Enlarge ImageThis artist's impression shows a view of the triple-star system HD 131399 from close to the giant planet orbiting in the system. ESO/L. Calçada Luke Skywalker's home planet in "Star Wars" has two suns and wherever Westeros from "Game of Thrones" is, it suffers from long and weirdly unpr...

Spotify's new tool, Out Of Office, lets users add songs to out of office emails.Spotify now lets you customize your out of office message with songs related to where you are heading.Spotify's new tool, Out of Office (OOO), is available to anyone with a Spotify account. The process is rather simple. ...

Enlarge ImageThis box of Ruby Roman grapes cost more than some cars. The Asahi Shimbun via Getty Images Things you could buy with $350 (or £271, or AU $468):--Two tickets to see Adele in concert, with money left over for parking.--One round-trip flight from New York to Miami, with enough left over f...

Facebook has created a way to download and view its videos offline. CNET Facebook will be testing a new feature in which users can download videos from the site and view them at any time, whether online or offline.Starting July 11, the testing will occur among a small group of people in India, accor...

Apple's newest version of its mobile software iOS becomes available today for a public test drive. Is the beta for iOS 10 worth it? I've been using it for a long weekend, with a preloaded version on an iPhone 6S provided by Apple. As always, going with a beta OS is a bit of a risky jou ey on your ev...

Enlarge ImageNot Earth. Titan. NASA Science still has no solid proof that life exists beyond Earth. But the more we look around the universe, the more we see the potential for life just about everywhere, including in some really counter-intuitive spots. Because we've yet to find life elsewhere in ou...

Enlarge ImageGoogle has beefed up its Now on Tap feature to translate more than just webpages. Google Google's Now on Tap feature has expanded its language translation skills.Now on Tap, which can translate certain languages to and from your native tongue, now supports any mobile app or screen on yo...

The first Star Wars game from Battlefield and FIFA company Electronic Arts following its deal with Disney was 2015's Star Wars Battlefront. It was a big success, having shipped 14 million copies, becoming one of the best-selling Star Wars games of all time. But that's just the start.A sequel is on t...

Developer Turtle Rock has a ounced that co-operative shooter Evolve will now be free-to-play on PC. The news was posted on the official Evolve website, and follows on from speculation that the game would be switching to a F2P model after the studio teased a big a ouncement for tonight.Turtle Rock ha...

A new report from Android Police says Google will introduce its own smartwatches. It is not clear whether these devices will be part of a Nexus line of watches or something entirely different. The two watches are expected to both have round screens similar to the Moto 360. Subscribe: CNET Update del...

In 1984, the Ghostbusters burst onto our screens and left an indelible imprint on generations of kids, including me. The film had everything: the car, the special effects, the quotable dialogue ("Mass hysteria!"). So with a rebooted version about to update the phantasm-fighting foursome for a new ge...

RoadshowNewsCar CultureWatch Rhys Millen set a new EV record at the Pikes Peak Hill ClimbThe Pikes Peak Inte ational Hill Climb event is not for the faint of heart. More than 100 tu s separate the driver at the bottom from the finish line up top, and without guardrails or other safety systems in pla...

RoadshowNewsCoupesHere are the first official pictures of the Acura NSX GT3 racecarMore cars (or all of them) should be offered with exposed carbon fiber. Don't ask what that would do to the average transaction price, though... Acura Acura's released the first official pictures of the NSX GT3 ahead ...

RoadshowNewsCar IndustryVolkswagen may escape Dieselgate fines in GermanyVolkswagen may have been raked over the coals in the US, but the decision to potentially forego fines in Germany shows that home-field advantage isn't a bad thing to have. Alexander Koe er/Getty Images When Volkswagen started s...

Avast has a ounced plans to acquire AVG in a $1.3 billion deal that will combine the antivirus products of both companies.On Thursday, the Prague, Czech Republic-based company said an agreement has been reached that will see AVG bought out in an all-cash deal, made possible through cash on hand and ...

The app will by default open on the World Service, the BBC's inte ational news station, but all of its stations are available. BBC The BBC will for the first time make all of its radio services available to listeners outside of the UK, via the iPlayer Radio app.The Republic of Ireland will be the fi...

Samsung Say bye bye to your pocket full of microSD cards -- Samsung's new UFS (Universal Flash Storage) cards are here to give them a swift lesson in the ceaseless march of progressionThey new cards are as small as microSD cards, but crucially, they're much faster. Samsung reckons the cards can achi...

RoadshowNewsAlibaba joins the automotive party with new 'inte et car'Enlarge Image Alibaba Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba has just revealed its automotive ambitions with the a ouncement of an "inte et car." The mid-size SUV will be made with SAIC, one of China's big four state-owned automakers, an...

Enlarge ImageThe "Cinderalla" story follows the "rise-fall-rise" arc, for instance. Disney You'll never be able to read every story out there, but there's a good chance you've already read every story type.Researchers at the Computational Story Lab at Burlington's University of Vermont data-mined th...

Enlarge Image Andrew Hoyle/CNET Apple Pay is spreading further around the globe.The mobile payment system is launching in Switzerland on Thursday, the company a ounced. Outside of the UK, it's the first European location in which the service has launched. Already available in the US, Canada, Austral...