Brave's logo has made its way into the Apple and Google Play app stores. Brave Software Despite troubles convincing Google that its app is legit, Brave Software's browser is now available to anyone who is sick of a oying mobile ads. Apple added Brave for iPhones and iPads to its app store on Friday,...

RoadshowCar IndustryHere's why Takata's airbag inflators keep explodingEnlarge ImageThe ITC findings cover roughly 23 million of the 28 million recalled airbag inflators. Toru Hanai/Reuters/Corbis Takata's faulty airbag inflators, which could rupture and send shrapnel (instead of an airbag) into the...

Facebook knows you have feelings, and it wants to help you share them with new symbols that represent a greater range of emotion than a "like" can manage.The social networking giant said Wednesday that all of its users now have the option of choosing from a collection of new emoji-like "Reactions" t...

Google is helping article pages load faster on smartphones. Google The supermarket checkout line: A prime place to catch up on the news by reading through an article on your smartphone. But not if the story hasn't finished loading by the time you get to the cashier. Yes, it's a trivial problem. But ...

LG is taking a break from Google's Nexus phone program. There are no plans to build a successor to Google's Nexus 5 or Nexus 5X phones, according to a spokesman for the Korean electronics conglomerate. "LG needs to focus on its own brand," he said at the Mobile World Congress trade show in Barcelona...

Brave Software's logo Brave Software Despite troubles convincing Google that its app is legit, Brave Software's browser is now available to anyone who is sick of a oying mobile ads. Apple added Brave for iPhones and iPads to its app store on Friday, but Google rejected the app twice before publishin...

There's demand out there for smart guns. The trouble is, smart gun startups aren't attracting the funding they need to bring their products to market. That's the reality check from smart gun makers and proponents who gathered Tuesday at a smart gun symposium in San Francisco. They say support is bui...

The thin, light, attractive MateBook that Huawei introduced at Mobile World Congress obviously takes a few design cues from Apple's iPad Pro, including a folding keyboard case and a pressure-sensitive digital pen for writing or drawing on the screen.Huawei's, though, comes with a bonus: a built-in l...

Enlarge ImageSock it to me. A potential startup hub needs to be able to attract people who are willing to take risks, sartorial or otherwise. Florian Küttler/Westend61/Corbis Cities around the world are vying to become the next hotbed of world-changing startups. But what are the magic ingredients re...

Mobile World Congress is in full swing in Barcelona, and the news keeps on flowing. On Tuesday, our crew got to see Microsoft's newest Lumia, fitness bands from Garmin and a safer future in the workplace. As always, check out everything from MWC 2016 on CNET.Project Tango could come to a museum near...

Enlarge ImageDouglas Vakoch joins the CraveCast on Tuesday at noon. SETI Institute Douglas Vakoch is kind of like humanity's translator to the universe. He's worked at the SETI Institute and elsewhere on some seriously big questions, like: How might we send messages into space to let other intellige...

Mobile World Congress is in full swing in Barcelona, and the news keeps on flowing. On Tuesday, our crew got to see Microsoft's newest Lumia, fitness bands from Garmin and a safer future in the workplace. As always, check out everything from MWC 2016 on CNET.Project Tango could come to a museum near...

NASA is recruiting a fresh class of astronauts. The pay ranges from $66,000 to a little over $144,000. Applications have officially closed, but before the finalists get themselves fitted for space suits, they're going to need some pretty specific qualifications, including a cast-iron stomach.Being s...

We wondered how Virgin Galactic would recover from its tragic spacecraft crash back in October 2014, and now, it looks like we have an answer: the VSS Unity, a new craft designed to inspire hope in the company's continuing march toward private space travel. MIT Media Lab is well known for its i ovat...

The Garmin Vivoactive HR is part smartwatch, part activity tracker and part sport watch. It can display incoming calls, text messages, emails and calendar alerts from your smartphones to your wrist. It will also track steps, distance traveled, calories bu ed and sleep.The watch is equipped with GPS ...

Any daredevils still interested in buying a hoverboard will find it harder to get one now.On Tuesday, Amazon.com pulled all its hoverboards from its website, leaving only accessories such as decals and wheels still available. An advertisement for the Razor Hovertrax hoverboard leads to a nearly empt...

Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that's taken over our lives."Oh, my God. And all I've got is this Jeep." Jeep/YouTube screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET A vital part of the superhero essence is, to my less than heroic mind, the "super" part.I expect superheroes to h...

Let's go back in time to 2012, back to when the latest iPhones were numbered with "4" and "5." That's when Gavio a ounced its toaster-shaped iPhone speaker dock, a delightful retro romp made to hold your smartphone and play your tunes out loud. Looking back through gadget history, it's hard to tell ...

Enlarge ImageIf Pac-Man were a person. Video screenshot by Amanda Kooser/CNET Talk about high concept. Filmmakers Fury Fingers decided to mash up the '80s video game Pac-Man with a reboot of '70s escape-through-surreal-gangland film "The Warriors." Oh yeah, and there's a bunch of mode parkour in the...

Star Wars Battlefront got a big new update today, but that's not all Electronic Arts a ounced. The publisher also shared a piece of art for Battlefront's upcoming Outer Rim expansion, which is the first paid expansion for the Star Wars shooter. Check it out below.EA also confirmed a few more details...