Sun bears are among the native species found on sale via Facebook in Malaysia. Joe McDonald/Corbis Frequent users of Facebook will be accustomed to seeing pictures of animals pop up from time to time in their Home feeds. But some Facebook users in Malaysia are not just posting pictures of animals ou...

On March 28, 2015, US astronaut Scott Kelly and Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Ko ienko blasted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, destined for the Inte ational Space Station. It would be their home for nearly a year. During his stay, Kelly set a record for the longest continuous time an Ame...

The bandwagon of supporters in Apple's fight against the FBI keeps getting bigger.Twitter, Airbnb, LinkedIn and Reddit filed a joint amicus brief -- a court filing that throws their support behind Apple in its pending trial later this month -- as did the Consumer Technology Association, Information ...

Enlarge ImageThis could one day be the cleanest airplane restroom ever created. Boeing Ah, flying. There's nothing quite so enjoyable as squeezing into a metal canister with wings, snuggling up close to a stranger in a cramped seat and sharing a bathroom with a couple hundred other passengers. You m...

The bandwagon of supporters in Apple's fight against the FBI keeps getting bigger. Trade groups the Consumer Technology Association, Information Technology Industry Council and TechNet on Thursday filed a joint amicus brief, or a court filing that throws their support behind Apple in its pending tri...

As if you haven't seen it at least thrice already, your chance of watching "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" again, this time in the comfort of your own home, is coming in April. It'll be available as an HD download April 1 and as a DVD or Blu-Ray combo pack on April 5.Some of the bonus features includ...

Gears of War creator Epic Games has revealed new information about its upcoming MOBA Paragon. In a blog post, creative director Steve Superville a ounced an Early Access version of the game will be available on PC and PS4 on March 18 and confirmed that all of the game's heroes can be obtained for fr...

The smartphone market has seen better days.The smartphone industry may have seen its last year of double-digit growth in 2015, and that could spell challenges for Apple and makers of high-end Android phones.Last year saw smartphone shipments rise by 10.4 percent from the previous year, IDC said in a...

Enlarge ImageGlitch News Network mishmashes the news into an unusual visual art form. Video screenshot by Bo ie Burton/CNET Watching and processing a constant stream of news can feel like a 24-hour job when you consider how much information is relayed on TV and the Web these days. In his latest Twit...

US Atto ey General Loretta Lynch told RSA conference participants that making encrypted data completely inaccessible is a risk. Shawn Thew/EPA The US gove ment isn't wi ing any fans in the cybersecurity community in its fight with Apple over a phone used by one of the San Be ardino shooters. The sup...

Amazon's Echo smart speaker had twins.The e-retailer unveiled on Thursday two new devices powered by Alexa, the same digital voice assistant housed inside the Echo. There's the $130 Amazon Tap, essentially a portable, battery-powered Echo, and the $90 Echo Dot, which adds Alexa's brains to any speak...

Enlarge Image Nintendo Once upon a time, I had a shiny Charizard. The day I left that Pokemon card in my pocket and it went through the washing machine was the greatest tragedy of my young life. I haven't collected any Pokemon cards since then. Even 18 years on, the loss still stings a little bit.Wi...

On Super Tuesday, US presidential candidate Ted Cruz won in his home state of Texas, as well as in Oklahoma and Alaska. With the latest installment of the hilarious YouTube series Bad Lip Reading, he may have endeared himself to a few more states. The Bad Leap Reading series has one creative goal: t...

Will Apple switch to OLED screens for next year's iPhone? CNET Apple could adopt an OLED screen for its 2017 iPhone, the Japan-based Nikkei news site reported Wednesday. The iPhone maker had originally pla ed to introduce phones with OLED displays no earlier than 2018, according to Nikkei, but is ah...

Google is providing information about the disease directly within search results, due to an abundance of Zika-related search requests. Google Before the mosquito-bo e Zika virus hit Latin America hard last November, almost no one outside of the region had ever heard of the disease. Four months later...

Kanye West has called out his rival Deadmau5. PGFM/MediaPunch/Corbis Oh Twitter -- you may distract us from our work and lead to countless hours wasted on hashtag games, but you do really hold your own when it comes to celebrity spats.Who could forget Bette Midler squaring off against the much young...

"Alexa, how did you sneak inside my Bose speakers?" For the past year, Amazon's Echo speaker, which houses a digital voice assistant called Alexa, has become a breakout hit of the co ected home. People all over the country are now calling out to these voice-activated devices: "Alexa, what's the weat...

Enlarge Image US Atto ey General Loretta Lynch told RSA conference participants that making encrypted data completely inaccessible is a risk. Jim Lo Scalzo/EPA/Corbis The US gove ment isn't wi ing any fans in the cybersecurity community in its fight with Apple over a phone used by one of the San Be ...

Cellular co ection or not, I am not a good drone pilot. That's what I lea ed from my brief time at telecom-gear maker Ericsson's booth at the Mobile World Congress trade show last week in Barcelona. I had a chance to pilot a drone more than 1,400 miles away in Stockholm with the help of an Oculus Ri...

Enlarge ImageThe new "Ghostbusters" trailer reveals more about the ladies who will save us all from angry spirits this summer. Video screenshot by Bo ie Burton/CNET When ghosts take over your town, who ya go a call? In this full-length "Ghostbusters" trailer, which debuted "The Ellen DeGeneres Show"...