Guess what? A big football game is happening this Sunday. (It's being aired on CBS, CNET's parent company.) It's the 50th Super Bowl, the final game in the NFL season that determines who wins a shiny Lombardi trophy. It's about four hours long, it has a long halftime show, and everyone you know will...

Google's self-driving car technology gets plenty of test time in the labs before taking to the streets. Google Google's autonomous cars drive millions of miles each day along virtual roads. In its self-driving car report for January, Google notes that actual road testing is a vital but that simulati...

The Apple Watch is triggering greater interest in smartwatches, says Gartner. Apple The Apple Watch may be just what the smartwatch market needed. Smartwatch unit sales will jump from 30 million last year to 50 million this year and 66.7 million in 2017, Gartner said in a research note released on T...

RoadshowCar IndustryCompliance isn't clean enough for Fiat ChryslerEnlarge ImageIn the US, FCA's diesel offerings are limited to its Ram pickups. Fiat Chrysler Automobiles Automakers continue to fall under scrutiny in the wake of Volkswagen's Dieselgate brouhaha. Some, like Daimler, insist everythin...

You're sitting in a coffee shop, your eyeballs glued to the phone. YouTube is open, and you're waiting for the latest comic-book movie trailer to load. Instead, you get the oh-so-familiar circular loading icon instead. And it keeps spi ing and spi ing. It's at these moments when you wonder if this i...

In football, it's the job of the offensive line to protect its quarterback. At the Super Bowl, federal agents and security specialists will be guarding the public from any blind sides. They will be using technologies designed to keep an eye out for signs of danger, be it on the ground, in the air or...

You're sitting in a coffee shop, your eyeballs glued to the phone. YouTube is open, and you're waiting for the latest comic-book movie trailer to load. Instead, you get the oh-so-familiar circular loading icon instead. And it keeps spi ing and spi ing. It's at these moments when you wonder if this i...

Enlarge ImageTV cameras captured footage of the "sticker kid" who stood behind Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton during her "victory" speech (there's quotes about victory because it's still too close to call) making him one of the biggest memes of this year's Iowa caucuses. Video scr...

Encryption won't stop surveillance. Law enforcement will soon be tapping smart-home devices to keep tabs on suspects.Image by De is Skley, CC BY-ND 2.0Encryption may not protect criminals as much as we have been led to believe.The FBI and other law enforcement authorities are exaggerating the extent...

We absolutely love the Dutch National Police's approach towards illegal drone flights: send in trained eagles to take down rogue crafts! Also, Switzerland might be facing some serious traffic infrastructure issues in the coming decades, and one conceptual solution would involve building a large unde...

Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that's taken over our lives.Cyclo-cross is a tough sport. UCI/YouTube screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET They used to just dope the humans.This seemed the most logical way of getting bicycles to go faster and making the riders live st...

Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that's taken over our lives.Ronald Jackson still has his daughter's phone. WFAA screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET Mode parenting requires all the skills of a lawyer, a psychologist and spy. Few, therefore, are qualified.It's rare, th...

Enlarge ImageRuth Porat, Alphabet's CFO, gave us new information about the company's experimental projects. Ringo Chiu/ZUMA Press/Corbis Alphabet, the new parent company of Google, is the Willy Wonka factory of tech: driverless cars, Wi-Fi beaming balloons, glucose-reading contact lenses and even pl...

The strangest things can be captivating.If you told me a video of someone slicing into a clementine with a scalpel would hold my attention for a full three minutes and sixteen seconds, I would have scoffed. Then I watched just that on a new YouTube cha el launched by an anonymous user who goes by th...

Enlarge ImageThe Hovervault is sized to hold a regular hoverboard. Hovervault I get it. Those two-wheeled personal scooters that are popularly known as hoverboards look like a heck of a lot of fun, and they're as close as most people will ever get to having a real hoverboard. It's no wonder consumer...

The Curiosity rover has been sending back selfies from the surface of Mars for a few years now, but they don't quite paint the picture of what it's like to be a robot so far from home. Fortunately, NASA, using tech from a team at Facebook, put together a nifty interactive panorama to give smartphone...

Ruth Porat, Alphabet's CFO, gave us new information about the company's experimental projects. Ringo Chiu/ZUMA Press/Corbis Alphabet, the new parent company of Google, is the Willy Wonka factory of tech: driverless cars, Wi-Fi beaming balloons, glucose-reading contact lenses and even plans for smart...

Android fans, mark your calendars for Feb. 21. Samsung's Galaxy S7 and LG's G5 will say hello to the world on the same day later this month, just before the start of the year's biggest mobile trade show, Mobile World Congress. Watch CNET Update below for some highlights of what to expect from Samsun...

Enlarge ImageYou can see the drone's light from unde eath the bird's wing. Video screenshot by Amanda Kooser/CNET Aerial drones are small, tricky and fast, but they have their predators. We've seen them taken out of the air by flying pumpkins, chimps, firefighters and birds of prey. Pumpkins are dif...

Enlarge ImageDemocratic candidate Hillary Clinton courts caucus votes in the run up to Monday's first in the nation Iowa caucuses. Bob Daemmrich/Corbis As the first votes of the 2016 presidential primary season are cast at the Iowa caucuses tonight, new Microsoft technology will be used to give up-t...