The rise of clicky mechanical keyboards is a very unsubtle reminder the accessories we choose have a real impact on the people around us. If you're looking to go full incognito on your coworkers, Logitech just a ounced two new mice at IFA that are basically the opposite of a mechanical keyboard. Log...

Enlarge Image Microsoft The next-gen racing game Forza Horizon 3 went gone gold on Tuesday, and with the final game off to be pressed onto disc comes another surprise for rev heads: Halo's warthog, another Microsoft mainstay, will be making its way to the console-exclusive racing game.The space-age ...

[embedded content] When drinking your favorite soda, do you ever wonder if it's slowly rotting away your teeth? A young scientist who goes by the name of Chase took over YouTuber Tom Scott's cha el to find out once and for all which soda does the most dental damage -- Coca-Cola or Mountain Dew.In th...

Enlarge Image Kawasaki If you want to fight crime with an automotive companion, a la Knight Rider, we've got some good news -- Kawasaki is developing a lea ing, talking artificial intelligence for its motorcycles.Although in the early stages of development, the new system, named the Kanjo Engine (wh...

Enlarge Image Screenshot by Luke Lancaster/CNET She looked good as ever in the US Open's first round, so it's appropriate that Snapchat is showcasing Serena Williams' 22 major tou ament victories.Snapchat Discover usually makes use of the platform's photo and video sharing to serve up ads, but the E...

Beats co-founders Dr. Dre and Jimmy Iovine did not conspire to defraud their former partner at Monster, a judge finds. Beats by Dre A judge has dismissed the heart of a lawsuit against Apple's Beats Electronics that claimed that the high-end-headphone maker's co-founders conspired to sever the headp...

Uber has hired Target's chief marketing officer to help the ride-hailing company boost its global brand.Jeff Jones is jumping ship from Target to Uber. Target Jeff Jones will joining the San Francisco-based startup as president of ridesharing, making him responsible for Uber's operations, marketing ...

Close Are cloud services good enough to store our digital life? (Open_Tab) Drag Dropbox, Amazon Cloud, Google Drive -- these services all promise to make everything from baby pictures to work documents available on any device. But at what pain points? Jeff Bakalar, Roger Cheng and Ben Fox Rubin talk...

Apple is expanding the capacity of its iCloud Drive storage service. CNET Apple has doubled the maximum amount of data users can store on iCloud Drive, now offering 2 terabytes to customers of its online storage service.Apple's new storage capacity will run customers $19.99 per month, twice the $9.9...

Your appliances and gadgets love electricity. It's the stuff that brings them to life, but too much can be a bad thing. If the voltage of the electricity coming in over your wires suddenly rises, that can damage them. Electrical engineers call this kind of problem a transient voltage surge, because ...

Artist's representation of a crumbling Dyson sphere. Danielle Futselaar/METI Inte ational Another weird signal from the cosmos has scientists checking for E.T. attempting to make an interstellar call. So far, it's looking like nobody's home and something natural or some sort of human interference is...

Enlarge ImageDead dinosaurs tell no tales, but their tails live on. ASOS Open the door, get on the floor. Everybody walk (like) a dinosaur! The 1988 song by Was (Not Was) can come true for you this Halloween -- or really, any random day -- with a strap-on dinosaur tail.The tails are in the inventory...

Mophie makes some nice exte al batteries for charging devices, with sleek aluminum housings, but the knock against them has been that they're expensive.Well, the company got the message and has priced its new models more competitively. It's also adding even more charging options, including an update...

This isn't about the first time I played World of Warcraft. Nor is it about the last time, or any of the half a dozen times I quit forever. It's about this feeling I get when I come back to the game, as I have done, and have resigned myself to do over and over again.I've been playing World of Warcra...

Enlarge ImageA SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off at Cape Canaveral, Florida, on July 18, 2016. Bruce Weaver/AFP/Getty Images Satellite operator SES and rocket maker SpaceX on Tuesday a ounced plans to launch the SES-10 satellite into orbit on a used Falcon 9 rocket. The SES-10 will replace SES's AMC-...

Niantic Labs In the last month, Pokemon Go developer Niantic has been stepping up its ba ing game, cutting off users who use third-party services to help them become Pokemasters. Bans were given to players using add-on maps that show Pokemon locations, emulators that allow you to play the game on a ...

How could you be mean to these faces? Enik Kubinyi If you like to insult your pup using a sweet voice (you monster), chances are you're probably just confusing the poor canine, according to new research. A team of scientists from Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest, Hungary used functional magnetic...

Operation Lico e ("Operation Unico ") nuclear test, May 22, 1970. Getty Images Air pollution, climate change, population growth, massive rainforest loss: The effect humanity has had on the Earth is undeniable. And, in the last 60 or so years -- since the time just after World War II -- this change h...

Enlarge ImageGoogle Crowdsource lets you help the company with language translation, handwriting recognition and map translation accuracy. Screenshot by Stephen Shankland/CNET Google has a formidable artificial intelligence team working on everything from photo recognition to email spam filtering. B...

RoadshowNewsThis dongle will let you know if your car is about to breakdownSingapore startup Carmen has plans to make your car smarter, and it's doing so by tapping into the power of the cloud. Much like Verizon's Hum service in the US, Carmen uses an On Board Diagnostic reader that's co ected to yo...