Nextbit's Robin is ready to leave the nest. There aren't many in the flock. The San Francisco startup, which captivated Kickstarter last year by promising a phone that taps the cloud for massive amounts of storage, will open its online store next week.Enlarge ImageThe Robin phone promises 100GB of c...

I strapped a familiar-looking Oculus Rift headset over my eyes. This one's been doctored: Around the lenses, a ring of sensors has been implanted. In front of me, what appears to be a foot away, there's a screen. I see my own eyes, looking back at me. And they're dilating.Eyefluence is a startup tha...

Enlarge ImageVisualisation of the gravitational waves caused by two black holes merging. Henze/NASA Scientists just discovered Einstein's ripples in the fabric of spacetime.A century ago, Albert Einstein's General Theory of Relativity changed human understanding of space and time. From a fixed speed...

Nextbit's Robin is ready to leave the nest. There aren't many in the flock. The San Francisco startup, which captivated Kickstarter last year by promising a phone that taps the cloud for massive amounts of storage, will open its online store next week.The phone promises 100GB of cloud storage. CNET ...

Enlarge ImageShow and tell: GoodSAM provides a secure video portal between an injured person and a medic. GoodSAM When rushing to the scene of a medical trauma, emergency caregivers rarely know exactly what awaits them. But the same capability on your phone that lets you video chat with grandma or l...

Nextbit's Robin is ready to leave the nest. There aren't many in the flock.The San Francisco startup, which made waves last year on Kickstarter by promising a phone that could tap the cloud for massive amounts of storage, will open its online store next week. The phone promises 100GB of cloud storag...

Serving pizza to troops in combat situations is a huge challenge. Moisture from a traditional pizza sauce, cheese and meaty toppings is eventually absorbed by its crust. That provides the perfect environment for dangerous bacteria to grow.Shelf-stable pizza, meanwhile, uses humectants -- a mix of su...

I strapped a familiar-looking Oculus Rift headset over my eyes. This one's been doctored: around the lenses, a ring of sensors has been implanted. In front of me, what appears to be a foot away from me, there's a screen. I see my own eyes, looking back at me. And they're dilating.Eyefluence is a sta...

RoadshowCar CultureFord and Bridj team up to bring a new type of mobility to Kansas CityEnlarge ImageYou wouldn't expect a multi-business partnership to not involve egregious amounts of branding, would you? KCATA Ford is getting ready to use its Transit cargo van for a purpose other than hauling pal...

Enlarge ImageNine-year-old Sydney local Domenic gets ready to suit up as Iron Boy and take on Ultron's evil henchmen. NSW Police Australia can be a pretty wild place at the best of times (we're the land of "Mad Max" after all), but thankfully one superhero has landed in Sydney to save the day. Intro...

Twitter needs more people to tweet. In its desperation to make that happen, it's taking a page from old cookbooks on how to make pasta: Throw everything against the wall and see what sticks.So far not much is sticking, and that's bad news for Twitter because it needs to win over people who have litt...

I didn't realize I had made a mistake until the cops were on top of me.I had left my gun on the floor. Total rookie move.The cruise ship was packed, and I severely underestimated the perceptiveness of the NPCs around me; elegantly dressed young women gossiped in co ers, while hired help disguised in...

Twitter needs more people to tweet. In its desperation to make that happen, it's taking a page from old cookbooks on how to make pasta: Throw everything against the wall and see what sticks.So far not much is sticking, and that's bad news for Twitter because it needs to win over people who have litt...

Currently, visually impaired people have options like braille for reading text and signage, but more limited options for things like interactive maps. Linespace hopes to help with its prototype, which combines a large drafting table, custom software, and a 3D printing head to create on-the-fly drawi...

Twitter needs more people to tweet. In its desperation to make that happen, it's taking a page from old cookbooks on how to make pasta: Throw everything against the wall and see what sticks.So far not much is sticking, and that's bad news for Twitter because it needs to win over people who have litt...

Enlarge ImageAs Nelson's Column looms in the distance, a Parisian taxi joins the iconic London cabs blockading Whitehall, seat of British gove ment, in a protest against Uber. Richard Trenholm / CNET A candidate to be the next Mayor of London took to the city's streets today to vow he would "run Ube...

Twitter needs more people to tweet. In its desperation to make that happen, it's taking a page from old cookbooks on how to make pasta: Throw everything against the wall and see what sticks.So far not much is sticking, and that's bad news for Twitter because it needs to win over people who have litt...

Facebook board member Marc Andreessen with his wife Laura and CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Splash News/Corbis Marc Andreessen needs to tweet a billion apologies.The prominent Silicon Valley investor and Facebook board member took to Twitter Wednesday to apologizes for a series of offensive tweets he posted ...

Enlarge ImageFormer HP CEO Carly Fiorina's exit wasn't really a surprise. JIM LO SCALZO/epa/Corbis Carly Fiorina had some bad news to share. So, the Republican presidential candidate tu ed to everyone's favorite place to commiserate, Facebook.Fiorina, the former CEO and chairman of Hewlett-Packard, ...

Enlarge ImageAs Nelson's Column looms in the distance, a Parisian taxi joins the iconic London cabs blockading Whitehall, seat of British gove ment, in a protest against Uber. Richard Trenholm / CNET A candidate to be the next mayor of London took to the city's streets today to vow he would "run Ube...