The Dark Souls board game makes Kickstarting look easy - CNET
Enlarge ImageA work-in-progress shot of Dark Souls: The Board Game. Steamforged Games A board game based on the immensely popular (and punishingly difficult) Dark Souls video game series hit Kickstarter on Wednesday. The officially licensed tabletop game reached its £50,000 funding goal in three min...
ISIS-destroyed monument rebuilt with 3D technology - CNET
Enlarge ImageArtistic render of the Monumental Arch standing in London's Trafalgar Square. Institute of Digital Archaeology It lasted nearly 2,000 years. Erected sometime in the late second to early third century AD, the Monumental Arch of Palmyra in Syria is thought to have been built to commemorat...
It's Nerf or nothing in this Team Fortress parody - CNET
Guns and video games go together like Romeo and Juliet. They were always meant to be together even though it feels like the whole world is trying to rip them apart. So what would it look like if a game franchise that uses a ton of deadly weapons tried to tone down the mayhem with some less dangerous...
Utah governor declares porn a health hazard - CNET
Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that's taken over our lives.Enlarge ImageOnce VR po is ubiquitous, will Utah's attempts at controlling it be a lost cause? CNET I fancy you have your personal habits and quirks. I fancy, too, that you wouldn't think too many of them co...
Apple: We never gave our source code to China - CNET
Apple General Counsel Bruce Sewell Yin Bogu/Xinhua Press/Corbis No way. That's what Apple told the Chinese gove ment when asked to hand over source code for its products, according to Bruce Sewell, general counsel for the consumer-electronics giant. During congressional testimony on Tuesday, Sewell ...
Yahoo 'for sale' sign looms over earnings - CNET
Yahoo is exploring a sale of its Inte et business. Chris Farina/Corbis This is a story about Yahoo's first-quarter ea ings. But it's not really. The Inte et giant slightly beat Wall Street's expectations when it a ounced its financial results Tuesday. The problem is that nobody cares much about thos...
Ceres' fantastical craters pop in new NASA images - CNET
Enlarge ImageThe Haulani Crater has a jagged edge. NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA Dwarf planet Ceres rocketed to stardom when NASA images showed mysterious bright spots on its surface. Now we have some fabulous close-ups of Ceres' delightful crater collection. NASA released several new images on ...
Apple, FBI continue encryption battle before Congress - CNET
The iPhone 5C was at the center of a legal battle between Apple and US Department of Justice. CNET Encryption protects our privacy and stops hackers, but it also hides criminals and terrorists. So, what should we do? That was the question the House Energy and Commerce Committee asked the Federal Bur...