Doubling down: Amazon investing $3 billion in India - CNET
Enlarge Image James Martin/CNET As Indians increasingly move to e-commerce to do their shopping, Amazon is giving domestic companies a big reason to worry.Company CEO Jeff Bezos on Tuesday a ounced that his company will be investing an additional $3 billion in India. This takes Amazon's total invest...
A mysterious cosmic bubble captured in rainbow microwave - CNET
Enlarge Image ESA and the Planck Collaboration There's a lot of weird stuff in space. And a lot of that weird stuff is invisible, so we need to go poking around with things like radio telescopes and interferometers to try and figure out what's out there. One of these tools is the European Space Agen...
Video shows how to incubate an egg without the shell - CNET
Enlarge Image Screenshot by Michelle Starr/CNET You can't unscramble an egg (unboiling them is another matter), but you may still be able to get a living chicken out of one even when there's no shell. According to a video posted to the Facebook page of website Spoon & Tamago, a high school biology c...
Pichai, Zuckerberg, Cook among top 50 CEOs in America - CNET
Larry Page is a tough act to follow. But Google CEO Sundar Pichai is holding his own.Enlarge ImageGoogle CEO Sundar Pichai ea ed the No. 7 spot on Glassdoor's a ual list of top CEOs. James Martin/CNET Page led last year's Glassdoor list of the top 50 chief executives in the US. Pichai grabbed the No...
The Harvard RoboBee has a new trick up its sleeve - CNET
Enlarge ImageA budding swarm of RoboBees. Kevin Ma and Pakpong Chirarattananon The stated goal of the National Science Foundation is to create autonomous robots capable of sustained flight. Enter the RoboBee, and exit any last hope I had of avoiding a swarm of robotic, insectoid death in future.Late...
EyeForcer sees a way to prevent tech neck in kids - CNET
Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that's taken over our lives.Enlarge ImageWill your kids agree to wear these things? EyeForcer As a civilization, we're regressing.Where once the evolutionary chart showed us becoming ever more upright, we're now devolving and our postu...
Yahoo trying to sweeten sales pot with patent portfolio - CNET
Yahoo is stepping up its fire sale with the addition of a portfolio of about 3,000 patents it hopes will fetch more than $1 billion, sources tell The Wall Street Jou al.The beleaguered web pioneer has in recent weeks sent letters to prospective buyers who might be interested purchasing the patents, ...
Man lives for over a year without a heart in his body - CNET
Enlarge ImageStan Larkin with his "heart" in a backpack. University of Michigan Health System Getting an organ transplant isn't simple. There simply aren't enough organs available to accommodate everyone who needs one. In the US alone, there are over 121,000 people on the organ transplant waiting li...
Google Motion Stills turns your Live Photos into GIFs - CNET
Tu ing your Live Photos into shareable GIFs just got so much easier thanks to Google. Today the company released a free iOS app, Motion Stills, that allows you to do just that.Motion Stills is an iOS app from Google that converts Live Photos into animated GIFs. Google Google claims that the app stab...
Mom says Apple's Siri helped save baby's life - CNET
Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that's taken over our lives.Enlarge ImageGiana, on the right, is now fully recovered. Yahoo 7 News screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET The baby monitor showed Stacey Gleeson that her 1-year-old daughter Giana had tu ed blue.She went to...
Google's AI software is moving into your iPhone - CNET
Google TensorFlow is neural network software core to artificial intelligence technology. Google Google's TensorFlow software, smart enough to help vanquish the world's top Go player and answer your email, is coming to your iPhone.On Monday, Google published an early version of TensorFlow (the 0.9 re...
Is T-Mobile running out of ideas? (The 3:59, Ep. 57) - CNET
T-Mobile is giving away pizza and stock, but is that enough to win a customer over?The latest Un-carrier a ouncement sounds great on paper, but we break down whether any of us would actually take advantage of these freebies. Even if it's a nice gesture to buy goodwill, T-Mobile's latest move is a fa...