Enlarge ImageFormer EU digital czar Neelie Kroes will now speak up for Uber. Stephen Shankland/CNET Uber has recruited some heavyweight former lawmakers to help smooth the road between the ridesharing company and gove ments.The company has formed a new public policy advisory board including a former...

Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that's taken over our lives.Enlarge ImageA picture of the phone released by police. Alliance PD/Facebook screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET Don't think that technology makes everything easier for the authorities.After all, they might ...

[embedded content] With VR headsets like the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive just now hitting store shelves, we're quickly lea ing the potential of virtual reality. But it's not just consumers who are seeing what the nascent platform can do, but academics as well. A study from Oxford University has found t...

[embedded content]Who you go a call when you need to preview a new film? Not whoever cut the first Ghostbusters trailer, apparently.Released in early March, the short has become one of the most disliked videos on YouTube. Being viewed over 30 million times, it's ga ered 710,000-plus thumbs down from...

Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that's taken over our lives.Enlarge ImageA unified stab in the back? Hillary Clinton/Twitter screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET Donald Trump adores the immediacy and spontaneity of social media.He believes, indeed, that it's one of hi...

Enlarge Image DC Comics Between its highly regarded source material, strong cast and R-rating, the animated film adaptation of "Batman: The Killing Joke" has a lot of people excited. Fans of The Caped Crusader will get to see the flick starting on July 23, when Wa er Bros. Animation will release it ...

Enlarge Image Josh Miller/CNET Facebook a ounced last month that users could live stream videos over the social network. Now, after beefing up its team with a new editor-in-chief, the Twitter-owned Periscope is shaking up its iOS and Android apps.Periscope CEO Kayvon Beykpour said Wednesday (in a Pe...

[embedded content]If you're one of the increasing amount of people who's more about working from a cafe than an office, this Indigogo project will be of interest to you.The Lifepack is a spacious-looking backpack with two main distinguishing features: a removable solarbank USB charger, said to be ab...

Dance. Or dance not. There is no try. #MayThe4thBeWithYou https://t.co/9g1JUHV1n5— The White House (@WhiteHouse) May 5, 2016 "> When you're strong with the Force, you might as well show off your dance moves.To celebrate Star Wars Day on May the 4th, the White House posted this geektastic video of Pr...

Enlarge ImageArtist's concept of Planet Nine. Caltech/R. Hurt (IPAC) It's out there, in the dark. Something 10 times more massive than Earth and at least 10 times farther from the sun than Pluto, still within the solar system.If it's a planet, as gravitational evidence suggests, it just got even mor...

"Ugh. First they kill me, then they give me a man bun? What's next, eating bugs?!?" HBO Remember last year during the filming of "Game of Thrones," when everyone wanted actor Kit Harrington to get a haircut (or not) just to give us an answer to the big question about you know what? But then he did a...

Enlarge ImageSorry, but the KFC nail polish is only available in Hong Kong. KFC Some products make you think every company has a marketing employee whose job it is to think of the most oddball twist on the thing possible. You know the person. Never met a new product-idea meeting he didn't dominate. ...

RoadshowElectric CarsElon Musk says production deadline for Model 3 'impossible'Enlarge ImageTesla unveiled its prototype Model 3 in April, and CEO Elon Musk set a goal of July 1, 2017, to begin production. Tesla Motors, screenshot by Antuan Goodwin/Roadshow After setting a production deadline for t...

IBM is working hard in its quantum computing division, and now, it's allowing non-employees to sign up online for access to a 5-qubit quantum computing portal, where users will be able to create logical experiments for the machine to process. We're also fascinated (and grossed out) by Youtube user m...

It's a cloudy day in San Francisco, and I'm standing on the co er of 9th Avenue and Kirkham trying not to be blown over by the biting wind. A man named Randy hops out of the rented Chrysler and opens the minivan's trunk to reveal two large art portfolios, both containing four top-of-the-line Samsung...

RoadshowCar IndustryAutomakers to recall another 35 to 40 million Takata airbag inflatorsEnlarge ImageComponents of a Takata airbag sit on a bench before a US Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation hearing. Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Images Takata admitted to selling a whole bunch (over...

Enlarge Image MGM When you hear a new genus of Caribbean flowering plant has been named Jamesbondia, your mind only goes to one place. The spy who loved me, the man with the license to kill. Sean Co ery. Roger Moore. Daniel Craig.But the plant's new name isn't to honor old 007 after all. It harks ba...

[embedded content] You may not think of "Star Wars" and the hit musical "Hamilton" go together, but that's what the film director J.J. Abrams and composer Lin-Manuel Miranda have done. In an apparent surprise performance to guests waiting outside the New York theater where Hamilton is being performe...

Enlarge ImageJosh Brolin plays the bad guy Thanos in a teaser for "Avengers: Infinity War"...or whatever it'll be called. Marvel Is it Star Wars day? Let's talk about Marvel instead. This is a big week for the Avengers movie franchise as "Captain America: Civil War" heads to theaters following a wee...

RoadshowTrucksGM recalls 4,800 trucks and SUVs for poorly welded suspension components2016 Chevrolet Silverado Chevrolet When vital suspension components fail at speed, it can lead to catastrophic outcomes. That's why even smaller recalls involving the suspension should be taken seriously. This week...