To become an astronaut, you already need to be pretty highly skilled. But in order to tell the story of spectacular IMAX documentary "A Beautiful Planet", the crew of the Inte ational Space Station needed to add a new skill: filmmaking. Narrated by Je ifer Lawrence, "A Beautiful Planet" is a reveali...

Making a big jump into renewable power, Apple last year invested $850 million in a Califo ia solar farm. That facility was supposed to provide enough renewable energy for Apple's new campus in Silicon Valley, all of its other offices in Califo ia, all of its retail stores in the state and a data cen...

"Warcraft" is in theatres now, bringing the epic war between humans and orcs from video games to the big screen. But with decades of complex fantasy lore to draw on, newcomers may have a few questions.So we've do ed our thinking helms to answer some obvious questions the film leaves unanswered. That...

Enlarge ImageAlienware prides itself on making some of the most powerful PCs you can buy. Sarah Tew/CNET Ask any gamer out there about playing games on a PC, and they'll tell you about Alienware. The Miami-based company has been building gaming PCs for 20 years. It's become one of the most recogniza...

Enlarge Image"Warcraft" (the movie) treats fans to big screens versions of the orcs and other familiar races. Legendary There are two types of people in the world: the alliance of gamers who have played World of Warcraft, and the horde of folks who don't know the Pit of Gorgrond from a hole in the g...

Software, software and even more software. That's what Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference is all about, and this year won't be any different. Apple may be best known for its hardware, but it's really the seamless integration of its hardware with its software that has set it apart from rivals. It...

Enlarge ImageAlienware prides itself on making some of the most powerful PCs you can buy. Sarah Tew/CNET Ask any gamer out there about playing games on a PC, and they'll tell you about Alienware. The Miami-based company has been building gaming PCs for 20 years. It's become one of the most recogniza...

Software, software and even more software. That's what Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference is all about, and this year won't be any different. Apple may be best known for its hardware, but it's really the seamless integration of its hardware with its software that has set it apart from rivals. It...

Open up Google Maps on your phone and, depending on where you are, you'll see some streets, some buildings and a blue dot. That blue dot is you, in "YOU ARE HERE" form. When you move, it moves. The dot is helpful when you're walking around outside, but if you're indoors -- in an airport, a mall, or ...

The team behind Deus Ex are making video games a reality, and solving a very real problem at the same time, with a new bionic arm inspired by the cyberpunk world of Deus Ex: Human Revolution. Using their expertise in "near-futuristic art direction and augmentations," the game's creators Eidos-Montre...

Congrats to Cherry A. of Boston for wi ing a collectible "Captain America: Civil War" art book last week. Are the NBA playoffs driving your own hoop dreams? We're giving away a Blast Basketball Replay, which records and analyzes data on your court performance and suggests drills to make you a better...

A picture paints a thousand words in Facebook comments. Facebook The advice most of us live by when it comes to surviving on the inte et is, "Don't read the comments."But you can forget reading the comments, with news that Facebook will now let you upload videos in comment threads. When you click th...

"Key & Peele." Comedy Central If you've been at a loss since "Key & Peele" ended on TV last year, we have good news. The comedy duo have released their entire back catalogue of sketches, including 176 that were previously unavailable online, in one "authoritatively and unequivocally complete archive...

Samsung Pay is also available in Korea, China, the US and Spain. Jessica Dolcourt/CNET Samsung phone owners in Singapore will soon be able to make mobile payments through Samsung Pay come June 16, though this is limited to those owning the Galaxy Note 5, S6 Edge+ and the newer S7 and S7 Edge devices...

Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that's taken over our lives. You're giddy. You've going to leave your high school behind. You can thank the good teachers and snub the ones who made your skin tu to cobblestones. One small piece of advice: I'm not sure Twitter is the b...

Enlarge ImageAerial photo of the monument, with architectural details and dimensions. Photo by I. Labianca, graphics by J. Blanzy; Bulletin of The American Schools of Oriental Research A monumental structure has been discovered at the World Heritage Site of Petra, the ancient city carved into the cl...

Tom Perkins, founding partner of legendary venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, has died at age 84.Perkins died Tuesday at his home in Tiburon, Califo ia, of natural causes after a prolonged illness, his assistant told the New York Times. A spokeswoman for Kleiner Perkins Caufield ...

Plex Good news for Nvidia Shield owners: Not only can it run Plex's Android TV, but it will soon be able to run its Full Media Server, including support for hardware-accelerated video transcoding (H.264, MPEG2 and HEVC) with multiple simultaneous streams.For those who've never heard of Nvidia Shield...

Jacob Krol/CNET Philips was in New York recently to show off some future health technology as part of its I ovation Experience.There was some interesting stuff, but one thing that stood out was a "contactless monitoring" system that was able to show your pulse and breathing rate without anything tou...

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks in New Jersey. Steve Sands/WireImage The former FLOTUS was quick to thank the current POTUS.Hillary Clinton and her staff took to Twitter on Thursday to thank President Barack Obama for his endorsement of the former secretary of state and sena...