Sometimes i ovation just needs a little incentive to get moving. Sometimes that incentive comes in the form of money, sometimes it's exposure, and sometimes, as in the case of the Google Lunar XPrize, it's both. The GLXP is a $30 million pool of prizes that's kicked off a new-age space race. Private...

"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 weath...

Enlarge Image Sarah Tew/CNET Apple's iPhone upgrade programs appear to have piqued the interest of Samsung, which is now trialing a similar service in Singapore.The South Korean electronics giant on Thursday unveiled a program called Samsung Concierge. The service, currently only available in Singap...

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

Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that's taken over our lives.It's new. It's Plonked. screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET You know that tech is an incestuous business, don't you?Everyone knows everyone or at least seems, in some distant way, to be co ected to everyone....

Enlarge ImageCanadian pe y for your thoughts, America? Google Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump were the big wi ers in the Super Tuesday primary races on the road to the White House, but the results seem to have left some people feeling like the entire United States is a lost cause, if Google's searc...

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...

Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that's taken over our lives.In Maryland, buses have ears. MJofLakeland1; YouTube screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET This privacy versus security thing is becoming both heated and convoluted.It's easy to get the impression that securit...

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...

Enlarge ImageCanadian pe y for your thoughts, America? Google Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump were the big wi ers in the Super Tuesday primary races on the road to the White House, but the results seem to have left some people feeling like the entire United States is a lost cause, if Google's searc...

Concept cars from Citroen, Pininfarina, Subaru and other companies give us a look at what type of vehicles will hit the roads of the near future.

James Martin/CNET Public opinion may be divided on whether Apple should modify its mobile software to help the FBI gain access to a terrorist's iPhone, but several leading tech companies and privacy groups are definitely siding with Apple CEO Tim Cook. The American Civil Liberties Union filed the fi...

Concept cars from Citroen, Pininfarina, Subaru and other companies give us a look at what type of vehicles will hit the roads of the near future.

Enlarge ImageCanadian pe y for your thoughts, America? Google Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump were the biggest wi ers in the Super Tuesday primary races on the road to the White House, but the results seem to have left some people feeling like the entire United States of America is a lost cause, if...

Enlarge ImageGen. Joseph Dunford Jr. and Defense Secretary Ash Carter discuss progress against the Islamic State at the Pentagon. Department of Defense/Navy Petty Officer 2nd Class Dominique A. Pineiro The US military is cyberbombing the Islamic State. In an effort to disrupt the terrorist group's a...

When Remedy Entertainment first a ounced Quantum Break alongside the Xbox One in 2013, the developer was adamant that it was a dual property: a television show wrapped into a game. The choices players made in the game would impact episode the television show, and events from the show would be explor...

Boston-based startup Affectiva, formed out of MIT Media Lab, is bringing its software that scans your face and determines your emotion to video games. The company writes on its website, "What if we could play games that read our emotions and adapt in real-time?" An alluring concept, indeed.The first...

The Pentagon has tapped Alphabet Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt to lead a board that will provide advice on emerging tech. Kay Nietfeld/dpa/Corbis Tensions between Silicon Valley and the US gove ment may seem to be at an all-time high, particularly with the headline-grabbing privacy battle between ...

The Facebook executive detained in Brazil on Tuesday has been released. James Martin/CNET A day after a Facebook executive was jailed in Brazil, he's now been released.Here's what happened. On Tuesday, Diego Dzodan, Menlo Califo ia-based Facebook's vice president for Latin America, was arrested for ...

Google's Hands Free is hoping to make some change at the register. Visual Mozart/ImageZoo/Corbis Pay with your voice.Google on Wednesday released to the public a new app called Hands Free, which lets people pay for items in stores by simply telling the cashier, "I'll pay with Google." But don't tell...