The Star Trek 50th a iversary convention in Las Vegas attracts an out-of-this-world cosplay display. There are plenty of fans in Starfleet uniforms, but clever costumes also include an Orion slave girl, Santa Go and a strange Elvis-Trek mashup.This spectacular Nero costume pays tribute to the villai...

Athletes can't just focus on sticking the perfect landing or diving with flawless form at the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. They'll also have to worry about Zika. Fortunately, it's not just athletes converging in Brazil. One organization is using mapping technology to track the spread of the infectiou...

Enlarge Image Sarah Tew/CNET Despite a big effort in the last year to gain more ground in India, new sales figures indicate Apple's strategy isn't working in the world's second most populous country.The Cupertino, Califo ia-based giant sold around 35 percent fewer iPhones in India in the second quar...

While the team called Suicide Squad was introduced in the comic The Brave and the Bold #25 way back in 1959, Harley Qui only became a member in 2011. In fact, she wasn't even a comic character originally, first appearing the 1990s "Batman: The Animated Series".In the movie Harley Qui -- real name Ha...

Enlarge ImageSamsung's massive new mobile is... pretty cool! And that blue will make my eyes pop. Sarah Tew/CNET Samsung's popped out yet another massive phone, but the Note 7 has made us sit up and pay attention -- underwater doodling, iris sca ing, easy GIF creation? This might be the mobile to pr...

The Pioneer PLX-500 tu table looks almost identical to the original Technics SL-1200 deck, minus the absurdly high price tag. Pioneer If you weren't one of the lucky few to snag the remodeled (and absurdly expensive) version of the coveted Technics SL-1200GAE DJ tu table before it sold out in 30 min...

Enlarge Image Stratasys 3D printing has been used to build replicas of historical artefacts based on photographs and scans. Now, in honour of the 2016 Olympic Games, a team from 3D printing company Stratasys, 3DPTree in Atlanta and the Mille ium Gate Museum in Atlanta have gone one step further -- r...

An hour south of Tokyo, on the edge of the bay is a piece of history unique in the world. Embedded in concrete just a few feet from the water is the 114-year-old battleship Mikasa. It's the only surviving pre-dreadnought battleship, not to mention one of the only Imperial navy vessels still intact f...

Enlarge Image Fluance Editors' note: This giveaway has a Twitter component, so please read the below rules carefully. We've tu ed off comments on this post to avoid confusion as to how to enter the contest. Congratulations to Jesse L. of San Diego for wi ing a Sony HT-XT1 pedestal sound bar last wee...

[embedded content] Since launching just over a month ago, over 75 million people have started catching and training in Pokemon Go. Now, the Pokemon are striking back.A new "prank" video shows a gang of youths dressed in Pikachu onesies catapulting giant, blow-up Pokeballs at unsuspecting civilians. ...

[embedded content] When beloved graphic novel "Watchmen" was reimagined as a movie directed by Zack Snyder, some irate fans, including "Watchmen" comics creator Alan Moore, criticized the movie's depiction of the troubled superheroes. Leave it to Honest Trailers -- a YouTube series from Screen Junki...

Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that's taken over our lives.Enlarge ImageWhat does it say about you? Tinder Does being on Tinder say something about you?Or is it just a natural way to meet people and enjoy a little ca al closeness once in a while?I am moved to ask th...

Every five years sees a new Australian Census, but this year's anonymous survey of the population might not be so anonymous. For the first time ever, the Australian Bureau of Statistics will collect and retain names and addresses of every person in Australia for the 2016 Census. We take a look at th...

Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that's taken over our lives.Enlarge ImageIs it really about the hours spent working? © ELIJAH NOUVELAGE/Reuters/Corbis You're desperate to be a success, aren't you?What else is there in life?If you can't waft into a fancy restaurant an...

Be wary of attendees at the Black Hat hacker conference in Las Vegas. Laura Hautala Large screens line one wall in a darkened room in a Las Vegas convention center. All the monitors except one show charts and graphs that track the activity of hackers down the hallway. The other screen shows the 1983...

Our population is getting older, and with that comes all sorts of challenges for medical providers, including a lack of staff to look after seniors in long-term care; however, a robot named SAM is hoping to help nurses and doctors by providing check-ins and basic visits to patients. We're also takin...

Enlarge ImageApple is wooing the cybersecurity industry. James Martin/CNET How much is a flaw in Apple software worth? The answer to that question has long been a mystery, because Apple didn't pay security researchers who reported bugs to the company. That changed Thursday, when the head of Apple se...

Sling Blake Krikorian, the co-founder of Sling Media and a longtime fixture in Silicon Valley, died Wednesday at age 48.His brother, Jason confirmed Krikorian's sudden passing on Facebook. According to Recode's Kara Swisher, he was "apparently struck by a heart attack while surfing in the San Franci...

Getty Images/EyeEm Apple may not have given up on TV programming after all.After pausing plans last year for a service that would stream live TV over the inte et, the company is now focusing on creating a digital TV guide that would work on Apple TV boxes, iPhones and iPads, according to a Recode re...

Thanks a lot, Steven Spielberg and John Williams, for forever creeping us out about sharks. Spielberg's 1975 movie "Jaws" wouldn't have been quite as terrifying without Williams' "duu n du n" music, and we all know it. Now a study published Wednesday in the jou al PLOS One has quantified our quiveri...