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"We want to make stuff that people love. Games that we want to play ourselves," Squanchtendo Games said on its website. Squanchtendo Games Fans of "Rick and Morty" know co-creator Justin Roiland as the voices of both main characters on the hit Adult Swim animated comedy. But Roiland also has another passion aside from voicing quirky characters. On Thursday, Roiland aounced Squanchtendo Games, a new virtual-reality studio created with former Epic Games executive producer Tanya Watson."We just want to make super duper games dooood," Roiland said on the company's website.While Squanchtendo Games hasn't released any info about the games the new VR company will be creating as of yet, Roiland and ...

Enlarge ImageCanon's EOS 5D Mark IV introduces a new dual-pixel raw photo format. Canon Don't panic, Lightroom fans, Adobe Systems will support the new photo format Canon tucked into its hot new SLR, the EOS 5D Mark IV.Adobe's Lightroom, for editing and cataloging photos, has a particular emphasis on "raw" photo formats that offer more editing flexibility and image quality than ordinary JPEG but that are more of a hassle to handle. Canon's new $3,500 5D Mark IV, introduced Thursday, adds a new variety called dual-pixel raw that lets photographers fine-tune focus after a shot was taken. To take advantage of dual-pixel raw, though, photographers will have to use Canon's own raw-processing soft...

Enlarge ImageA visitor from Proxima b? Video screenshot by Eric Mack/CNET This week, humans aounced the discovery of Proxima b, an exoplanet orbiting Proxima Centauri just four light-years away, and began immediately speculating about what life it might host and how to visit. The aouncement comes decades after the publication of "evidence" that "Cenos" aliens from a planet in the Proxima Centauri system had already made the trip between our planets.According to this evidence, the aliens are about 8 to 8.5 feet tall, humanoid in shape and five times stronger than humans. They eat tasteless pills and have no need for sleep. They visited a number of ancient civilizations on Earth and were most ...

Close WhatsApp to share data with Facebook Drag WhatsApp just aounced that it updated its terms and conditions to permit the company to opt-in all one billion of its users to share information with Facebook. Facebook will take that information to find friends and also target ads better. WhatsApp is also working on ways for businesses to communicate to users from the app. Subscribe: CNET Update delivers the biggest tech news of the day, breaking down trends, hot devices, new apps and what's ahead. Subscribe to the podca...

Enlarge ImageSo many emoji, so little time. CNET Have you ever had that really important thing you needed to say, but just couldn't find the right emoji with which to say it?Emjoi 4.0 may finally offer an answer. It's the latest update for these popular little drawings, which is being plaed for release after a review later this year, and it promises to include new professions, flags and functionality to help us all communicate in that slightly more artistic way.Emoji of course feel like they've taken over the world. The tiny drawings, whose name comes from combining the Japanese terms for picture and character, have become a frequent tool of communication in the mode age. They've invaded all...

Close Robots can now be your in-store greeter, what jobs should they take next? (Open_Tab) Drag Pepper the robot paid a visit to the United States this month to bring a new type of customer service to the country: "She" can read your emotions and react accordingly.In this excerpt from Open_Tab, Jeff Bakalar, Mike Sorrentino and special guest Joshua Goldman chat about what it would be like to have a machine like Pepper in a department store, the jobs that robots could take away from helpless human beings in the future and...

Your airline will soon be able to tell you when your flight is delayed via WhatsApp. WhatsApp WhatsApp users, get ready for messages from companies looking for your business.That's the upshot from Thursday's update to WhatsApp's terms and conditions. The company outlined in a blog post the kind of interactions it wants to enable, including being notified by your bank about a potentially fraudulent transaction or being waed about a delayed flight. These are things we might currently be informed about by a text message or phone call. WhatsApp hopes to enable these notifications too, all while keeping spam and third-party baer ads out.This is the first time WhatsApp has updated its terms in fou...

Enlarge Image Screenshot by Luke Lancaster/CNET Try tweeting an eggplant at @NYPLEmoji and see what you get in retu.Created and curated by New York Public Library reference librarian Lauren Lampasone, the Twitter bot will respond to any emoji tweeted at it with a surprisingly relevant image from the library's extensive archive.The Jack O' Lante, for example, retued a vintage Collier's magazine cover. The eye emoji got a Mario Bettini science drawing in retu. The poop emoji gets a look-in too, of course.You can see the full source code for how the bot works, if you're so inclined. Otherwise, you can just revel in the database of curated pairings for whatever emoji you want to fling at it.The ...

On this date in 1916, President Woodrow Wilson signed into law the National Park Service Organic Act, which mandated the creation of the National Park Service "to conserve the scenery and the natural and historic objects and wildlife" found inside the United States and make them available for public enjoyment. To celebrate the centeial of the service, Google has created an animated doodle that takes viewers on a virtual coast-to-coast tour of some of the sites and sounds that can be found on the 84 million acres of land designated as protected since the agency's creation. Starting with a collection of iron-on souvenir park patches, Google shows us the various wildlife that can found in some ...

Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that's taken over our lives.Enlarge ImagePokemon Go was released in Japan on July 22. Tomohiro Ohsumi, Getty Images Perhaps it was always going to happen somewhere, sometime.In Tokushima, Japan a truck driver was allegedly playing Pokemon Go at the wheel on Tuesday evening. Reuters reports that his truck plowed into two women who were crossing the road, killing one and injuring the other.The driver reportedly admitted to the police that he'd been playing the game.He is a 39-year-old farmer, according to CNN. It said that the women, in her 70s, died after suffering a spinal injury.It's unclear what injuries were suffered by the ...

