RoadshowCar IndustryAlphabet's Sidewalk Labs offers new platform for Smart City Challenge wi erThe more data we can collect, the better off our transportation systems will be. US Department of Transportation Sidewalk Labs, a subsidiary of Google's parent company Alphabet, is hard at work on a new pl...

Nike has plenty of high-tech ways to track your workout, but its latest tech breakthrough is really just about looking cool. Watch CNET Update for details on the new HyperAdapt 1.0 self-lacing sneakers, along with changes coming to the Nike+ app. It can feel like we're saturated with health-tracking...

RoadshowPerformance CarsInside Acura's church of the NSX The 2017 Acura NSX is finally, finally here, much to the joy of enthusiasts everywhere. We recently had a chance to drive this bad boy out on the track at Thermal Springs in Califo ia, but what about how it's made? Acura flew me to Marysville,...

Sales of mainline Pokemon games have now reached 200 million units worldwide, The Pokemon Company has a ounced. This figure counts copies of the core series sold through February 29 and does not include the franchise's numerous spinoffs.With spinoffs counted, the series has now reached 279 million u...

Two hot topics at the Game Developers Conference are virtual reality and the recent discussion around the possibility of PlayStation Network-Xbox Live cross-play. So when we sat down with PlayStation executive Adam Boyes this week for an interview, we picked his brain on those very subjects.One majo...

Deep Silver, the publisher behind franchises like Saints Row and Dead Island, is gearing up to make a "major a ouncement" at E3 2016, according to CEO Klemens Kundratitz. In an interview with MCV, the executive did not share specifics, but teased that the company has "a lot of games in the pipeline ...

Enlarge Image"Game of Thrones" gets the Dr. Seuss treatment in "Oh, The Places It'll Snow." Alex Cohen What would the "Game of Thrones" world look like if beloved children's book author Dr. Seuss wrote about Westeros, instead of fantasy book author George R.R. Martin? Illustrator Alex Cohen takes a ...

President Barack Obama talked digital privacy and security. Bob Daemmrich/Corbis When President Obama took the stage last Friday to kick off South by Southwest, he uttered two words that made the audience roar: "Thanks, Obama." He was having fun with one of the Inte et's favorite memes. You bu ed yo...

Did he or didn't he? That's the question hanging over a lawsuit allegedly filed by an Uber driver, Jason Dalton, suspected of killing six people during a shooting spree in Michigan. In the suit, which was filed in a handwritten note against the San Francisco-based ride-hailing startup Tuesday, he al...

RoadshowCar IndustryAutomated emergency braking to be standard on nearly all US new cars by 2022Volvo already plans to incorporate its suite of semi-autonomous systems on all new S90 and V90 vehicles. Volvo Not every breakthrough in the US auto industry is the result of a federal mandate. That's the...

Thursday mo ing brought a new trailer for "X-Men: Apocalypse," giving us our longest look yet at the first mutant of the same name. Played by Oscar Isaac (Poe Dameron in "Star Wars: The Force Awakens"), the titular mutant Apocalypse is seen rising and gathering his four horsemen and begi ing his pla...

Despite a ouncing the company would close tomorrow, music subscription service Drip has been saved at the eleventh hour by crowdfunding platform Kickstarter.Drip a ounced in February that after five years it was due to close its doors on March 18. However, Kickstarter a ounced today on its blog that...

Windows 10 games will be coming to the Xbox One this summer. CNET Later this summer, Xbox One owners will finally be able to run Windows 10 apps.Jason Ronald, principal group program manager for Microsoft Game Studios, revealed the Xbox One's upcoming support for Windows 10 universal apps at this we...

You only have a few hours left to fill out your NCAA Tou ament brackets. Microsoft thinks it can help. Whether you depend on your own knowledge, the endless television analysis or the wisdom of fellow fans, picking the perfect bracket is nerve racking. So many things -- as when No. 14 seed Universit...

Malicious ads can infect your computer, even if you never click on them. C.J. Burton/Corbis The New York Times regularly reports on how dangerous the world is. Over the weekend, the Gray Lady became a dangerous place.On Sunday and Monday, the Times, the BBC, AOL and a host of other major news and en...

Enlarge ImageThis necklace listens in as you eat. Wenyao Xu/Unviersity at Buffalo You take a bite of a carrot. Snap! You nosh on soup. Slurp. You bite into a cookie. Crunch. The foods you eat make different sounds as you mash them with your teeth. University at Buffalo computer scientist Wenyao Xu d...

Enlarge ImageApple CEO Tim Cook shares his thoughts on the battle over the unlocking of an iPhone. Time Magazine Fighting the US gove ment over the issue of iPhone encryption makes Tim Cook uncomfortable. But Apple's CEO feels he would have sold out had his company given in to all of the feds' deman...

Cliffhanger -- Theon Greyjoy (Alfie Allen) and Sansa Stark (Sophie Tu er) jump from the battlements of Winterfell at the end of Season 5 of "Game of Thrones." Helen Sloan/HELEN SLOAN He's been beaten, bludgeoned, tortured and -- ahem -- "gelded." But no matter what happens to Theon Greyjoy in "Game ...

youtube.com T-Mobile and YouTube have made up. Early on, the world's largest video site had expressed its displeasure at T-Mobile's Binge On program, which compresses video, at some cost to quality, to allow subscribers to watch unlimited content on their phones and tablets. YouTube wasn't part of t...

RoadshowPerformance CarsAcura's church of the NSXThe 2017 Acura NSX is finally, finally here, much to the joy of enthusiasts everywhere. We recently had a chance to drive this bad boy out on the track at Thermal Springs in Califo ia, but what about how it's made? Acura flew me to Marysville, Ohio, t...