RoadshowCar IndustryWhat a drag: Roof racks wasted 100 million gallons of gas last yearEnlarge ImageDon't worry, your adventure-forum buddies won't mock you (too badly) for taking off the rack in favor of superior fuel economy. Transtock/Corbis If you live anywhere near a dirt road or a Subaru deale...

If you want to construct a giant Lego Star Destroyer, you might as well give your Star Wars minifigures a home they deserve. Imgur user Doomhandle built a Star Destroyer named ISD Tyrant so magnificent it houses three levels, including a hangar bay, a command bridge, a conference room, a captain's c...

Google Cardboard is a cheap and simple way to experience virtual realty with a smartphone. Sarah Tew/CNET The New York Times and Google are teaming up once again to provide select subscribers with Google Cardboard headsets. The newspaper said Thursday it will provide 300,000 of the VR headsets to it...

Enlarge ImageHere's just a taste of the larger panorama. NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS So, you want to go to Mars. Well, you can't. At least not yet. In the meantime, content yourself with stepping into a 360-degree panorama stitched together from images taken by NASA's Curiosity rover. You won't have to de...

Enlarge ImageConsumers in India may soon be able to shop at an Apple Store. Sarah Tew/CNET Apple might soon open the doors to its first retail outlets in India.In its quest to set up shop in the world's third biggest smartphone market, Apple made a presentation on April 19 to a committee led by Indi...

Screenshot by Dan Graziano/CNET Valve is giving you a new way to pay for your games and software. The company has partnered with processing service BitPay to begin accepting bitcoin on its Steam service. The partnership is aimed at inte ational users that may not have access to traditional payment o...

Sarah Tew/CNET Fitbit, the company behind the world's most popular wearable devices, may have big plans for the remaining months of 2016. So far this year, the San Francisco-based company has already released two new trackers: The Fitbit Blaze smartwatch arrived in March for $200, followed by the Fi...

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Enlarge ImageGlow is helping parents navigate their way through their baby's first year. Glow Apple's new health app array could keep the doctor away. The technology titan on Thursday released the first set of CareKit apps, all of which are designed to help people manage medical conditions. The four...

Enlarge ImageA British Airways Airbus A320 just before landing at Heathrow. Kent German/CNET A passenger plane coming in to land over London probably wasn't hit by a drone, as initially thought by police.UK Transport Secretary Patrick McLoughlin said that upon investigation, the incident on 17 April...

Dreamworks Animation NBCUniversal, a division of Philadelphia-based cable giant Comcast, on Thursday a ounced that it would acquire DreamWorks Animation for $3.8 billion. The animation studio, which is behind major film franchises such as Shrek, Madagascar and Kung Fu Panda, will become part of the ...

In Japanese, the term "karoshi" means "death by overwork." Moodboard/Corbis Workplace stress has existed as long as workplaces have. A Japanese company hopes a newfangled computer mouse will combat that drag on employee well-being. Unveiled at the MedTec convention in Tokyo last week, Alps Electric'...

Enlarge ImageJohn Boyega goes from BB-8 to bu ies in "Watership Down". LAN/Corbis A whole generation of British kids was emotionally scarred by the 1978 animated film "Watership Down", and now the BBC and Netflix is pla ing a new version that hooks in young viewers with Star Wars star John Boyega.In...

Enlarge ImageThere's a lot happening at Facebook these days. James Martin/CNET Facebook's history is already the stuff of Silicon Valley legend: CEO Mark Zuckerberg dropped out of college to start it, the social network rebuffed acquisition attempts, and it's become one of the most influential compa...

Enlarge ImageUber drivers don't want to wait around, they want to hit the road. Uber You may soon have 2 minutes to jump into your waiting Uber instead of a more leisurely 5, as the ridesharing company experiments with a shorter waiting window.Currently, an Uber driver will wait for you for 5 minute...

Enlarge Image Moodboard/Corbis Workplace stress has existed as long as workplaces have. A Japanese company hopes a new-fangled computer mouse will combat that drag on employee well-being. Unveiled at the MedTec convention in Tokyo last week, Alps Electric's mouse contains sensors that monitor the us...

Enlarge ImageJohn Boyega goes from BB-8 to bu ies in "Watership Down". LAN/Corbis A whole generation of British kids was emotionally scarred by the 1978 animated film "Watership Down", and now the BBC and Netflix is pla ing a new version.In their biggest collaboration to date, the UK broadcaster and...

A printed map using Touchable Ink. JWT Researchers at Thammasat University in Thailand have created something that will potentially make it a lot cheaper for the blind to read. Called Touchable Ink, this new ink has the ability to rise when heated, tu ing what would normally be a flat row of printed...

Enlarge ImageCNET is on Snapchat as "CNETsnaps"! CNET The UK gove ment has spent £70,000 (about $100,000 or AU$134,000) on Snapchat filters.The filter -- which puts prison-style bars over a picture -- wasn't wasted in sending fu y messages between civil servants, however. Images with the filter were...

Enlarge Image Andrew Hoyle/CNET In 2015, we were treated to two Google Nexus devices in the LG made 5X and Huawei's 6P. Rumours are now circulating that 2016 will also see two Nexus smartphones, this time both made by HTC.Evleaks, real name Evan Blass, has a history of leaking accurate information a...