Enlarge ImageBy 2020, more people will have a phone than electricity or ru ing water. CNET The mobile phone is conquering the world. Everywhere you tu , someone's glued to the screen of a phone, e-mailing, posting status updates or playing a mobile game. But that's largely in developed countries lik...

Microsoft is getting its hands on more than just a popular app. Josh Miller/CNET Microsoft is buying SwiftKey, but the tech giant isn't as interested in the popular predictive keyboard app as it is its artificial intelligence brains.The tech titan confirmed Wednesday it has acquired the app, which i...

After seeing new shots of Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, Leslie Jones, Kate McKi on and Chris Hemsworth in the upcoming "Ghostbusters" from director Paul Feig, we know exactly who we want to call if we spot a poltergeist.Today the Twitter fan account Ghostbusters Universe News tweeted -- with a ret...

Crashlands is kind of a bit like Don't Starve for people who got frustrated by the unforgiving survival elements. You're a space truck driver, crash landed on an alien planet. You have to gather resources, build a base and gradually craft your way to getting off-world. It's not all aimless, though. ...

Enlarge ImageMagic Leap promises to layer computer-generated images in the real world. Magic Leap Magic Leap has an almost magical way of getting money.The secretive startup is working on what it calls "mixed-reality" technology. It's different from virtual reality we've all heard about, which uses ...

Steve Sanchez was paralyzed in a bicycle accident more than a decade ago. An exoskeleton made by SuitX has enabled him to walk again, and even play soccer. SuitX Paralyzed below the waist from a car accident four years earlier, Austin Whitney did the unthinkable in 2011. He stood up from his wheelch...

Enlarge ImageAmazon's first physical bookstore opened late last year in Seattle. Amazon Amazon usually drives the books you order to your home. Now, it wants you to drive to your books. The online retail giant's concept -- known colloquially as a "bookstore" -- is to open as many as 400 locations na...

In football, it's the job of the offensive line to protect their quarterback. At the Super Bowl, it will be up to federal agents and security specialists to guard the public from any blind sides.As part of their work for the big game on Feb. 7, a security force is using technologies designed to look...

Enlarge ImageMagic Leap promises to layer computer-generated images in the real world. Magic Leap Magic Leap has an almost magical way of getting money.The secretive startup is working on what it calls "mixed-reality" technology. It's different from virtual reality we've all heard about, which uses ...

Steve Sanchez was paralyzed in a bicycle accident a decade ago. An exoskeleton made by SuitX has enabled him to walk again, and even play soccer. SuitX Paralyzed below the waist from a car accident four years earlier, Austin Whitney did the unthinkable in 2011. He stood up from his wheelchair and wa...

The just-a ounced Lego Star Wars: The Force Awakens will include some content exclusive to the PlayStation versions of the game, Wa er Bros. has a ounced.PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 3 players will get two DLC packs: the Droid Character Pack and the Phantom Limb Level Pack. Unfortunately, Wa er Bro...

If you're going to have a Super Bowl near Silicon Valley, the stadium better be wired to handle an onslaught of over-sharing techies. Watch CNET Update to lea how Levi's Stadium is built with enough Wi-Fi co ections to handle 10 times more bandwidth than other NFL stadiums. But if you're watching th...

Cities with teams in the Super Bowl, like this year's Boulder, Colorado and Charlotte, North Carolina, are associated with a lot of things. A run on blue cheese dip and body paint comes to mind. Now researchers say that the home cities of the teams competing for football's greatest title are associa...

Rocket League is becoming even more community focused with the introduction of Rocket Labs, a new way for developer Psyonix to let players try out new and unique maps before releasing them officially.Psyonix revealed exclusively to GameSpot that Rocket Labs will be included in the February update re...

The latest patch for Heroes of the Storm is now available, and it brings with it a new character and the launch of the Lunar Festival event.Li-Ming, HotS' version of the Diablo III Wizard, is now available in-game. As discussed previously, she's meant to be a higher skill-cap character; players are ...

Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that's taken over our lives.Hoisted by his own petard? Yin Bogu/Xinhua Press/Corbis I wonder if Donald Trump is lost in thought today. Many had predicted that he'd win the Iowa Republican caucus. He came second, however. And to quote o...

RoadshowCar IndustryTata Motors renames the Zica because of the Zika virus epidemicEnlarge ImagePerhaps Tata can take a page from Prince and rename it The Car Formerly Known as Zica. Tata Motors In a move that nearly everyone on the planet would consider a good idea, Indian automaker Tata Motors is ...

Enlarge ImageThat's a whole lotta Batfleck. Hot Toys Most people are content with normal action figures that can be lined up in rows and admired on a bookshelf. But some people aren't going to settle for a toy that can get lost behind the couch cushions. They want a figure that will scare the bejeez...

Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that's taken over our lives.The hero and poet himself. RT/YouTube screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET I woke up early this mo ing rolled over and grabbed my cell phone. (I know. Not good.) It was still dark and I opened my weather app....

Enlarge ImageThis isn't J.J. Abrams' "Force Awakens." Video screenshot by Amanda Kooser/CNET Remember all the obsession and excitement as new teasers and trailers emerged for "Star Wars: The Force Awakens?" The movie opened in December of last year, but many spent the months prior poring over detail...