Google Self-driving cars look to be in the pipeline for Apple, as the Silicon Valley tech titan is reportedly shopping for land to create facilities to develop and test autonomous vehicles.The plans were let slip on a call by Victor Coleman, the CEO of a San Francisco real estate firm, the Wall Stre...

Enlarge ImageWho are you calling scruffy-looking? Alden Ehrenreich is reported to be the actor who will go Solo. Jon Kopaloff/FilmMagic The most coveted role in the galaxy is edging closer to being cast. Disney is reported to have settled on "Hail Caesar" star Alden Ehrenreich to take on the role of...

Enlarge ImageGod bless Sir David Attenborough, and all who sail in her. National Environment Research Council Boaty McBoatface will take to the high seas after all -- in the form of a drone submarine.An official name has been a ounced for the British polar research vessel that was the subject of a p...

Apple Music is getting cheaper for young people. In a bid to compete with rivals Spotify and Google Music, Apple is offering half-price subscriptions to its streaming service for students.Students in the US, the UK, Australia, Germany Denmark and New Zealand will be able to make use of the discount,...

Subscribe to the Apple Byte Podcast:iTunes MP3 | RSS MP3 | FeedBu er MP3SoundCloud | Google Play | TuneIniTunes video | RSS video | FeedBu er videoYouTube | Livestream Listen to the Extra Crunchy Podcast, Ep. 35 Your browser does not support the audio element. [embedded content]Extra Crunchy show no...

A wallet like no other. Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment Congratulations to Stephanie M. of Bridgeport, Michigan, for wi ing a ThinkGeek May the Fourth bundle last week. Were you blown away by the Merc with the Mouth earlier this year? Well, here's your chance to own a piece of "Deadpool" ci...

A screenshot of the actual landing from SpaceX's web cast of its Falcon 9 launch. Screenshot by Aloysius Low/CNET Elon Musk's rocket company SpaceX has just completed a landing for its Falcon 9 rocket, which delivered a payload of a Japanese satellite into orbit earlier today. Like the last time, th...

[embedded content] Using your mind to control bionic arms are slowly becoming a thing, as this new development from Canada's Simon Fraser University shows. Researchers at the School of Engineering have developed a new system called M.A.S.S. Impact (Muscle Activity Sensor Strip) which uses an armband...

Marissa Mayer responds to criticism that she is setting a bad precedent for mate ity leave. Kimberly White, Getty Images for Fortune Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer, who gave birth to twins last year, says she is the exception to Yahoo's mate ity and pate ity leave schemes. Mayer has publicly stated that sh...

Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that's taken over our lives.Enlarge ImageIs that the face of a quitter? Team Coco screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET It was always likely to end this way.In the past, comedian Louis C.K. had complained that Twitter made him feel bad.B...

Mary Lou Jepsen is leaving Facebook and Oculus with the intention of using wearables to help cure diseases. YouTube Mary Lou Jepsen, a key figure in Facebook's virtual reality ambitions, is leaving the company after a little more than a year at the social-networking giant.Jepsen, who was the executi...

[embedded content] We all know that a lot of the face, mouth and throat are involved in producing sound, but it takes a video like this to demonstrate just how complex our vocalisations are. In it, you see baritone Michael Volle singing "O du, mein holder Abendste (O Thou, My Evening Star So Sweet)"...

You're going to have to get your $5 coffee and do your online shopping somewhere else: Seattle is as kaput as Alderaan. At least according to a new YouTube video that shows the hometown of Starbucks and Amazon blowing up after Luke Skywalker explodes its prime waterfront highway. The enormous tu el-...

Click on this image to be taken to the full infographic. RAD Campaign, Lincoln Park Strategies and craigco ects From Donald Trump GIFs to "Birdie Sanders" memes, your Facebook and Twitter feeds are no doubt full of opinions about the upcoming presidential election. But a new poll suggests, when it c...

Here's our weekly bullet list of topics on today's long episode. Enjoy!Headline Deep Dive: We discuss Magic Sky's beautiful drone "fireworks" show, Jet Capsule's floating house pod, and IBM's cloud-based quantum computing simulation. Guest: We welcome Managing Director of Inte et of Things Group at ...

The Karma experience will have to wait a bit longer. GoPro Drone fans awaiting the launch of GoPro's Karma will have to wait a bit longer.The aerial photography drone, which was expected to launch in the first half of 2016, won't land on retailers' shelves until the holiday shopping season, the comp...

The New York Times and Chef'd have partnered to provide meal kits that let you cook NYT recipes at home. Chef'd/New York Times When thinking about ways to save the media business, we sure didn't consider food delivery. But the New York Times did. The company on Thursday said it has partnered with El...

RoadshowCrossoversJunk in the trunk (supports): Nissan recalls 109,000 RoguesWhen your stays don't, er, stay, you've got trouble brewin'. Wayne Cu ingham/Roadshow Pressurized vehicle components always have a chance of injury when they go wrong. On Mercedes-Benz's super-old 600 sedan, if its complica...

Enlarge ImageBus: 1. Author Bob Sullivan's cell phone: 0.Bob SullivanTu s out it's possible to recover data from a phone that's been run over by a bus.Best-selling author and consumer advocate Bob Sullivan lea ed this the hard way this week when his Android phone, an HTC One swaddled in a strong Inc...

The newly opened Apple Museum claims to have "the most valuable and the most complex collection of computers from 1976 till 2012 and other Apple, Pixar and Next products." Apple Museum The best place to see Apple and Steve Jobs memorabilia may just be...Prague?That claim surprised us, too, but the n...