The venerable hoodie is an all-purpose wardrobe item. It protects your head, gives you pockets for your hands and gear, and zips up and down to accommodate changes in temperature. That doesn't mean it has to be boring. Check out these unusual, nutty and downright weird hoodies.Feeling fuzzy? Slip in...

eBay wants to make it easier to sell your stuff. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Need to sell a set of golf clubs? Just go to a FedEx Office.eBay on Tuesday said it significantly broadened a partnership with FedEx to bring eBay Valet drop-off locations to over 1,600 FedEx Office stores nationwide. The ...

If you've played 2012's stealth-action game Dishonored, chances are you're already pretty excited for the sequel. And if you haven't played it, well, you should be excited anyway. Read on to lea why Dishonored 2 is such an anticipated game. For readers in Australia and the UK, we apologise for the s...

A 15-year-old has been credited with discovering a lost Mayan city, buried deep in the Mexican jungle.Québécois teen William Gadoury hunted down the lost settlement by looking at 22 Mayan constellations, Yahoo News reports, citing the French-language Jou al De Montréal. Gadoury then reportedly compa...

"Breaking Bad" star Bryan Cranston is set to star in a 10-part sci-fi series, based on the stories of celebrated sci-fi visionary Philip K. Dick.The Oscar-nominated actor will also serve as executive producer on the series. UK broadcaster Cha el 4 is partnering with Sony Pictures Television on the p...

Definitive Technology has unveiled a full line of flagship speakers which are designed to cope with the latest "object-based" soundtracks for home theater.The new collection consists of four floorstanders which include the BP9020 ($1300/pair), BP9040 ($1800/pair), BP9060 ($2200/pair) and flagship BP...

Enlarge ImageMany still hate the word "moist," despite cake-mix-makers' best efforts. Gael Cooper/CNET Oh, lil' Pillsbury Doughboy. You tried. You tried to make "moist" an acceptable word, redolent of mouthwatering chocolate cakes and melty brownies. You failed. Article after article has noted that ...

Uber has expanded its wheelchair-friendly fleet to London, giving disabled customers the power to call a car that features a rear-entry ramp, winch and restraints.The popular cab-calling app, which has proved controversial in the UK, inciting protests from traditional black cabs, has already brought...

"Crowd Control: Heaven Makes a Killing," CNET's crowdsourced science fiction novel written and edited by readers, continues. To get caught up on part 1, lea more about the project or see our contributor list, visit the digital table of contents.Chapter 1, continuedExcerpted from "Meta: The Life of a...

Cara Theobold's first acting role was playing Ivy Stuart in "Downton Abbey." Getty/Karwai Tang, WireImage Yet more new British comedy is soon to go global on Netflix. Following the release of Ricky Gervais' "Special Correspondents", the popular movie and TV streaming service will serve up a new horr...

Corvo Attano retu s, as does the Priness Emily Kaldwin, when the sequel to 2012's Dishonored lands on November 11, 2016.

Enlarge ImageThe resemblance is unca y. James Devaney/Getty; Dr Buntika A. Butcher It's not uncommon to name new species after people. It's usually a scientist, but sometimes celebrities get a look-in too, as in the case of the newly discovered Conobregma bradpitti. This tiny species of parasitoid w...

Facebook has made a public a ouncement that anonymous claims accusing the social network of deliberately leaving conservative websites out of its "trending topics" box are untrue. In a post to Facebook, vice president of search Tom Stocky wrote, "We take these reports extremely seriously, and have f...

[embedded content] If Donkey Kong player Wes Copeland is to be believed, the decades-long battle for the title King of Kong, the best Donkey Kong player in the world, is now over. Either way, though, Copeland's achievement is to be lauded: On May 5, he broke the world Donkey Kong score record (which...

[embedded content] It's called, appropriately, the Painsaw, and it's like no chainsaw you have ever seen before. Instead of chopping stuff, it runs the DooM video games, playable with an Xbox 360 controller. Its creator is web designer George Merlocco, AKA scar45, and he built the Painsaw by gutting...

Enlarge ImageVB Mario Land converted to grayscale and emulated. The-King-of-Spain Nintendo has always been a bit more of an experimenter than the other console developers out there, but the 1995 3D virtual reality console called the Virtual Boy was probably a bit ahead of its time -- and a bit ahead...

[embedded content] There's something unsettling about watching AquaSonic perform. Each of the band's five members is submerged in an aquarium, and the sound is produced from entirely under water. And it's eerie, too. The water changes the sound, making it fey and strange, the sounds of mermaids.The ...

[embedded content] MIT's Tangible Media Group has been working for some time on a shape-changing interface that allows users to manipulate data and run simulations based on digital input. Following on from InForm, a dynamic display that uses a Kinect camera to simulate a the arms of a user in a diff...

[embedded content] You, too, can ride on a rocket as it makes its way back to Earth, courtesy of a video shot from a camera on board a Blue Origin booster. Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is working on a reusable rocket to send shuttles to space, a move that will help reduce launch costs. His Blue Origin ...

A Luxe driver was involved in a fatal traffic accident in San Francisco last month, three weeks after the fast-growing, on-demand valet service secured $50 million in financing to expand to new cities, CNET has lea ed.The valet was driving a Jeep SUV on one of the city's main thoroughfares April 27 ...