It's been a busy year for Apple CEO Tim Cook since the company's last shareholders' meeting. Apple added new iPhone models, updated the Apple TV set-top box, made a larger iPad and designed a pencil to use with it. The company also revised its Mac OS X and iOS mobile software that runs on more than ...

Forget about fast lanes. The new buzzphrase in the battle for an open Inte et is "zero rating."Enlarge ImageThe battle over the FCC's Net neutrality rules is far from over. Kevin Huang/Fight for the Future Zero rating is the practice of giving you online services, like music and video access, that d...

Enlarge Image BBC/YouTube screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET Families warred from within. Friends bickered. The Inte et's collective mind broke apart like an egg dropped on a tile floor. What was it that brought such a calamity upon our world? It was a photograph of a dress. Not just any dress. The...

Android users, are you ready for your close-up? Facebook has begun rolling out its Live Video feature to devices ru ing Android mobile software, Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg said Friday at a town hall Q&A session in Berlin. The company has been slowly releasing the feature to Apple's iOS devices ...

Mr. Cook isn't going to Washington, but his top lawyer is. Apple's general counsel, Bruce Sewell, will speak on behalf of the iPhone maker and CEO Tim Cook on Tuesday at a hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee on the balance between national security and individual privacy. At the same time,...

Inte et equality law in the US is having a birthday. Dig out the party hats, but don't celebrate too hard. It's only one chapter in a global debate that is set to define how we use the Inte et for years to come.It was exactly one year ago that the US Federal Communications Commission adopted rules s...

Few people have tried virtual reality, but it's already become a meme. Earlier this week, a photo went viral showing Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg striding past unsuspecting jou alists strapped into virtual reality headsets. Reactions ranged from comparisons to "The Matrix" to the observation that Zu...

Mark Zuckerberg's ambitious mission to provide free Inte et access to rural India was rejected by the people it was intended to help long before the country's regulators ba ed it earlier this month.Around the country, farmers, labourers and office workers sco ed Facebook's offer. Called Free Basics,...

Here's our weekly bullet list of topics on today's long episode. Enjoy!Headline Deep Dive: We discuss the potential of widespread robot fight clubs, why the upgraded Atlas robot is both impressive and terrifying, and where we think the future of commercial space travel is headed.Guest: Graham Dugoni...

Apple vs. the FBI continues as this year's biggest story and now Apple wants Congress to make a decision. Plus, the latest iPhone 5SE details and the Apple Pencil to get back its navigation functionality.Subscribe to the Apple Byte PodcastiTunes (MP3) | RSS (MP3)iTunes (HD) | iTunes (SD) | iTunes (H...

Enlarge ImageCNET editors Sharon Profis (left) and Sarah Mitroff test the mini Lumio+, one of the products in our giveaway bag that got its start on "Shark Tank." Video screenshot by Leslie Katz/CNET Editor's note: This week's giveaway has a Snapchat component. Please read the below rules carefully....

RoadshowThe recall shoe drops on 2016 Honda Civics. (AutoComplete, Ep. 7) Honda recalls 40K Civics for misassembled engines, cordless charging comes to Teslas, and Audi's newest crossover is also its smallest. Play AutoComplete Podcast, Ep. 7 Your browser does not support the audio element. AutoComp...

Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that's taken over our lives.Marco Rubio doesn't stand with Apple. Fox News/YouTube screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET Thursday's CNN/Telemundo Republican debate was full of accusations, recriminations and fulminations.Perhaps the only...

Walking into a store and demanding cash from the register usually ends badly for all conce ed -- but an app called Spare replaces a stocking mask and a sawn-off when you want to withdraw cash straight from the till of any shop.Phones are increasingly muscling in on the stuff you'd previously need yo...

RoadshowPerformance CarsBMW 1 Series M Coupe now worth more than other models that were nearly twice as expensive new BMW's least expensive M-badged offering from 2011 has reached a small but significant milestone: It's now worth more than all of the other far costlier like-badged models it once sha...

The masters of cardboard and hot glue guns who brought you "DIY Prop Shop" have retu ed with a new crafty Web series from Mashable called "DIY Costume Squad." In an episode posted Wednesday, do-it-yourself host Dustin McLean and his crew show viewers how to construct a Poe Dameron X-Wing suit from "...

Mr. Cook isn't going to Washington, but his top lawyer is. Apple's general counsel, Bruce Sewell, will speak on behalf of the iPhone maker and CEO Tim Cook on Tuesday at a hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee on the balance between national security and individual privacy. At the same time,...

Mr. Cook isn't going to Washington, but his top lawyer is. Apple's general counsel, Bruce Sewell, will speak on behalf of the iPhone maker and CEO Tim Cook on Tuesday at a hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee on the balance between national security and individual privacy. At the same time,...

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is encouraging employees to attend a town hall to lea about the Black Lives Matter movement. James Martin/CNET Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has ordered employees to stop crossing out the phrase "black lives matter" on the walls at its Menlo Park, Califo ia, headquarters....

Opera Software, a pere ial underdog, has launched a new browser project to help get it out of the doghouse.The project is designed to revamp the basics of how you use a browser, Chief Executive Lars Boilesen said in an interview at the Mobile World Congress show here in Barcelona, Spain."I want to a...