Enlarge ImageApple CEO Time Cook: "We have no sympathy for terrorists...But now the gove ment has asked us for something we simply do not have, and something we consider too dangerous to create." James Martin/CNET There might have been an easier way. According to senior Apple executives on Friday, t...

Enlarge ImageApple CEO Time Cook: "We have no sympathy for terrorists...But now the gove ment has asked us for something we simply do not have, and something we consider too dangerous to create." James Martin/CNET There might have been an easier way. According to senior Apple executives on Friday, t...

The world's premier wireless tech show is about to begin and Barcelona is all dressed up for the party. Take a sightseeing tour with us under su y Spanish skies.

RoadshowCar CultureDaytona: The world's only motorsport stadiumHow would you like to sit and watch a 500-mile race from a seat narrower than those found in airplanes? Where you climb flights of stairs to get to the good seats and endure long lines at concessions and bathrooms? What if you had to do ...

The world's premier wireless tech show is about to begin and Barcelona is all dressed up for the party. Take a sightseeing tour with us under su y Spanish skies.

Enlarge ImageApple CEO Time Cook: "We have no sympathy for terrorists...But now the gove ment has asked us for something we simply do not have, and something we consider too dangerous to create." James Martin/CNET There might have been an easier way. According to senior Apple executives on Friday, t...

Enlarge ImageApple CEO Time Cook: "We have no sympathy for terrorists...But now the gove ment has asked us for something we simply do not have, and something we consider too dangerous to create." James Martin/CNET There might have been an easier way. According to senior Apple executives on Friday, t...

The Federal Communications Commission wants to liberate you from your cable company's set-top box. You probably didn't even realize you needed to be freed from this tyra y. But that's the message from FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler, who's on a mission to make sure consumers have choices when it comes to t...

Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that's taken over our lives.Pollution is a major problem, it seems. screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET Your friend might be a mensch, but he also has a stench.Do you tell him? Do you explain that he emits an odor more pungent than a p...

Beyonce just might be the black Bill Gates in the making, and that's not conjecture. As of last year she owns part of a streaming music service called Tidal (along with her hip-hop mogul husband Jay Z, and chart-topping colleagues Kanye West, Nicki Minaj, Riha a, et al.). But despite that megawatt s...

The Federal Communications Commission wants to liberate you from your cable company's set-top box. You probably didn't even realize you needed to be freed from this tyra y. FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler is taking on the cable industry with a proposal to open up the set-top market up to third parties, suc...

Enlarge ImageIn the past three months, the CPSC has received reports of 52 hoverboard fires resulting in over $2 million in property damage. James Martin/CNET Your hoverboard is a potential deathtrap. We didn't say it. The US gove ment did. Hoverboards "pose an unreasonable risk of fire" if they don...

Enlarge ImageApple CEO Time Cook: "We have no sympathy for terrorists...But now the gove ment has asked us for something we simply do not have, and something we consider too dangerous to create." James Martin/CNET There might have been an easier way.According to senior Apple executives on Friday, th...

If you saw the original 1977 "Star Wars" in theaters or grew up watching it on videotape or laserdisc, you may know every moment by heart. When filmmaker George Lucas began revising scenes in 1997 in what became known as "Star Wars: Episode IV: A New Hope," some die-hard fans vowed to lea lightsaber...

We talk about the far reaching privacy implications with the FBI's backdoor request to Apple, Error 53 gets fixed and Apple TV could be the big wi er with the FCC's move to change the cable business.Subscribe to the Apple Byte PodcastiTunes (MP3) | RSS (MP3)iTunes (HD) | iTunes (SD) | iTunes (HQ)RSS...

Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that's taken over our lives.Now it's Trump vs Apple. LeoGrossman2015/YouTube screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET Having asked rhetorically "Who do they think they are?" of Apple, Donald Trump went one step further.At a campaign rally i...

Barcelona's Fira Gran Via convention center hosts Mobile World Congress. Stephen Shankland/CNET Just when you've finished your laundry from CES and put away your suitcase, the technology trade show calendar beckons again. But instead of Las Vegas, this time the destination is Barcelona and the show ...

Enlarge ImageBeyond getting to Mars more quickly, a new form of laser-based propulsion could get us to far-flung exoplanets faster than has ever been possible. Video screenshot by Michael Franco/CNET Ever since NASA a ounced plans to send a ma ed mission to Mars in the 2030s and Hollywood got in on ...

Enlarge ImageSupporters of Tim Cook's stance on the iPhone-cracking court order rally at an Apple store in San Francisco. A sticker on some of the phones reads, "I do not consent to the search of this device." James Martin/CNET Apple for the moment has three extra days to prepare for its defiance of...

Enlarge ImageIn the past three months, the CPSC has received reports of 52 hoverboard fires resulting in over $2 million in property damage. James Martin/CNET Your hoverboard is a potential deathtrap. We didn't say it. The US gove ment did. Hoverboards "pose an unreasonable risk of fire" if they don...