Enlarge Image C'estec If you've got a green thumb but no space to work your garden magic, a Japanese company might just have the thing to help quell your plant cultivation cravings.Named the "Foop" (short for food and people) and developed by a company called C'estec, the smart device, roughly the s...

Congratulations to Michael L. of Neptune, New Jersey, for wi ing a Ventev Powercell 10000+ portable battery pack last week. May the 4th, the Star Wars holiday, is fast approaching. You're digging in your closet for appropriate accessories and scouring your kitchen to come up with accouterments for y...

Ole Spata/Corbis Everyone's favourite 140-character micro-blogging platform is quietly setting off on a new course on the vast oceans of the Inte et, changing classification in the app store from "Social Networking" to "News."Rather than going up against the likes of Facebook, Skype and Facebook's s...

Jochen Eckel/Corbis The gove ment wants to get more and more information out of Facebook, but they don't want you to know about it.The social network's latest Global Gove ment Requests Report, released today, has documented a 13 percent rise in gove ment requests for Facebook user data in the second...

Enlarge ImageAlicia Vikander in 2015's Ex Machina. Universal Pictures Lara Croft has made a comeback on the video game front in recent years, and now she's a step closer to hitting the silver screen once again.On Thursday, it was revealed that Swedish actress Alicia Vikander will be playing the icon...

Enlarge Image Rian Johnson Maybe two black-and-white set photos from "Star Wars: Episode VIII" isn't enough to get you champing at the bit. But the news that the cast and crew are halfway through filming just might. Director Rian Johnson celebrated the milestone by releasing a couple of arty set pho...

US Air Force Secretary Deborah Lee James traveled to Silicon Valley this week in search of tech for secure communications and improved cybersecurity. Jim Varhegyi/courtesy of the US Air Force The US gove ment doesn't want terrorists to use encryption, but its military sure wants to have it.The US Ai...

[embedded content]"Game of Thrones" fans have made a lot of demands to the creators of their favorite show, but one item that's been very low on the totem pole involves updating the show's theme song. There's nothing wrong with the iconic theme written by composer Ramin Djawadi for the show's sweepi...

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Here's our weekly bullet list of topics on today's long episode. Enjoy!Headline Deep Dive: We discuss Gum Play and if everything should/shouldn't be part of the Inte et of Things; brain drone racing and how it might help disabled people control devices; and why autonomous plant spheres are kind of c...

The US Supreme Court approved on Thursday a rule change that would make it easier for the Department of Justice to obtain warrants for electronic devices. The change lets US judges issue search warrants for computers and other electronic devices located in any jurisdiction, not just their own. The J...

Hoverbikes are complex machines that require a great deal of engineering knowledge and conce for comfort and safety. However, that didn't stop YouTube's most insane inventor, Colin Furze, from building one in his work shed. Furze unveiled a working prototype for his homemade hoverbike in a video on ...

Snapchat's chatty users like video.Roughly 10 billion videos are viewed on Snapchat, the ephemeral-photo app that's becoming a media platform, up a quarter from February, according to the same-named company behind the app. Snapchat is using the data, which was earlier reported by Bloomberg, to show ...

Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that's taken over our lives.The distraught couple. Daily Mail screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET One of the great business sleights-of-hand was when airlines and hotel groups got us to book online.It seemed so simple and convenient. U...

Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that's taken over our lives.Jose dos Santos, CEO of Cell C. ANN7/YouTube screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET There seems to be a lot of conversation currently about politicians playing "the woman card."I fear, however, there isn't enou...

Forza 6 Apex Edition, the first Forza game ever for PC, will arrive on Windows 10 machines on May 5, Microsoft a ounced today. That's the day when the game's open beta begins, not the full release.In a post on Xbox Wire, Microsoft said the Apex Edition's beta release, though an unfinished version of...

Jeff Bezos isn't shy about spending, but Amazon still posted its most-profitable quarter yet. EPA/Corbis Amazon, a company known for spending like a drunken sailor, appears to have sobered up. At least for now.The world's largest online retailer on Thursday reported unexpectedly strong sales and ea ...

Google Glass has a new home. Sarah Tew/CNET Google wants you to buy more of its devices.To get you to do that, the search giant is shaking up the way it runs its hardware business. Google is bringing all of its disparate devices, from its Nexus smartphones to its Chromecast streaming sticks, togethe...

Enlarge ImageIn the latest Humble Book Bundle, stock up on books about hacking, security, malware, Python and more. Humble Bundle Ever wanted to hack an Xbox? Or perhaps you have a desire to lea how to generate your own electricity? Does creating your own surveillance system from scratch seem like a...

Tablets with detachable keyboards are growing in popularity. CNET Tablets as a whole have lost much of their appeal, but the ones that come with detachable keyboards are catching on with consumers. For the first quarter of 2016, overall worldwide tablet shipments fell to 39.6 million, a 14.7 percent...