If you use mobile apps in China, the gove ment will be watching.The Chinese gove ment is expanding its strict inte et monitoring efforts into one of the most widely used features of today's smartphone, mobile apps.According to a report from Bloomberg, the Cyberspace Administration of China posted ne...

Enlarge ImageLogMeOnce's new feature will give exact information about when and where a request to log in was made. What if you never had to remember another password again? That's the promise coming from LogMeOnce, a company that says it'll store all your passwords in one secure place and that now ...

Have you ever wanted to buy fish oil supplements with the simple push of a button? No? Well, Amazon's got you covered anyways.On Tuesday, the online retailer introduced more than 50 new Dash buttons, which are small, plastic widgets that people can click to purchase consumables like cat litter or Re...

Enlarge Image Shiseido Want to know if you really do have a nice smile? A company in Japan now has an app for that.Tokyo-based cosmetics giant Shiseido is launching an app that rates smiles from a scale of 0 to 120. You'll use the front camera of a smartphone or tablet like a mirror, and the app wil...

Enlarge ImageNorton Wi-Fi Privacy promises security on public Wi-Fi networks. Norton Norton is pushing hard on mobile with the launch of a new mobile VPN, but forget about torrents and accessing overseas Netflix catalogues: The company says it just wants you to stay safe on public Wi-Fi.The company ...

The upgraded satellite image of New York shows details like skyscrapers and baseball fields compared with the older version on top. Google If you've just tu ed on satellite imagery for your Google Map or Earth apps and wondering if your eyesight has gotten better, well, the answer is probably no. Go...

Enlarge Image NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS Just as Cassini has spent 12 years giving us an unprecedented look at Satu , so too does NASA hope the Juno probe will provide invaluable information about our solar system's biggest planetary resident. After nearly five years en route to Jupiter, Juno has nearly ...

The "Tetris" movie will soon be become a trilogy. The Tetris Company You're not going crazy. The "Tetris" sci-fi movie, which has since become a Chinese movie with Chinese actors, has now morphed into a trilogy, says a report from Empire. Filmmaker Larry Kasanoff, says the the story behind the film ...

Enlarge ImageBuilt from scavenged and stolen ploughs, Ned Kelly's famous armour was impervious to bullets. The State Library of Victoria Of all the figures in Australian history, Ned Kelly, bo in December 1854, is the most legendary. The petty criminal catapulted into full-blown outlaw status after ...

This new giant centipede species is capable of swimming and hunting in the water. Warut Siriwut et al/ZooKeys There's a new centipede in town, and it's one that you shouldn't mess with. The 7.9-inch long S. cataracta, Latin for waterfall, features the ability to swim and a venomous bite. The good ne...

Enlarge Image Lady Gaga/Facebook China is known for having a heavily censored inte et, with a system dubbed the Great Firewall of China blocking local access to sites like Facebook and Twitter. Now, it looks like that same Firewall will also block access to any mention of musician Lady Gaga.Chinese ...

[embedded content] Ever feel bothered by the same old boring selfie poses because your hand is permanently attached to your camera? Well this Australian-made Roam-e Flying Selfie drone camera should help you get a bit more creative, if you can stomach the fact that it looks like a flying carrot.Reta...

Airbnb filed a lawsuit Monday against its hometown of San Francisco to block new amendments to a city rental law that would require the startup to remove hosts from its service that haven't registered with the city.The amendment, which goes into effect next month, requires short-term rental companie...

[embedded content] SpaceX's quest for a reusable rocket has been through many challenges, culminating in a triumphant landing of the Falcon 9 on a barge in the Atlantic Ocean earlier this year. The first four tries resulted in explosions, a fate that a cute drone version of the Falcon 9 manages to a...

We're already head over heels for Anki's newest creation: Cozmo, a tiny robot that the company claims is one of "the most sophisticated consumer robots available today." Anki says it worked very hard on giving Cozmo a legitimate personality that adjusts and lea s based on how you play with it, which...

Right now, the closest things to Google phones are the devices in the company's Nexus program. Juan Garzon/CNET It's the ete al question for Google: Will the search giant come out with its own version of the iPhone?Apple tu ed itself into one of the most powerful companies in the world on the streng...

Enlarge ImageThe European Southe Observatory's Very Large Telescope captured this infrared image of Jupiter in preparation for the Juno spacecraft's arrival at the giant planet in July. ESO/L. Fletcher NASA's solar-powered Juno spacecraft has been cruising through space for about five years since it...

RoadshowNewsAuto TechAll about the benjamins: Study ranks Toyota ahead of Tesla on self-drivingEnlarge ImageLux Research rated the top 12 automakers on their self-driving car efforts. Lux Research It may seem odd to rank Toyota ahead of Tesla when it comes to self-driving cars, in light of Tesla's v...

Enlarge Image Aloysius Low/CNET Singapore is quickly becoming a testbed for the mobile payments scene. With the recent a ouncements of Apple Pay and Samsung Pay's availability in the island state, Google's Android Pay makes its official debut here -- its third market after the UK and US.The service ...

Best Buy's new pilot project: an in-home consultation service. Best Buy You've been able to call Best Buy and its Geek Squad team to tune up your tech since the two partnered up back in 2002, but now the electronics retailer is testing out a new in-home consultation service that will bring expert ad...