Sony's headquarters in Tokyo is revealing. Katie Collins / CNET Deep inside Sony HQ in the Minato district of Tokyo, there's a secret room jammed full of the company's top technology. It's part theme park and part walk-in safe.The two sets of doors are usually firmly closed to outsiders, as well as ...

Enlarge ImageKids can explore this virtual version of "The Pool of London," a 1906 painting by André Derain, rendered in Minecraft's blocky world through a project at the UK's Tate galleries. Tate Minecraft is already a hit at schools. Now Microsoft plans to release a version of its blocky video gam...

Enlarge Image Rachio Congratulations to Megan B. of Midland, Michigan, for wi ing a DJI Phantom accessory from Drone World last week.The 16-zone, weatherproof Rachio Smart Sprinkler Controller replaces the existing controller for your sprinklers and co ects them to your Wi-Fi. From there, the contro...

Enlarge ImageThe iPhone's App Store will be greener than usual until April 24. Screenshot by Daniel Van Boom/CNET If you use an iPhone or iPad, you may have noticed the Apple App Store is looking a little greener than usual. Apple's fresh hue is due to "Apps for Earth," a partnership with the World ...

Football fans flocking to Twitter to see free live streaming of National Football League games on Thursday nights this season will see star quarterbacks Cam Newton, Tom Brady and Russell Wilson, but not too many big-time battles. While the social network will air the NFL's most storied rivalry when ...

Enlarge ImageThe prop Nessie that appears in 1970's "The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes." Kongsberg Maritime A new survey has found the Loch Ness monster.Well, sort of. It found a nine-metre Nessie prop that had been used in the 1970 film "The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes" languishing on the lak...

The sinking of the Titanic is being tweeted out in real time, 104 years after it happened. Image by Claire Reilly/CNET We all know how the story of the Titanic starts and ends. The ship that was too big to fail sets sail on her maiden voyage with 2,224 souls on board. And in the wee hours of the mo ...

If you're a Windows PC user who uses Apple's QuickTime video player, you might want to think about uninstalling it. That is the advice of the Department of Homeland Security's United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team, or US-CERT, after two new bugs were discovered in the software.Security sof...

It seems like comic book movies are becoming the next great American commodity, along with Donald Trump GIFs and ballpark concessions that qualify as weapons of mass destruction. They are so prevalent in our lives that you might not be surprised if people could name more superheroes than US presiden...

The encryption battle between Apple and the FBI is moving from the courtroom to Congress next week.Representatives from the tech titan and the federal law enforcement agency are scheduled to testify Tuesday before the House Energy and Commerce Committee about the debate over how the use of encryptio...

If Fallout 4 represented your first time navigating the barren wasteland of a world decimated by nuclear warfare, you might have experienced this embarrassing moment: the land is littered with abandoned cars, and if you didn't know walking was your only option, you may have tried to get in one of th...

This is Trace, an action sports tracker that can keep an eye on calories, speed, jumps, tu s and more for almost any sport imaginable. It's waterproof so can sit on a surfboard or get knocked around from high-impact activities. It's $199 and is available now. Let's block ads! (Why?)

Enlarge ImageYou can tap to talk with Alexa right on your phone using the Roger app. Ry Crist/CNET You can find Amazon's virtual assistant Alexa in a growing number of devices, but you still won't find her on your phone -- not even within the official Alexa app.However, a new, free chat app for Andr...

Here's our weekly bullet list of topics on today's long episode. Enjoy!Headline Deep Dive: We discuss why we're not 100% sure if the Flyboard Air is real, how the 18-rotor Volocopter could change the personal transport vertical, and how exciting Stephen Hawking's Starshot Project is to us.Guest: We ...

Enlarge ImageRay Bradbury's "Fahrenheit 451" is a sci-fi classic. Simon & Schuster "Fahrenheit 451" often appears on school reading lists as an example of dystopian literature. Teachers everywhere will soon have a fresh film adaptation to screen for their students. Entertainment Weekly reports HBO h...

Space is full of creepy-crawlies and most of them are in the form of nebulae. There's the Black Widow Nebula, the Medusa Nebula, the Bug Nebula and the Ant Nebula. Now there's a fantastical image of a nebula known simply as the Spider.The image shows the nebula glowing green like it just stepped out...

Another Microsoft AI experiment is on the loose, but at least this one is better behaved than Tay.While Tay is still in time-out over her controversial Twitter feed, Microsoft continues to push forward with artificial intelligence research. The company launched CaptionBot.ai, which can analyze a pho...

Enlarge ImageSofia: One face representing many. UNICEF Sweden Meet Sofia. She is 7 years old and standing in a rubber boat with water up to her knees. She is cold and afraid. Only she isn't real. She's computer-generated and animated in 3D.UNICEF Sweden created Sofia from images of 500 real children...

Sen. Dia e Feinstein on Wednesday proposed new legislation on encryption, following Apple's battle with the FBI. Michael Reynolds, EPA/Corbis Two US senators are taking on a new effort to make tech companies crack their own encryption. The bill comes just after Apple's tussle with the federal gove m...

Is your GoPro gathering dust in a drawer somewhere? The action camera maker hopes you'll pull it out again to use new applications and solutions created by third-party developers.The BMW M-laptimer app will be available this summer. Lexy Savvides/CNET Although the program has been underway for a yea...