EU Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager is determined to put consumers ahead of big companies. Thierry Tro el/Corbis The European Union's watchdog arm is as worried as ever that Google's preinstalled apps on Android phones sway consumers away from alte atives.Margrethe Vestager, the EU's comp...

The new Thunderbolt3 PCIe SSD exte al drive from Akitio. Akitio With the rapid adoption of the USB-C co ector, you might think Thunderbolt is yesterday's peripheral co ection. Not so! When it comes to speed, currently nothing beats it. Case in point: the new Thunderbolt 3 PCIe solid-state drive that...

Enlarge ImageThis Death Star speaker spins with music instead of destruction. Fancy If you're a Star Wars fan, music simply sounds better when cha eled through a Death Star speaker. Sure, there are already some pretty fancy speakers out there that employ the design of the Empire's most potent weapon...

Enlarge Image BSN 1997's "Batman and Robin" is known for many things. Being a good movie is not one of them.In one of its most cringe-worthy scenes, the Dynamic Duo participate in an auction for Poison Ivy. The Caped Crusader, played just this once by George Clooney, manages to win the auction (spla...

Not so sure about your privacy and security online? You're not alone.A recent survey commissioned by the Centre for Inte ational Gove ance I ovation (CIGI) reveals that 83 percent of people around the world believe that there is a need for new rules about how companies and gove ments use personal da...

Enlarge Image Sunstar Inc. We don't yet have a contraption that brushes our teeth for us (electric brushes definitely don't count), but a Japanese company just might have something that at least makes the whole process less of a chore.Dubbed G.U.M Play, it's a small device that fits on any toothbrus...

Joh y Depp and Amber Heard are hitting screens for the wrong reasons, after the Australian Gove ment forced them to publicly apologise for 'disrespecting' the law and compromising Australia's biosecurity.And all over a pair of Yorkshire terrier puppies. [embedded content] In what many on social medi...

LinkedIn's new app is focused on getting college kids employed. LinkedIn Graduation is coming. You're worried you wasted a lot of money on a fancy piece of paper because you'll never find a job. LinkedIn wants to calm your nerves.The professional social network on Monday will release an app dedicate...

Director James Cameron at a press conference for the original "Avatar." Imaginechina/Corbis What's better than a sequel no one has been asking for? Four sequels no one was asking for!A film once widely anticipated as a CGI game-changer, Avatar became a butt of Inte et humour when die-hard fans (incl...

Enlarge ImageThe flexible skin contains embedded OLEDs that can be used to monitor the wearer's health. University of Tokyo/Science Advances We're not quite at the level of watching entire TV shows in the palms of our hands, but blinky temporary tattoos may be a little closer. And not just for the s...

"60 Minutes" has demonstrated how hackers can use a simple phone number to spy on calls. "60 Minutes"/CBS News Security experts say breaking into an unencrypted smartphone is easier than you think -- and they've spied on a US Congressman's phone calls to prove it.German computer engineer Karsten Noh...

Seek.com Is this the worst IT job ad in the world or the best? An Australian recruitment company has put the call out for someone to do "meaningless, repetitive work on the .NET stack".Posted on the job-hunting website Seek, the ad from recruiters Just Digital People refuses to gild the lily on the ...

Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that's taken over our lives.A Briitsh Airways 320, similar to the one that was reportedly struck. FludusTV/YouTube screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET It was going to happen sometime.The only question was when.After reports of drones n...

Flatulence is a necessary part of being human. We all fart -- on average more than 10 times a day -- as a normal part of the digestive process. Some farts are caused by swallowing air while eating or drinking, while other farts are produced by certain foods such as beans, dairy products, onions, gar...

Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that's taken over our lives.He's one of Facebook's biggest stars, he says. © Porter Gifford/Corbis Donald Trump is suspicious that he might be denied the Republican presidential nomination because of so-called shenanigans.He doesn't be...

Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that's taken over our lives.She's going for the bucket, right? screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNEt At certain times of day, some companies' Twitter feeds are ma ed by curious types.Occasionally, companies tweet things that make one won...

I was game for this assignment. For weeks I'd been hearing about a technologically advanced bat that's designed to help baseball and softball players improve their swings. The Smart Bat, which hits the market soon, has a sensor integrated into the handle that measures your hand speed on a swing and ...

Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that's taken over our lives.They were there. Then they were gone. NJ State Police/Facebook screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET Burglars will burgle. But home owners will increasingly avail themselves of technology to protect their abod...

The world has been playing Super Mario Bros. on the Nintendo Entertainment System since 1985, and we're still not done playing with it. Even though all gamers who call themselves a "gamer" has beaten the classic NES platformer on multiple occasions, some with thumbs of steel have tried to reach a ne...

Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that's taken over our lives.Can he magically get rid of your second child for you? DirecTV screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET Cher wished she could tu back time.Jon Bon Jovi can.At least that's what he claims in a new DirecTV ad. A po...