The hairy-footed hobbits of J.R.R. Tolkien go up against the death-and-sex drama of George R.R. Martin in an insult-filled rap song that takes no prisoners. It's suspenders versus tweed and no author will emerge unscathed. The epic fantasy series "Lord of the Rings" and "Game of Thrones" butt heads ...

The ReAnima Project, a project that will attempt to regenerate parts of the nervous system for 20 brain-dead patients on life support, has just been approved by an Institutional Review Board at the National Institutes of Health in the US and in India, according to the Telegraph. The company behind t...

Enlarge Image"Alexa, where's my wallet?" Sarah Tew/CNET So you've misplaced your wallet or your keys once again. Soon, Amazon's Alexa voice assistant may be able to help you unearth them.Launched last June, Amazon Echo is a wireless speaker that does your bidding through the built-in Alexa voice ass...

Josh Miller/CNET Time has released its list of the 50 most influential gadgets of all time, and topping the list is the Apple iPhone. Although the article notes that smart phones existed for years before the iPhone's initial release in 2007, it says, "None came together as accessibly and beautifully...

CNET This mo ing, Twitter's stocks dropped to $13.90, the lowest they've been since the company went public in 2013. This comes after Twitter missed its revenue target for the first quarter of 2016, and it follows what some are calling a negative patte for Twitter.A few months ago, Joshua Topolsky w...

If you have an Apple iPhone 5, 5C, 5S, 6, 6 Plus, 6S or 6S Plus with a broken screen or battery, the satellite and broadcast company, Dish Network, can now send over a technician to your house and fix your handset.Available to all 50 states in the US, Dish's Smart Phone Repair Service offers same-da...

Stars and execs at the Netflix Event in Paris including Katherine McNamara, Claire Foy, Joaquim Dos Santos, Tituss Burgess, Margie Cohn, Michelle Yeoh and Ted Sarandos. Fred Rambaud/Netflix Netflix is the ready replacement of traditional TV, according to Netflix subscribers in a recent survey. Their...

Enlarge ImageIt looks like Radiohead's Thom Yorke is just teasing a new album. Just, get it? Peter Wafzig/Redfe s/Getty Images Radiohead took a cue from one of their songs over the weekend and showed us how to disappear completely. But the band's Web presence was not in limbo for long.Fans may have ...

Enlarge ImagePop princess Miley Cyrus launched her Dead Petz album on Soundcloud, but most of the service's catalogue is made up of lesser-known acts. Kevin Winter/Getty Images SoundCloud Go has launched in the UK and Ireland, the first country to enjoy the paid version of the music streaming servic...

CNET Chinese Uber customers will now be able to pay for their Uber rides in local currency yuan, no matter where they are, thanks to a deal between the ride-sharing company and online payment platform Alipay. According to a Reuters report, Uber payment via Alipay will be available in over 400 cities...

Unless you're someone who hates fun, you're probably going to get a kick out of the adorable video Disney just released for May the Fourth (AKA Star Wars Day). It more or less retells the story of "Star Wars: Episode VII -- The Force Awakens" with the official Star Wars emojis.Obviously, since the f...

Enlarge Image Qantas A flight headed to Perth, Australia from Melbou e was grounded for two hours on Saturday after a flier caused a scare by naming his personal Wi-Fi hotspot "mobile detonation device". Passengers were told the Qantas aircraft wouldn't take flight until the dangerous device was loc...

Enlarge Image Uber Uber has just settled class-action suits in Massachusetts and Califo ia, and now the company is facing similar suits from Uber drivers in all other states across America. The suit, which was filed on Sunday with the US District Court for the Northe District of Illinois, seeks to r...

The deepest region of our planet is, obviously, really hard to get to. The Mariana Trench reaches a maximum depth of nearly 11 kilometres (6.8 miles) that we know of. So there's potentially a lot down there that we haven't discovered or seen yet.This little guy, identified by NOAA scientists as a je...

Do you like the idea of fast-paced team shooter video games but hate having to become a master of precision aiming skills? Overwatch is for you.Blizzard's first new game franchise in almost two decades (since launching Starcraft in 1998) goes live this week, with an open beta giving everyone a chanc...

Enlarge Image USPTO Other smart contact lenses are focused on improving vision or providing an augmented reality HUD, but Sony wants to look outwards rather than in. A new patent, awarded to the company in April, describes a contact lens that can be controlled by the user's deliberate blinks, record...

Enlarge Image University of Pe sylvania School of Veterinary Medicine It's called Equimagine, and it could hugely increase what we know about how horses work. Rather than requiring an animal to be sedated and immobilised, this new CT sca er developed by the University of Pe sylvania School of Veteri...

Please comment on all of my social accounts b/c my dress will react to your emotions! #MetGala@IBM@MarchesaFashionpic.twitter.com/CXUKcVd8Hm— Karolina Kurkova (@karolinakurkova) May 2, 2016At the New York Met Gala, the theme is Manus x Machina, and technology is hitting the red carpet. Model Karolin...

Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that's taken over our lives.Sex? In this little thing? Google You're rolling on down the highway.Suddenly, you see the windows of an adjacent car rolling down its windows.Then you see why. The occupants need air. They also need space. ...

The first Monday in May brings one of the marquee fashion events of the year -- the Met Gala. Held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City as a benefit for the museum's Costume Institute, this year's gala comes with an unexpected high-tech twist. The theme of the evening, and the accompan...