Enlarge ImageYolanda Jones makes her pitch to "Cleveland Hustles" host Bonin Bough (left) and Twitter executive Adam Bain. Terry Collins/CNET Last week, Yolanda Jones had 23 seconds to sell high-level tech leaders in San Francisco on why NBA superstar LeBron James should give her SF-based company an online endorsement.In a matter-of-fact pitch, Jones wooed the basketball star's representatives -- tech mogul Bonin Bough and Twitter Chief Operating Officer Adam Bain -- on Yolanda's Construction Administration & Traffic Control, or YCAT. Cameras caught every word: The pitch was part of the #PitchLeBronContest, a national promo tour for James' executive-produced reality TV show, "Cleveland Hustl...

Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that's taken over our lives.Enlarge ImageThat's a lovely look. WLS-TV screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET I tend to find the silly in the apparently serious.Occasionally, though, the obviously silly comes along and I think: "Wait, might that be actually serious?"And so it was that on the pages of WLS-TV in Illinois, I espied a man with bottles and cans stuck to his head.I grew up with quite a few people who crushed cans on their heads. But this was something far more elevated.It seems that Jamie Keeton has some sort of magical properties in his body that cause inanimate objects to stick to him.The sheer delight of being able to...

Close Galaxy Note 7 vs. S7 Edge drop test Drag The Galaxy Note 7 had an eye-catching Super AMOLED screen with subtle curves on either side. But after seeing so many Galaxy S7 Edge phones fall and crack on the edge, we've leaed this much beauty usually comes at a price.Can a tougher glass and a smaller curve toughen up the Note?The Note 7 is the first phone made with Coing's Gorilla Glass 5 which can fall from up to 1.6 meters onto rough, hard surfaces, according to Coing. That goes for the front and back of the phon...

What's under your bed? A few dust buies, maybe a sock, a rumpled Kleenex? How about a pearl that weighs 75 pounds (34 kg) and may be worth $100 million (£75 million, AU$131 million)? That's what a Filipino fisherman kept under his bed for a decade, reported The Guardian on Tuesday, citing local Palawan News. The unidentified man reportedly kept the giant object beneath his bed as a good-luck charm, touching it before he would go out fishing. But recently, he tued it over to his aunt, Aileen Cynthia Maggay-Amurao, who put the giant gem on display at the Puerto Princesa City Tourism office where she works. She's now asking for gemologists to help test the pearl's authenticity.[embedded content...

Enlarge ImageLeslie Jones (right) has been targeted by some of the worst elements on the inteet. Hopper Stone The worst parts of the inteet have tued their sights on Leslie Jones.Over the past month, the comedian and "Ghostbusters" star has been the target of people sending racist and misogynist messages over social media. The campaign against her appeared to intensify after she called attention to it in July. Now, hackers appear to have broken into her personal website and potentially other accounts, posting personal information such as her driver's license and passport, as well as intimate photos, according to TMZ. The photos were also posted next to a video of Harambe, a 17-year-old goril...

Enlarge ImageThe two Koreas. Google South Korea has delayed its reply to Google's request for mapping data, a Reuters report said Wednesday. The Alphabet property first reached out to South Korea in June, requesting access to govement-held mapping information for distribution to outside servers. This would allow Google to offer complete Google Maps services there. South Korean officials had previously agreed to reach a decision by Wednesday but have now pushed their decision to November 23. According to Reuters, the information would improve South Korea's maps, but officials want to take more time to weigh security conces. North Korea and South Korea are technically still at war.Let's block ...

[embedded content] It's hard not to be impressed by Disney's CGI makeover of Rudyard Kipling's "The Jungle Book." Leave it to Honest Trailers, a YouTube series from Screen Junkies that features a classic movie-trailer voiceover but with a narrator who makes fun of films, to lay down blunt opinions about the 2016 film. In a video posted Tuesday, Honest Trailers points out that Disney seems obsessed in its latest mission to reboot all its animated classics into live-action movies. However, the usual mocking tone from Honest Trailers gives way to actual compliments about the film's stuing visuals. "This movie is way better than it deserved to be," the Honest Trailers narrator says in the video....

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Enlarge Image Google 2016 was a big year for VR, and it's about to get bigger. Google will be launching its Daydream VR platform in a matter of weeks, Bloomberg reports. Alphabet, Google's parent company, is said to be investing big money on content for the platform. Much of this is going toward development of video games and apps, licensing sports leagues and shooting 360-degree videos, many of which include YouTube stars, according to the publication. Daydream is being built into the Android 7.0 Nougat operating system, which launched this week. It said back in May that Samsung, HTC, ZTE, Huawei, Xiaomi, Alcatel, Asus and LG had agreed to make "Daydream ready" smartphones. The idea of the ...

Less than two months before succumbing to cancer, ailing Apple co-founder Steve Jobs resigned from the office of CEO on August 24, 2011. Tim Cook (left), who had been the company's Chief Operating Officer since 2004, took over the top spot at the world's preeminent technology company. In the five years since his ascension to the CEO position, Cook has made a unique imprint on Apple, becoming a more vocal social activist than his legendary predecessor, and even directly taking on the US govement in a high-profile fight for digital privacy. In terms of Apple's products, however, Cook has largely taken a conservative approach, shepherding evolutionary changes to the existing product line (iPhon...