Enlarge ImagePart of the original crew reunites in Barbie form. Mattel If Star Trek Barbies were available when I was child, then I probably would have actually played with Barbies instead of He-Man action figures. It's too late for my childhood, but others will appreciate a new set of Trek dolls ma...

HTC Vive Sarah Tew/CNET You can stop bothering your tech friends to hook you up with a demo of their HTC Vive: the virtual reality system is now available to check out in person at over 100 retail locations throughout the country. Starting now, you can demo the headset and two wireless controllers a...

Enlarge Image Osaka Wheel The humble Ferris wheel may not be the most thrilling of rides, but Japan hopes to give it a 21st-century update.Osaka's Expo City entertainment complex is expected to unveil Japan's largest Ferris wheel on July 1, and it features a host of mode amenities. Each of the 72 ca...

RoadshowNewsCar CultureGet ready for Le Mans: Download Ford's new GT racecar for free on Forza Motorsport 6Enlarge ImageThis is about as close as most of us will ever get to the real thing. Ford This year's 24 Hours of Le Mans is set to be a big one. It's always one of the pi acles of motorsport eac...

Verizon is reportedly wooing Yahoo. Richard Nieva/CNET Verizon could spend $3 billion to acquire Yahoo's Inte et business. The telecom giant pla ed to submit a proposal before the second round of bidding ended Monday for Yahoo's core online assets, an u amed source familiar with the matter told the ...

FBI requests permission to access public "electronic communication transactional records."Photographer: Dave NewmanTech firms and privacy groups are fighting back against an amendment proposed by the Obama administration that would give the FBI a top-level view of your "electronic communicational re...

Vizio has a ounced its range of 2016 sound bars, which range from a single 38-inch bar to a full 5.1-cha el setup, and all now they feature wi-fi streaming as well. The sound bars begin at $180 for the 38-inch SB3830-D0 "subwoofer-less" sound bar and culminate in two 5.1 systems at $500 -- one which...

Instagram version 8.2 lets you upload photos via the "Share" menu in iOS apps CBS Instagram has a ounced an update to its popular social photography app that makes it a little easier for iOS users to upload photos directly from any iPhone app. Though not as divisive as its previous update a ouncing ...

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 11Adapted from the Diaries of Cindy Parker. Terra Sup...

[embedded content] Apple's published eight new videos in its 'shot on iPhone' series, which touts the camera prowess of its iPhone smartphones.Within the last day, eight new videos have been added to Apple's YouTube cha el, and feature a hippo, penguins, bees and a particularly excited dog. Not all ...

[embedded content] New movies are headed to your Netflix account, courtesy of a shopping spree that's seen the streaming service buy the rights to a slew of new films, including Ca es award-wi er "Divines."Director Houda Benyamina took home the the coveted Caméra d'Or award at this year's Ca es film...

Despite a flood taking out the the air conditioning at the Taiwan Taoyuan Inte ational Airport, I was really excited to finally be able to hop on Eva Air's BR216 Hello Kitty flight to head home after Computex. It wasn't because I was a massive Hello Kitty fan (I'm not). It was more because I was swe...

Two new Samsung phones with folding screens could be unveiled next year, if reports conce ing the South Korean tech giant's smartphone plans are to be believed.Samsung is mulling the release of two smartphones with bendable screens as soon as next year, according to a report in Bloomberg, which cite...

Enlarge Image Kevork Djansezian, Getty Images Filipino boxing legend Ma y 'Pacman' Pacquiao has thrown his hat into the tech ring with an investment into Singapore-based mobile gaming company GToken.Pacquiao, a newly minted senator, a ounced on Monday that he had acquired a "meaningful" stake in GTo...

[embedded content] The poor old Nintendo Power Glove may not have been particularly good at its intended purpose as a controller for the NES, but computer engineering graduate Nolan Moore has been able to make it great. As he said on his Hackaday project page, "The ultimate goal of the Power Glove U...

[embedded content] If you've ever found yourself sadly logging out of Minecraft, wishing you could just live in it, the experience may not be quite as fun as you think. YouTube cha el Nukazooka, by filmmaker Andrew McMurry (who does all the VFX) and his friends, has created a video of what Minecraft...

Brock Lesnar. There's three things you need to know about him: He's an extreme genetic outlier, he's one of the UFC's biggest ever box office draws and he currently wrestles exclusively for the WWE.On Sunday at UFC 199 in Califo ia, it was revealed that the WWE had agreed to a special "one off" deal...

Messier 4 as captured by the Hubble Space Telescope. ESA/Hubble & NASA Did you know that stars make sound? Not so you'd be able to hear, of course, not without some intervention, since sound ca ot travel as sound through the vacuum of space. We do know, however, that other information from space, su...

The case of Stanford University swimmer Brock Allen Tu er captured the public's attention on Thursday after a judge sentenced Tu er to six months in prison on three felony counts of sexually assaulting an unconscious woman on the Stanford campus in January 2015.Public outrage over the sentencing, de...

A*STAR Every job has its more boring components. In libraries, one of those jobs is sca ing the shelves, looking for missing and misplaced books, and taking stock of what's available. For human workers, this is time-consuming, repetitive and boring, all of which can contribute to wandering attention...