As the homogenization of social media continues, Twitter followed in Snapchat's wake by adding the ability to apply stickers with embedded hashtags. Now the business justification emerges: brands will be able to offer stickers with their own built-in hashtags so that you can promote for them and all...

iPads for one and all! CNET At this point in the 21st century, it's safe to assume that the a ual cycle of new Apple products is as regular as the progression of the lunar calendar.A report released on Monday and spotted by MacRumors has given us a glimpse of what to expect from the tech giant in bo...

Pekka Rantala, the new chief marketing officer for HMD Global. Rantala formerly ran Rovio and worked at Nokia. HMD Global The pieces are slowly coming together for the Nokia phone to make its comeback.In May, Microsoft unloaded the phone business it originally purchased from Nokia on FIH Mobile, a u...

Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that's taken over our lives.Enlarge ImageIs this the hell of an IT manager? BigPanda Are all the notifications getting to you?Does your phone buzz, ping and ding with far too many deeply unimportant messages?Imagine, then, you work in ...

Apple's Tim Cook tells The Washington Post about the "lonely" job of CEO. The Washingont Post/Screenshot by CNET For those of you who hold onto every word Tim Cook says, The Washington Post has about 10,000 to offer.Apple's CEO sat down with the Post for what it termed two "sprawling and highly self...

Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that's taken over our lives.Enlarge ImageIn the interests of justice? screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET I don't know whether you've heard, but there's no need to vote.The election is apparently going to rigged. At least that's what R...

Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that's taken over our lives.Enlarge ImageNot well balanced? WPVI-TV screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET Outrage can often be pointless.The best we can do is at least grab our phones, record what is happening and hope that someone else ...

Enlarge ImageThe first stage of the Falcon 9 rocket successfully lands on the "Of Course I Still Love You" drone ship stationed about 370 miles east of Cape Canaveral. SpaceX A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket boosted a Japanese communications satellite into orbit early Sunday, lighting up the deep ove ight s...

Enlarge ImageArvind Krishna, a senior vice president at IBM Research Stephen Shankland/CNET Bitcoin has a bad rap as the preferred currency of drug dealers. But that isn't stopping IBM and some of the world's most conservative businesses from tapping into its technological underpi ings. Specifically...

More than 6,000 people fled war and slogged across a continent to get to a refugee camp in northe France. Now they endure political hostility in a place they don't want to be. Sudanese, Afghans, Chadians, Syrians, Iraqis, Iranians and others live in a Calais camp known as the Jungle, and another in ...

We've lost R2. Actor Ke y Baker, aka lovable droid R2-D2, in the '70s. Getty Images Ke y Baker, the man who brought the much-loved R2-D2 droid to life in the Star Wars films, passed away at the age of 81 following a long period of illness. Baker's death was reported by The Guardian on Saturday, with...

The Democrats have been dogged by hacking and leaks during the presidential campaign. This past week was no exception. Erwin Wodicka/Getty Images The Democratic Party's hacking woes continued this week, as personal phone numbers and email addresses of US Congress members wound up on the inte et. A p...

Photographer Adam Pretty isn't scared to go to extreme depths to get his shot. At the Olympics, his cameras are, too.The Getty Images photographer is capturing some of the most memorable moments of the Rio Games' swimming competition by using robotic cameras secured to the floor of the Olympic pool....

In Calais, three refugee camps were designed with very different ideas in mind. They each have their own unique problems.

Cseh was trying to keep pace with fellow competitors like US swimmer Michael Phelps, the Olympian who has won the most gold medals ever (22 and counting). Phelps won the 200-meter butterfly by just .04 of a second -- the closest margin of victory in history. "He led the whole way, but guys were chas...

In other words, don't be a jerk. Other signs said men had to wear pants, and women had to be in skirts. Most men were in shorts (it was over 90f/30c) and that seemed fine. Women, however, were asked to put on shawls (available for free at the entrance) and either fashion a skirt or shawl depending o...

Close Facebook's newest ad-blocking tactic defeats Adblock Plus' workaround Drag That was quick. Just two days after Facebook found a way to sneak ads past ad-blocking software, the ad blockers have struck back. Adblock Plus, one of the best-known tools for blocking ads on the inte et, claims to hav...

Sonos will share its vision of "the future of sound" at a media event on August 30 in New York. While no new hardware is expected, the event will likely outline additional functionality for the company's existing line of wireless audio products -- including the Play:5, which was introduced in 2015. ...

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RoadshowNewsCar CultureSomebody needs to check on Carfection: Our week on InstagramSome weeks are busier than others. For some of us, this wasn't a very busy week -- well, "not busy" in the sense of interesting things that can be shown off on Instagram. Some intro paragraphs for Instagram posts are ...