Watch your back, Greedo. There's a new Han Solo in town. JOHN MACDOUGALL/AFP/Getty Images One of the most coveted acting roles in the galaxy has finally been cast.Disney said Sunday that Alden Ehrenreich, the break-out star of Coen Brothers movie "Hail Caesar!", will be taking on the mantle of "Star...

The rise of virtual-reality headsets, including the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift, has led to a surprising arms race in gaming desktops, a category that's languished in the past few years. Adding fuel to the fire is a new generation of graphics cards, the most important component in a gaming or VR-ready ...

This Sandringham was owned by Charles Blair, Jr. while he was married to Maureen O'Hara. He used it in his Caribbean airline business (though when he owned it, it was called "Southe Cross"). It was built in 1943 as a Sunderland Mark III, converted to a Mark V with Pratt & Witney engines in 1944, and...

Got an HTC Vive headset? You can become a Jedi in the Star Wars universe for free this Monday.Star Wars: Trials on Tatooine, a lightsaber virtual-reality experiment we checked out in March, is coming to the Steam VR platform as a free download, said ILMxLab, Lucasfilm's immersive-entertainment divis...

By now you might have seen some rumors about the next iPhone, presumably called the iPhone 7, not having a headphone jack. That means you won't be able to plug your standard wired headphones into the phone. You'll have to use headphones that have a Lightning cable (or Lightning adapter) or a Bluetoo...

Enlarge Image"Mr. Robot" follows hacker Elliot Alderson (played by Rami Malek) as he takes on the world of capitalism. USA Network In USA Network's "Mr. Robot," a disaffected cybersecurity worker teams up with a group of Inte et anarchists calling themselves "fsociety" to take on giant corporation E...

Enlarge ImageGal Gadot is ready for battle in the new "Wonder Woman" movie. Entertainment Weekly Can't wait until next year to see "Wonder Woman" in action? Luckily, for us anxious fans of the Amazonian princess who fights for justice and truth, while protecting mankind, we get a few new images from...

In a small, simple building near the water in Southampton, England stands the Solent Sky museum. Dedicated to flying boats and other aircraft built in the Southampton and Solent area, like the Supermarine Spitfire and the razor-thin Supermarine S.6 seaplane racer, it's a unique slice of aviation/nau...

Enlarge ImageMembers of activist groups ColorOfChange and Credo Action chant while delivering 500,000 petition signatures to Google's HQ. Credo One by one they dropped out.Hewlett-Packard, which donated $1 million in funds and tech equipment to the past two Republican National Conventions, abruptly ...

The success of Pokemon Go has been a wild ride thus far: we've seen fans doing all kinds of wacky, dumb and genius things in order to capture adorable augmented-reality pocket monsters over the past week. People have been afflicted with Pokemon fever for 20 years, and an opportunity to do it on thei...

We love to love old. Throwback Thursdays. Flashback Fridays. '80s covers bands. Most often we love it for the novelty. It's fun, but ironic. Particularly with technology, it's rare that we see true value in the old. "Here's To Being Brave" challenges that.The short film follows an elderly man at the...

Simon Pegg, in his seminal geek sitcom "Spaced", said "it's a fact, sure as day follows night, sure as eggs is eggs, sure as every odd-numbered Star Trek movie is..." Well, not good.Lucky him, he got to share screenplay duties with Doug Jung on "Star Trek Beyond", the third movie in the rebooted ser...

Enlarge ImageThe President of Turkey addresses citizens through an iPhone. Burak Kara, Getty Images If all else fails, grab a smartphone.When the Turkish military reportedly began shutting down inte et services like Facebook and Google during an alleged coup Friday, the country's president, Recep Ta...

If seeing the president of the United States (Mark Cuban!) surf down a staircase in the US Capitol on a presidential portrait sounds stupid, or you don't snort-laugh at April (Tara Reid, because of course) successfully giving birth inside the belly of the shark that swallowed her, you're not on boar...

Facebook, Twitter and YouTube are reportedly being blocked in Turkey during what appears to be an attempted military coup. Military factions in Turkey tried to take control of the country Friday night, according to media reports, as some social media sites went dark. Many residents appear to have go...

If you live in a landlocked city or state, you may never have been required to defend your al fresco lunch from a pack of hungry and determined seagulls. But it's enough of a problem in some areas of Australia, apparently, that technology has come to the rescue.Hungry Jack's, the company that franch...

Which Pokemon Go character are you? The results are shocking. Today Russ and Jeff breakdown the mobile phenomenon, blow on the cartridge of the NES Classic Edition and discuss what they bought on Amazon Prime Day. The 404 Show # 1669 Your browser does not support the audio element. Download today's ...

RoadshowNewsCar CultureThe race is on for Pokemon Go What happens when you really want to catch Pokemon? Well, if you review cars, you use them to help you get them all!With a 2016 Mazda3 and a 2016 Chevy Tahoe sitting pretty in our garage, we decided to see which would be the PokeRally wi er. With ...

Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that's taken over our lives.What do you see here? Screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET When the rumor spread that Donald Trump would choose Indiana Gove or Mike Pence as his presumptive veep, the wags came out on Twitter. Perhaps the mo...

RoadshowNewsCar CulturePorsches, Porsches, Porsches and some other stuff: Our week on InstagramSome weeks, there's a good, overarching theme to bring together our plea to have you follow us on Instagram. If you haven't figured it out by this point, we've got a pretty solid theme going this week. If ...