Rapper Kanye West pla ed to release his album "Life of Pablo" only on subscription service Tidal this year. Getty Images The flashiest US music awards show will start considering tunes released solely through the music industry's biggest business now: streaming.The group that runs the Grammy Awards ...

Kaname Hayashi is known as the "Father of Pepper". Groove X Kaname Hayashi has found a new obsession.Hayashi is the "father of Pepper," the charming humanoid robot from Japanese carrier SoftBank Mobile and French company Aldebaran Robotics. Pepper, with its circular doe eyes and welcoming smile, is ...

Getty Images Apple's iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus have been ba ed from Beijing. Beijing's intellectual property regulator has ordered the Cupertino-based company to stop selling the two older iPhone models in the capital city. according to The Wall Street Jou al.The design of the two models looks too ...

Does the idea of a unified chassis and body send chills down your spine? Some of these body-on-frame bruisers still exist. Here are the ones you can still pick up.

Juan Garzon/CNET Facebook is one of the largest services that has yet to join T-Mobile's Binge On program, however that may soon change. The two companies are said to be in talks about adding Facebook to the carrier's unlimited streaming program, according to a report from Recode.T-Mobile launched B...

Twitter accounts associated with ISIS got gay pride graphics. Screenshot by Stephen Shankland/CNET A hacker associated with the Anonymous activist group has given several Twitter accounts a pro-gay look after a Sunday attack that killed 49 people in a gay bar in Orlando."You had all those i ocent li...

Google's Android mascot. Stephen Shankland/CNET Google paid 82 people a total of $550,000 in the last year for finding security vulnerabilities that could let hackers compromise phones, tablets, cars and other gadgets powered by the company's Android software.The company launched the Android Securit...

RoadshowNewsCar IndustryVolkswagen's comeback tour stars 30 electric vehicles and a whole lot of batteriesEnlarge ImageIf every electric VW resembled Budd-E here, I'd be okay with that. Antuan Goodwin/Roadshow To anyone who's been following the news since, oh, last September or so, it shouldn't come...

This is "Crowd Control: Heaven Makes a Killing," CNET's crowdsourced science fiction novel written and edited by readers around the world. New to the story? Click here to start. To read other past installments, visit our table of contents.Chapter 14Click on the book cover to read past installments o...

RoadshowNewsHatchbacksCapaciousness on the cheap: Chevrolet prices 2017 Cruze Hatchback at $22,190Enlarge ImageChevrolet has no new pictures of its Cruze Hatchback. Is that worrying? Maybe a bit. Chevrolet Automakers aren't placing too much faith in hatches and wagons, and for good reason. Crossover...

The retu of the MacOS. (Do you WWDC what we did there?) Tyler Lizenby/CNET If you've spent years struggling to say "OS 10" instead of "OS x", Apple's finally put you out of your misery. We're breaking down its desktop operating system rebrand, plus all the new features coming to the iPhone and Apple...

RoadshowNewsSUVsWatch this Land Rover Discovery Sport pull 200,000+ pounds of trainAmericans, we need to step up our tow-marketing game. US pickup ads are littered with horse trailers and more outdoorsy-themed hitch-kitsch. Meanwhile, the Japanese are towing space shuttles and now, the Brits are tow...

Google Photos slideshows automatically advance through an album of pictures. Google The Google Photos team, steadily improving its service for saving and sharing pictures and videos, has added a new ability to show slideshows."It's now possible to play a slideshow from any album. Just open the album...

Those hamburger emojis you tweet spell profit for advertisers. Claire Reilly/CNET Hamburger, hamburger, taco, praise hands? Yes, we know you're hungry by the emojis you tweet out, and now advertisers will too.Twitter has unveiled a new feature allowing advertisers to target specific users with splas...

Enlarge ImageThe Bebop's camera lens has a 180-degree angle of view and a 14-megapixel sensor, and the gadget can capture video at 1,080p full-HD resolution. Joshua Goldman/CNET Editor's note: Some giveaways require leaving a comment to enter, but not this one. We've tu ed off comments on this post ...

Google's Zurich offices will now be home to a dedicated machine lea ing team. Google Google Translate, Google Photo Search, Google Smart Reply -- it made its name in search, but Google is becoming a global powerhouse in machine lea ing, and it's not stopping any time soon. The company that calls Mou...

The lonelygirl15 YouTube series is getting a reboot. Screenshot by Claire Reilly/CNET In 2006, Twitter was just a few months old, your MySpace Top 8 was prime real estate and lonelygirl15 captivated the inte et with her first vlog. What started as a series of webcam videos, filmed by a 16-year-old g...

Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that's taken over our lives.Enlarge ImageAyesha Curry was not happy. Ayesha Curry/Twitter screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET In the aftermath of Game 6 of the NBA finals, Golden State Warriors' coach Steve Kerr said in a press confere...

Enlarge Image Marvel Studios Sony is clearly aiming to up its geek cred on the upcoming "Spider-Man: Homecoming" film, a ouncing the casting of "Silicon Valley" misanthrope Martin Starr in the film.Starr, who made a name in "Freaks and Geeks" and is now known as Gilfoyle in "Silicon Valley," will ap...

For something new and original and exciting, indie development is the best place to look. Here are the indie games from E3 worth keeping an eye on.