Facebook wants to use artificial intelligence to make it easier for people to find photos and videos on the social network. James Martin/CNET Facebook isn't working on artificial intelligence just to let you text with robots. (Though it's doing that, too.)It's also using the technology to do somethi...

Microsoft originally hoped Fable Legends could enjoy a 10-year lifespan, but the game never made it out of beta before it was canceled in March. The game's servers stayed online for beta testers following its cancellation, but have now officially gone offline today, April 13, as previously a ounced....

RoadshowCar IndustryToyota, UMTRI will tu Michigan into co ected-car paradiseIf only co ected cars looked this interesting on the road. In reality, you can barely tell the difference, if you can at all. Toyota The University of Michigan is home to more than just garbage collegiate sports (full discl...

Enlarge Image Rockstar Games Violent games that allow the player to treat women badly have real-world effects. Young men who strongly identify with the male protagonists of these games are less likely to care about women in the real world, a new study has found.A team of researchers from the Univers...

RoadshowCar IndustryIIHS claims raising speed limits cost 33,000 lives over two decadesEnlarge ImageThanks to federalism, our speed-limit laws are a patchwork of varying limits. We haven't had a national speed limit law since the '90s. Insurance Institute for Highway Safety A high speed limit is a n...

Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that's taken over our lives.Watch out for that wheel, sir. Screenshot by CNET These days, we tend to reserve our criticism for selfie-takers. Increasingly, it seems as if they're prepared to take absurd risks simply to say, Look at me....

Enlarge Image24-year-old quadriplegic man Ian Burkhart plays Guitar Hero. Ohio State University He was just 19 years old when a diving accident injured his spine and paralysed Ian Burkhart's entire body from the neck down. He was left with some small use of his arms, and no use of his legs.Now 24, B...

Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that's taken over our lives. Stephen Hawking isn't impressed with the US election. Reporter#7490403/Demotix/Corbis Before the US election campaign is over, will someone suggest building a wall in the sky to protect us against aliens?Yo...

Enlarge ImageFacebook's Terragraph project could mount ante as on streetlights. Facebook Freaked out by Facebook trying to fill the skies with colossal drones beaming the Inte et at you? The social network giant offered two more down-to-earth technologies on Wednesday to dramatically improve network...

Marvel "I've been hoping not to die before May 6," I told my aunt last year. "Not die or go blind or deaf," she immediately said. Yeah...we're a little invested. Some of the Marvel sequels have been letdowns -- "Thor: The Dark Elves Are Romulans" comes to mind -- but the Captain America movies went ...

The USB Type-C cable has no right-side-up or upside-down. Stephen Shankland/CNET The folks behind the USB Type-C standard have a new approach to keep sketchy cables from zapping your laptop or evildoers from hacking your phone.USB Type-C brings new perks to the mundane chore of co ecting devices to ...

TECHNICALLY LITERATE: In the spring of 1943, E esto Cuadra believes he is a man. But when a submarine surfaces in the dark sea, and four German soldiers kidnap him, he discovers how little he knows.

The CBS Sports App sent user information over the Inte et unencrypted. The problem has been fixed. Screenshot by Laura Hautala/CNET CBS Sports Digital let its defense slide. Both the app and mobile website collected registering users' names, passwords, dates of birth and other personal information, ...

Prime Minister of Australia Malcolm Tu bull uses the new AskIzzy app. Infoxchange When Lisa Peterson became homeless, she spent months without a bed of her own. But her phone never left her sight.Driving across the country, couch-surfing and staying in crisis accommodation, Lisa would charge her pho...

Unico s, Silicon Valley's name for billion-dollar-plus private companies, used to breed like rabbits. Nowadays, they're multiplying about as fast as pandas. Wikimedia Commons Once upon a time -- say last year -- Silicon Valley was intent on breeding unico s.The tech hub's venture capitalists were in...

The Kepler mission has found 1,963 confirmed planets outside the solar system, and we know now that there are probably billions more out there. Yet there was a time in the not-so-distant past when we didn't have any evidence of exoplanets at all. In fact, a researcher has just found the very earlies...

Google knows you have goals, and it wants to help you find time to achieve them, whether it's exercising, spending time with family or developing a skill. The Web giant on Tuesday introduced a new assistive feature to Google Calendar that help you find time in your busy schedule for your desired act...

Enlarge Image Blasius Erlinger/Corbis Ever had an apology fall flat? You might have not given enough emphasis to the most important parts, or you may have even left them out altogether.According to research from a team led by Roy Lewicki at Ohio State University, the best apologies are made up of si...

[embedded content] The doctor is in. The trailer for Marvel's "Doctor Strange" just landed, so you'll excuse us for using just one pun.It premiered on ABC's "Jimmy Kimmel Live," and it's our first good look at what Ben Davis, the film's director of photography, has promised will be "Marvel's 'Fantas...

The FBI may have gotten help in cracking into an iPhone used by one of the San Be ardino terrorists from an unusual ally: professional hackers.The iPhone was cracked after hackers brought a previously unknown software flaw to the attention of the FBI, according to a report Tuesday by the Washington ...