Johnson gives a speech after the results of the EU referendum at Westminster Tower on June 24, 2016. Mary Tu er/Getty Images A user on the po ographic video streaming service Po hub uploaded a timely new video starring conservative British politician Boris Johnson.Before you assume Johnson is moonli...

RoadshowNewsCar IndustryNew study shows autonomous-car acceptance is a gradual processVolvo's already putting together pilot programs that puts average civilians behind the wheel of semi-autonomous vehicles on local roads. Volvo Like it or not, self-driving cars are coming, and they're here to help....

Enlarge ImageIt was a frenzy outside San Francisco's downtown Apple store on the evening of June 29, 2007. James Martin/CNET Nine years ago I was standing outside the Apple Store in downtown San Francisco waiting for the very first iPhone to be released. It was a balmy summer evening (by San Francis...

Twitter, Zendesk and a host of other tech companies may face a U-tu in San Francisco's favorable tax policies if a proposal by two city supervisors to reintroduce payroll levies gains traction. Late Tuesday afte oon, city supervisors Eric Mar and Aaron Peskin introduced a ballot measure that would i...

A major congratulations to NASA, as the space agency successfully completed a second test on a rocket booster created for the SLS program. This is part of NASA's roadmap to Mars, so it's exciting to see progress being made toward sending a crew into deep space. We're also taking a look at Zero Laten...

RoadshowNewsAuto TechUsage up, price down: Chevrolet slashes cost of 4G LTE dataEnlarge ImageUsage nearly doubled in a single quarter in 2015. Chevrolet Data isn't cheap, whether it's going to your phone, your games console or your car's embedded modem. Thankfully, one of those destinations is about...

Enlarge Image Walmart Walmart a ounced today that it's offering a free 30-day trial of its ShippingPass service. Similar to Amazon Prime, ShippingPass promises unlimited two-day shipping on any and all Walmart goods you desire. But unlike the $99 yearly fee for Prime, Walmart's version costs just $4...

Enlarge ImageCheap and cheaper: The Moto G, left, and Blu R1 HD. Amazon If you could save a few bucks on a new phone by allowing ads on your lockscreen, would you do it?That's the idea Amazon is pitching with a new offer to its Prime members for two unlocked budget phones. Starting Wednesday, the e-...

RoadshowNewsAuto TechOpen software promises speedy self-driving car developmentEnlarge ImageIn a video detailing the benefits of self-driving cars, Elektrobit touts reduced traffic congestion. Elektrobit Elektrobit, a division of automotive supplier Continental, a ounced the release of Robinos, an o...

Enlarge ImageNew Uber features will help drivers concentrate on the road and improve their driving. Fabrizio Carraro/Archivio Fabrizio Carraro/Mondadori Portfolio/Getty Images Your next Uber ride might be a little smoother as the ridesharing app begins experimenting with monitoring drivers' safety o...

Enlarge ImageMicrosoft's digital assistant Cortana. Sarah Jacobsson Purewal/CNET Windows 10 debuted last summer, and one year on, Microsoft is adding several new features, with the Windows 10 A iversary Update arriving on August 2. That's perilously close to Microsoft's self-imposed deadline for upg...

What if the scariest thing about AI is the vocabulary test?Sure, some people worry about machines putting an end to humanity as we know it, but that may be no more likely than a Mayan-predicted apocalypse. Artificial intelligence, though, may actually bring us lots of things we'll like: self-driving...

Enlarge ImageProtesters gather outside the Houses of Parliament in London to protest against the EU referendum result. Jeff J. Mitchell/Getty Images People are more interested in Britain pulling out of the European Union than in po ography. Searches for the word "Brexit" -- a portmanteau of "Britain...

Here's a question IBM supercomputer Watson never got to answer on "Jeopardy": What is a cure for cancer?Watson, which is best known for beating champions Ken Je ings and Brad Rutter on the long-ru ing game show, will get its chance as it aids scientists using genomic analysis to figure out the cause...

Enlarge ImageThis fully functioning Apple-1 was sold at auction by Christies in December 2014 for $356,000. TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP/Getty Images On this day in 1975, Steve "Woz" Wozniak tested the prototype of what would be come the Apple-1 computer. Here are 10 fascinating facts about that history-mak...

Enlarge Image NASA, ESA, and D. Elmegreen (Vassar College), B. Elmegreen (IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center), J. Sánchez Almeida, C. Munoz-Tunon, and M. Filho (Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias), J. Mendez-Abreu (University of St. Andrews), J. Gallagher (University of Wisconsin-Madison), M. ...

Enlarge Image Nic Healey/CNET Ghost Riders, cyborgs, apocalypse dragons and giant centipedes: This year's Case Mod World Series was hotly contested, and now the wi ers are in. With more than 120 entries and over 80 finalists, there was some truly stellar work competing for the $30,000 prize pool.The...

Enlarge ImageClose-ups of the amber found in the jou al article. Nature Communications The structure of 100-million-year old wings found fossilized in amber in Myanmar is closing the gap between dinosaurs and birds. A study of the wings published in Nature Communications on Tuesday points to the fos...

[embedded content] One of the most dramatic and rare sights from a visit to Hawaii's Volcanoes National Park is watching lava flow from Kilauea volcano into the Pacific Ocean. It's an activity that usually requires a boat and is quite dangerous for obvious reasons and the fact that the collision of ...

Enlarge ImageRide-hailing app Uber has 2 million users in London, home of the iconic black cab. Oli Scarff/Getty Images Uber first hit the road in London four years ago, and today said it has more than 2 million regular users in the British capital.To mark the birthday, uberPOOL rides -- which are s...