Wayfair has tu ed itself into a go-to place to buy big and bulky home fu ishings online. But, what if you don't know how to install that remote-controlled ceiling fan or put together that 60-inch double bathroom vanity piece?Hoping to make it easier for folks to do home renovations using the Web, th...

T-Mobile is pushing out Marshmallow for a couple of key Samsung devices. Google T-Mobile subscribers with a Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge+ or Galaxy Note 5 can finally bite into the latest flavor of Android.On Monday, the carrier a ounced it will roll out Android 6.0.1 Marshmallow to the two Samsung device...

Digital messaging application Viber just a ounced it will provide complete privacy by encrypting all of its associated communication. This includes hiding chats and discrete deletion of messages between users.The company made the a ouncement via its corporate blog. Keep in mind these private capabil...

Uber's challenge to French laws may prove successful. Uber The European Commission is reportedly readying itself to challenge French taxi laws following a complaint from ride-hailing service Uber.A formal notice is set to be issued by the Commission, which will point out that the national law in Fra...

Bill Gates supports Microsoft, which is suing the US gove ment. Bloomberg/Screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates on Monday expressed his support for the company's wish to inform customers about gove ment requests for their data.Despite not being an "absolutist," Gates sa...

Apple's spat with the FBI is not representative of how many national security requests it complies with. James Martin/CNET US law enforcement asked Apple for information 4,000 times, covering 16,112 devices, in the second half of 2015. Apple complied with 80 percent of the requests, according to the...

Enlarge ImageThe Denon HEOS range. All but the HEOS Cinema (top) are due for new Bluetooth and hi-res versions. Denon Denon has a ounced it's refreshing its line of HEOS wireless audio products, differentiated by the HS2 specification, and which now includes features such as Bluetooth and hi-res aud...

Spoiler alert: If you are yet to watch the Season 5 finale of "Game of Thrones" and have also managed to avoid a year of headlines about the fate of one particular character, read on at your own peril.For the rest of us, we've been subject to months of speculation that Jon Snow may not be completely...

Legion, the sixth expansion to massively multiplayer online role-playing game World of Warcraft, is due to drop on August 30, developer Blizzard has a ounced. It will see Alliance and Horde alike fighting the vast army of demons known as the Bu ing Legion as they retu for a third attack on the so-fa...

DARPA's dream of a vertical-take-off-and-landing air vehicle is getting closer to fruition, with the first successful flight of a 24-rotor aircraft. Aurora Flight Sciences, which was awarded the Phase 2 contract for the X-Plane program in March this year, successfully flew a subscale model of their ...

A fan thinks Kanye West dissed him and is fighting back with a lawsuit.Justin Baker-Rhett is suing the hip hop star on claims West lied when he said his album, "The Life of Pablo," would be available only on the streaming service Tidal, according to the proposed class-action suit filed Monday in US ...

The upgraded specs according to Giant Bomb. Giant Bomb Whispers of an upgraded "PlayStation 4.5" began earlier this year, but now firm details are emerging, with the gaming website Giant Bomb citing u amed sources and a leaked inte al document for an upgrade that includes processing, graphics and me...

Autonomous underwater vehicles are opening up the aquatic domains in more detail than ever before. However, current drone technology is still limited in a few ways, one of which is size, shape and flexibility. With a swimming snake robot, Norwegian engineering company Kongsberg Maritime believes, we...

You know, some people have been hurt in love. It's OK. Maybe those people will consider $1,750 (around about AU$2,250 or £1,220) a small price to pay for peace of mind.That's how much Spanish company Durmet is asking for the Smarttress, a smart mattress with a built-in "Lover Detection System" (yes,...

Childhood is full of tough choices. There are decisions that kids have to make that could affect the rest of their lives like whether or not they should stand up to the neighborhood bully or deciding if they should lea how to tie their shoes or hope they still make pairs with Velcro straps when they...

Randy Faris/Corbis The US Supreme Court refused to hear a challenge from a group of authors who claim Google Books violates their copyright. The New York-based trade group The Authors' Guild and several individual authors have been fighting Google Books since 2005, when it first brought the matter t...

Federal prosecutors and the US Securities and Exchange Commission have launched criminal and civil investigations into whether blood-testing firm Theranos misled investors about the state of its product. Subpoenas regarding the startup have been sent to Walgreens Boots Alliance and the New York Stat...

Are you too busy to duck outside and check your laundry? Australian laundry detergent brand OMO is developing a smart clothespeg called Peggy embedded with a bunch of sensors that monitor the weather and your laundry.Thermometers inside the peg monitor the temperature, and a humidity sensor keeps tr...

Enlarge ImageMale southe grasshopper mouse shouting, mouse-style. Michael & Patricia Fogden/CORBIS Mice don't stutter like people do, but by tweaking a gene, scientists have created mice that have the mouse equivalent of the human stutter, and they're using it to understand why we do."Speech is obvi...

We're very intrigued by the news "The Twilight Zone" will be getting a reboot that includes an interactive element for viewers. The fact that "Bioshock" creator Ken Levine will write and direct the pilot is just icing on the cake.We also take a quick look at an e-skin design with an OLED display emb...