Facebook isn't researching user data all willy-nilly. Instead, there's a review process that squares research with the company's privacy policy and involves ethicists and experts from inside and outside the company. That's according to a blog post published Wednesday by two people involved in managi...

Samsung's On5 phone will cost under $200 at T-Mobile and MetroPCS. T-Mobile T-Mobile and Samsung paired up on Wednesday to launch two new budget devices to the carrier's lineup, the Galaxy On5 smartphone and the Galaxy Tab E tablet.T-Mobile isn't the first to pickup the Galaxy Tab E; Verizon has a h...

Enlarge ImageArtistic rendering of gravitational waves caused by merging black holes. NASA A massive collision between two black holes 1.4 billion light-years away has yielded a second set of gravitational waves for scientists with the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO). The ...

The upcoming "Doctor Who" spin-off series "Class" will have an openly gay lead character. "Class" creator and writer Patrick Ness tweeted the news on Monday. Originally the character's sexual orientation was meant to be kept under wraps until the show's debut, but in the wake of Sunday's deadly mass...

Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that's taken over our lives.Revenge po seems to have moved to loans.Cyber Civil Rights InitiativeRevenge po is one of the Inte et's nastier inventions.The idea that you can post naked images of your former lover either to humiliate or ...

Andrew Hoyle/CNET Don't worry about leaving the basement to make a phone call.Starting today, AT&T is bringing Wi-Fi calling to Android phones. The LG G4 is the first to get the service. If you have an AT&T G4, you should get a notification, inviting you to download the software update. Check out CN...

Enlarge ImagePaying with a Capital One credit card could ea you a free trip in an Uber. Tony Savino/Corbis/Getty Images/Uber Uber is rewarding your loyalty with free rides -- if you're a Capital One customer.Uber, the globally popular app that lets you dial up a private-hire car from your phone, has...

RoadshowNewsCar IndustryNo, Germany isn't mandating electric cars -- not yet, at leastRest assured, petrolheads -- your inte al combustion engines aren't going anywhere just yet. Marie Waldma /Photothek/Getty Images Believe it or not, not every news story on the inte et is entirely true. You might h...

Game Center, your bubble has burst. Screenshot by Kent German/CNET Users of iOS who have longed dreamed of deleting Apple's preinstalled apps from their devices will finally get their wish with iOS 10. And now, Apple is taking its own step in that direction by removing its Game Center from the first...

"Mr. Robot" follows hacker Elliot as he takes on the world of capitalism. USA Network Privacy, security, corrupt corporations and abuse of power were the big issues addressed in the first season of USA Network's hit show "Mr. Robot." However, as the series progresses into ideas of revolution and eco...

An update is coming to a 100-year old classic. Kent German/CNET In a day to remember for font geeks and transport nerds alike, Transport for London (TfL) a ounced yesterday that it was updating the century-old font it uses across the London Underground.In a blog post by Monotype, the firm that helpe...

Enlarge ImageDonald Glover. Ilya S. Savenok, Getty Images Sony's Spider-Man reboot got a little bigger today, as "Community" alum and rapper Donald Glover joined the cast, Variety reports.Glover is joining a cast that already includes Tom Holland as Spider-Man, who made his debut in "Captain America...

Just two weeks after its May 24 release, Overwatch had reached 7 million players. One of them was Tesla's Elon Musk. I mean, sure, that's impressive, but it was still noticeably short of the 9.7 million that flocked to the free open beta before the game's release. But now, Blizzard's new team-based ...

Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that's taken over our lives.Enlarge ImageA room full of people will tweet. It's just what they do. Twitter May I tell you a secret?My general experience is that if you ask someone to keep a secret, it's a fine way for that secret to em...

Enlarge ImageWhere the molecule was found, not far from the centre of the galaxy, Sgr A*. B. Saxton, NRAO/AUI/NSF from data provided by N.E. Kassim, Naval Research Laboratory, Sloan Digital Sky Survey It's such a tiny thing, the molecule, yet one found 25,000 light-years away could help solve one of...

Earlier this week at a security presentation at WWDC, Apple a ounced that iOS apps have until January 1, 2017, to enable a security feature called App Transport Security.ATS was first introduced with iOS 9, and it forces apps to use HTTPS co ections rather than HTTP co ections when co ecting to the ...

Napster's retu . Rhapsody You probably remember using Napster to get a lot of music about 15 years ago before the file-swapping service was essentially sued out of existence.The once-high-flying brand is about to be resurrected. Not as the peer-to-peer platform many used to (illegally, it tu ed out)...

Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that's taken over our lives.Enlarge ImageA scene from a seminal Samsung ad, in which the company mocked Apple fanpersons standing in line for a launch. Samsung/YouTube screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET Companies mock other companies ...

Enlarge Image Star Wars colognes, for those days when you want to smell like a Jedi. Lifetime Fragrances It doesn't seem as if the characters of the Star Wars universe would ever smell very good. It's gotta be sweaty in those stormtrooper uniforms and crammed in those X-wing cockpits. And someone's ...

The wasteland is about to become a lot more immersive, as massive post-apocalyptic hit Fallout 4 is coming to VR, alongside the recent reboot of the fast-paced first-person shooter, Doom, both from game publisher Bethesda. Despite massive hype over virtual reality headsets such as the Oculus Rift an...