Enlarge Image Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Science (CIRES) The Milky Way has dominated the night sky for as long as there has been a night sky. Yet for a third of humanity, it's obscured by fog of light, caused by the artificial illumination used at night in towns and cities. ...

President of Sony Interactive Entertainment America Shawn Layden started his keynote by acknowledging the mass shooting in Orlando over the weekend."On behalf of the PlayStation community, I just want to say that our thoughts are with the victims and the families and the community of Orlando," he sa...

Every year we think we're not going to be surprised. And every year the big game makers try their best to pull a swag of rabbits out of their hats.Sometimes it works. Sometimes the rabbit is dead. This year we saw a good range of very healthy rabbits appear. OK, I'll stop talking about rabbits. But ...

Apple's a ual developer conference kicked off with a ouncements on new features for its four platforms, WatchOS, iOS, tvOS, and macOS. However, like every year, hopeful optimists can't help but be disappointed by the omissions on Apple's laundry list of upcoming products.Here are a few features we w...

Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that's taken over our lives.Enlarge ImageTake a deep breath now. Tyler Lizenby/CNET Did it take your breath away?All those bits of software and apps and, well, more apps.Wasn't Apple's WWDC 2016 a little like walking into Burberry's an...

Enlarge Image Google When you're in need of a blood transfusion, you'll be given blood that matches the blood your own body produces. But this wasn't always the case. The reason we know about it is because of an Austrian and American biologist by the name of Karl Landsteiner, who discovered the bloo...

At Sony's E3 2016 press conference, we finally got a release date for PlayStation VR and a tanatslising look at some of the games that will be available.

This AMD-powered portable desktop gaming PC may someday allow Oculus and Vive gaming on the go.

Virtual-reality headsets like the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive require heavy duty desktop gaming PC parts to run, and they require you to be tethered to a PC by a long cable. Seeking to break gamers free of that, Alienware is showing off a reference design of a portable VR-ready PC, built into a slick-l...

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One of the "big" a ouncements at WWDC: OS X will be renamed macOS. CNET Steve Jobs probably would've hated this. The late co-founder was famously obsessed with simplicity. Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference keynote on Monday was anything but, offering a dizzying list of features. "The mother of ...

Enlarge ImageThat's one big chunk of bog butter. Cavan County Museum Aged cheeses are prized for their mature flavor, but 2,000 years may be taking the aging process a little too seriously. On Friday, the Cavan County Museum in Ireland a ounced the discovery of a 22-pound (10-kilogram) mass of "bog ...

Josh Miller/CNET It was arguably one of gaming's worst kept secrets, but during Microsoft's Xbox press conference Monday at E3 2016 it was made official: Gwent is now a standalone game.Originating as a card game in The Witcher 3 video game, it was a fan favourite element. Developer CD Projekt Red sa...

If you were waiting for the Apple TV to offer something revolutionary that upsets the TV world as we know it, relax. The latest improvements to the company's set-top box are meaningful, for sure, but amount to more baby steps for Apple aficionados than giant leaps for mankind.At the company's World ...

At the World Wide Developers Conference Apple a ounced a bunch of small improvements and additions for the Apple TV box and tvOS software. Here's a peek.

iOS 10 is introduced Monday at Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference. CNET Apple's new iOS 10, introduced Monday at the company's Worldwide Developers Conference, comes with a slew of new features, such as facial recognition, better Siri, QuickType, Memory Feed, all-new iMessage, and so on. But un...

Tyler Lizenby/CNET A lot of us have been waiting for smarter smart home controls from Apple -- now, with new improvements to HomeKit in iOS 10, Apple wants to deliver.First a ounced two years ago during the WWDC 2014 keynote, HomeKit is a set of protocols for how smart home products should communica...

Apple introduced its upcoming Mac operating system at WWDC 2016: MacOS Sierra Tyler Lizenby/CNET At Apple's developer conference, WWDC 2016, Senior Vice President of Software Engineering Craig Federighi introduced eight new major features coming to Apple laptops and desktops ru ing the company's upc...

RoadshowNewsCrossoversMercedes' GLC F-Cell is the first plug-in fuel cell vehicle everEnlarge ImageYou'll probably be able to ditch all the look-at-me vinyl covering the GLC F-Cell. Hopefully. Mercedes-Benz Right now, hydrogen cars are stuck in a world that isn't yet ready for them. While a small nu...

Remember when Apple's Siri was useful? No? Me neither. Apple is expected to unveil new features that will ensure the digital assistant is a bigger part of our lives. Aside from reminders and weather updates, how often do you actually say, "Hey, Siri"?We'll get the answer at Apple's developer confere...