The '90s were an exciting decade. America Online flooded our mailboxes with install CDs so we could access the inte et with ease. Everyone danced the Macarena. Fa y packs were a fashionable way to carry around valuables. And Beanie Babies seemed like a good investment. And the drink of the day? It w...

Screenshot by Jessica Dolcourt/CNET Using Twitter, Change.org and her own site, inte et personality Akilah Hughes pitched an assault against popular website BuzzFeed. Using the hashtag #StopBuzzThieves (which was trending on at least one CNET editor's Twitter page), Hughes and her supporters allege ...

The S Pen stylus in Samsung's upcoming Note 7 could have a brand new surface to skate on, if the latest rumor is true. This year's version of the Note line, which is known for the power of its digital pen, could ditch the Note 5's pin-straight sides and adopt vertical curves like the S7 Edge, accord...

Perhaps Android Nuomici would have been better? Wikipedia/Public domain The wait is over, and once again we have a new version of Android to look forward to, complete with a name that honors yet another sweet treat... I think. Android N will heretofore be known as Nougat, which is, uh, what the heck...

Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that's taken over our lives.Enlarge ImageKim Jong-zuck? James Martin/CNET Many younger types imagine Facebook as a nirvana where you skateboard down corridors, code all night long and wait for the money to start rolling in.Antonio Garc...

RoadshowNewsAuto TechThese omni-directional car wheels are basically witchcraftNormally, if you need to rotate a car in a small space, you get a set of wheel dollies that pick the car up off the ground, using very little human effort. But what if your car could do that on its own, without additional...

Screenshot by Jessica Dolcourt/CNET Great news, fans of awesome movies! Actor John C. Reilly retu s to the animated screen on March 9, 2018 as Wreck-It Ralph in Disney's "Wreck-It Ralph 2." Unfortunately, the plodding a ouncement that Disney made on Thursday through Facebook Live video nearly quashe...

Giroptic Giroptic strapped one of its forthcoming 360cams to the back of an eagle flying near Scotland's Loch Goil to stu ing effect. Though don't expect a drone-style steadicam shot: eagles, it would appear, are well-suited to fly through wind and turbulence.The video -- the latest of many on Girop...

AT&T is about to put its money where its mouth is. The first offer in a brand-new customer rewards program dubbed AT&T Thanks hits today, with the carrier promising one free movie ticket when you pay for the first one at full price. On a Tuesday. This summer. At AMC or Regal theaters. After validati...

Verizon customers may soon get a bunch of perks. The nation's largest carrier is likely set to unveil a rollover data program, a way to remove overage fees and better access to Canada and Mexico. It'll make the carrier more competitive, but we discuss whether it'll actually get folks to jump ship. W...

Google a ounced Android N is now Nougat via Snapchat.Android N is officially called Nougat. Google made the a ouncement via Snapchat on Thursday. In May, Google asked fans to name its latest Android release. Releases typically have names of confections, like lollipops and marshmallows. Let's block a...

RoadshowNewsSedansHappy 40th a iversary, Honda Accord!They may not make it any longer, but Honda's had an Accord Wagon in its lineup several times throughout the years. Honda Back in 1976, a plucky little three-door hatchback appeared on the market. It was called the Honda Accord. While it was prais...

Netflix released the fourth season of "Orange Is The New Black" worldwide on June 17. JoJo/Whilden/Netflix Netflix jealously guards data about the audience for its original shows, but Nielsen's attempt to puzzle it out hints that at least one of those shows really is big. "Orange Is the New Black" p...

Enlarge ImageFacebook can resume using cookies to grab data on nonmembers in Belgium. James Martin/CNET Facebook won an appeal in a Brussels court Wednesday in a case that pitted it against the Belgian Privacy Commission. An earlier ruling had ordered Facebook to stop using cookies, which are small ...

Go to the movies or tu on a TV, and you'll quickly lea to fear artificial intelligence. The power of rogue computers is one of Hollywood's most popular topics. Call it an existential fear of the unknown, or perhaps a sense of our own mortality. Whatever our future actually holds, we're fascinated to...

The Olympics are venturing into virtual reality for the first time, letting you beam yourself into the middle of your favorite event -- but only if you have a Samsung Gear VR and pay for cable or satellite. Samsung and its Gear VR headset will be the exclusive virtual-reality device to watch the fir...

Using controllers alongside VR headsets like Oculus Rift and HTC Vive make for immersive experiences, but Microsoft Research just released a video showing off a concept allowing a player to precisely interact with objects in VR using their bare hands.We're also taking a look at an interesting open s...

Thomas Ross, a businessman from Miramar, Florida, believes that Apple's iPhone, iPad and iPod stole the "essence" of his Electronic Reading Device, which he conceived in 1992. He's suing the tech giant for $10 billion in damages, and feels confident about his chances.Ross's concept, which never went...

Ask Apple's Siri digital assistant if she's evil, and she'll respond curtly, "Not really." Repeat a famous line from the movie "2001: A Space Odyssey," in which a computer on a spaceship kills nearly all the human crew, and Siri groans. "Oh, not again." And who can blame her? We humans have a morbid...

Enlarge ImageVanity Fair caricatures of Samuel Wilberforce (left, July 1869) and Thomas Huxley (right, January 1871). Vanity Fair Charles Darwin's "On the Origin of the Species," published in 1859, tu ed out to be a tremendously important work of scientific literature. However, like many scientific ...