Last week, I tried to see if I could live without Facebook.I didn't purposefully avoid it. I just wanted to figure out how much I actually use the social network that's sucked up so much of the world's time since Mark Zuckerberg created it more than a decade ago.Tu s out, I couldn't stay away. I reg...

Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that's taken over our lives.She's not happy. And she's thinking different. John Smith/YouTube screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET Parents sometimes struggle with their kids' proclivities.It's always been this way. However, technology h...

Sad Affleck has made Simon & Garfunkel very happy. The folk duo's version of the song "Sound of Silence," released in 1966, is experiencing a resurgence in 2016, likely thanks to a viral video that features the tune playing over an image of Ben Affleck looking sad, oh so sad, when asked about unfavo...

Enlarge ImageWhich "Ghostbusters" Pop Vinyl toy is your favorite? Funko As we already gleaned from the "Ghostbusters" movie trailer, each new member of the team has her own specialty.Kate McKi on plays the "brilliant engineer" Jillian Holtzma . Kristen Wiig is the quantum physics genius Erin Gilbert...

Enlarge ImageThere's nothing weird about this at all. Fred & Friends You don't want to spend hours and hours on your cosplay for the local convention and then show up with unwanted ear and nose hairs visible. Unless you're going as Chewbacca, you might want to invest in a personal hair trimmer. And ...

Morro Rock in Califo ia. Maybe he should've proposed from the pier. Gu/Corbis Proposing to the love of your life is a very special thing. It's tempting, then, to make the event memorable. But you can't always control what about an event will stay in the memory most. Consider, please, the proposal of...

Arx Pax has created the first real hoverboard -- but the company's aspirations go much, much farther.

Greg Henderson's Arx Pax might be the most ambitious startup you've never heard of. James Martin/CNET You know that saying, "Don't reinvent the wheel"?Greg Henderson never got the memo because that's how he spends his time -- and his money -- these days.Henderson is the guy who shocked "Back to the ...

Megan Smith, a former Google executive, joined the Obama administration in 2014. Chuck Ke edy/The White House Sixty years ago -- when computers were big, bulky and new -- a large chunk of computer scientists were women. That changed sometime in the 1980s, when the number of women in tech "went off a...

Greg Henderson's Arx Pax might be the most ambitious startup you've never heard of. James Martin/CNET You know that saying, "Don't reinvent the wheel"?Greg Henderson never got the memo because that's how he spends his time -- and his money -- these days.Henderson is the guy who shocked "Back to the ...

Enlarge Image"Terminator" and "Aliens" producer Gale A e Hurd introduces "Fear the Walking Dead" in London. Rich Trenholm/CNET On the edge of your seat with the cliff-hanger ending of "The Walking Dead"?"I promise you'll be out of your misery very soon", says producer Gale A e Hurd, adding "and so w...

We've been speculating wildly about "Rogue One" since the trailer dropped and we're sharing it all with you!Personally, I think everyone is related to someone we already know and that there's no way this Star Wars story will be any less incestuous then previous ones. But, hey, who knows? With 8ish m...

Sad Affleck has made Simon & Garfunkel very happy. The folk duo's version of the song "Sound of Silence," released in 1966, is experiencing a resurgence in 2016, likely thanks to a viral video that features the tune playing over an image of Ben Affleck looking sad, oh so sad, when asked about unfavo...

Police said they helped Google security after a threat Friday. Brooks Kraft/Corbis Police "assisted" Google security at the company's corporate campus in Mountain View, Califo ia, after a threat Friday, according to a tweet from the Mountain View Police Department. The police said there were no inju...

What does it take to unify more than 5.5 million people online? One watermelon and a whole lot of rubber bands. The Buzzfeed Video Facebook page went live on Friday with a streaming feed showing two jumpsuit-wearing staffers wrapping one rubber band at a time around the middle of a watermelon until ...

Enlarge Image"Terminator" and "Aliens" producer Gale A e Hurd introduces "Fear the Walking Dead" in London. Rich Trenholm/CNET On the edge of your seat with the cliff-hanger ending of "The Walking Dead"?"I promise you'll be out of your misery very soon", says producer Gale A e Hurd, adding "and so w...

The "quiet, fast, and well-armed" submersibles in the Seawolf class were designed to replace the aging Los Angeles-class fleet of submarines. But its high cost ($3 billion to 3.5 billion each) and the end of the Cold War led to the Seawolf program's cancellation after just three submarines were buil...

What do you need to get 4K in your home? I'll give you a hint: it's more than just a TV. While the 4K-compatible TV is the most obvious part -- and prices on those TVs have never been lower -- there's also content, exte al devices, cables, and more to consider. So here, in five easy steps, is what y...

Sad Affleck has made Simon & Garfunkel very happy. "Sound of Silence," a song released by the folk duo in 1966, is experiencing a resurgence in 2016, thanks to a viral video that features the tune as actor Ben Affleck looks sad, oh so sad, when asked about unfavorable reviews of "Batman v Superman: ...

Congratulations to Tim L. of Pembroke Pines, Florida, for wi ing an Arccos Driver golf-performance-tracking system in last week's giveaway. So you have a DJI Phantom 3 or Phantom 4 drone, but you wish it could travel farther from the remote than the standard 1.2 or 3.1 miles the gadgets can venture ...