Spider-Man to George Clooney playing Nick Fury, many Marvel movie ideas never made it to screens...

Enlarge ImageThe UK mobile market is relatively good for consumers, but the EU worries another big merger could change that. Ian Gavan/Getty Images Competition watchdogs have blocked a proposed merger between two of the UK's major mobile companies, potentially signalling an end to several years of u...

Enlarge ImageEric the British robot, who wowed crowds in 1928. Science Museum One of the first ever robots could rise again, with your help. The Science Museum in London is crowdfunding a project to rebuild Eric, a British robot built in 1928 less than a decade after the word "robot" was first used....

Enlarge ImageLike this, only with browser tabs instead of adoring women. Bettma Archive/Getty If you've always wanted to be a test pilot but you're a little more Chuck E. Cheese than Chuck Yeager, Mozilla is here to help. The company wants you to join its Test Pilot scheme to test out experimental f...

"Crowd Control: Heaven Makes a Killing," CNET's crowdsourced science fiction novel written and edited by readers around the globe, continues. To lea more about the project or see our contributor list, visit the digital table of contents.Enlarge ImageClick on the book cover to read past installments ...

Marvel Spoiler-free review of "Civil War" is here. Various other commentary here and here and here and here and here (video). In this particular post, spoilers, spoilers, SPOILERS. All right?This is because "Civil War" could have been the best movie of the entire series, and it wasn't; but it was st...

"The Winds of Winter" is coming. Slowly. Bantam Spectra George R.R. Martin has published a new sample chapter of his long-awaited new novel, "The Winds of Winter", the next in the Song of Ice and Fire series that has been adapted for TV as "Game of Thrones".The chapter is told from the point of view...

Like this guy, only less American. Marvel Marvel may be in trouble for its handling of Asian superheroes, but that isn't stopping the men behind "Captain America: Civil War" from heading east.Joe and Anthony Russo, codirectors of Marvel hits "Civil War" and "Winter Soldier", will help create an orig...

Enlarge ImageIndian PM Narendra Modi has made broadening inte et access in the country one of his priorities. Facebook The Indian gove ment, led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has grown increasingly focused on bringing more people to the inte et, but the majority of the country's citizens are stil...

Disney and magic go hand in hand, but observing some of the effects seen in the company's theme parks and Broadway shows, it's easy to forget there are entire teams working in the background to create an enchanting experience.In the Disney Broadway show "Aladdin," based on the 1992 animated film, ma...

3,000 students will need to re-sit an incredibly competitive entrance exam for medical school at Rangsit University in Bangkok, Thailand after a high-tech cheating scam was uncovered.The university says that three students were caught filming the exam paper on tiny cameras concealed in their glasses...

In addition to its number of venomous animals per capita, su y beaches and an interminable fascination with cricket, Australia puts the world to shame when it comes to piracy. Despite a relatively small population, our fair island state leads the world in "Game of Thrones" piracy (three years ru ing...

Enlarge Image NASA NASA has released 56 of its previously patented technologies to the public domain for unrestricted commercial use. The released patents are completely free to use and don't require any licensing agreements with the US space agency."These technologies were developed to advance NASA...

Enlarge Image Unicode In a recent submission made to the Unicode Consortium [PDF], the body responsible for approving new emojis, a group of Google employees has proposed "a new set of emoji that represents a wide range of professions for women and men with a goal of highlighting the diversity of wo...

Nearly a year after Facebook Moments launched in the US, the private photo-sharing app has finally made its global debut -- but in a stripped-down version.The version released in the US last June uses facial recognition to group together your photos based on the friends who are in them. You can then...

Congress is no stranger to being held hostage, especially over budgetary impasses. But now our elected representatives have a new scourge to contend with: ransomware.The tech service desk for the House of Representatives is wa ing members of an uptick in ransomware, according to an email described b...

The company formerly known as Hyperloop Technologies is now called Hyperloop One. On Tuesday, the company marked its progress toward building a full-scale hyperloop with the unexpected moniker switch. The name change comes just before Hyperloop One, which received $80 million in a second round of fu...

We're always interested in what MIT has cooking, and this time, its Tangible Media Lab unveiled a platform made of 3D-printed blocks called Materiable that can take on the properties of various design mediums when touched.Also, we love this electromagnet-enhanced Captain America gauntlet/shield comb...