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Enlarge Image Google Who doesn't enjoy a good pop-up ad? Everyone, that's who. Now Google is trying to be the ultimate bro, aouncing on Tuesday that it'll soon be punishing mobile sites with obstructive advertisements. "Pages that show intrusive interstitials provide a poorer experience to users than other pages where content is immediately accessible," product manager Doantam Phan wrote in a blog post. "This can be problematic on mobile devices where screens are often smaller. "To improve the mobile search experience, after January 10, 2017, pages where content is not easily accessible to a user on the transition from the mobile search results may not rank as highly."Pop-up ads that cover t...

Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that's taken over our lives.Enlarge ImageHe's not a fan of Bluetooth. Is anyone? EPA/Corbis So many are worried about the jack hitting the road.It's becoming a very serious issue.If Apple removes the headphone jack from the next iPhone -- some say it will be called iPhone 7 -- then what will the world do?Now Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak has lent a mouth, as well as an ear, to the debate.As the Australian Financial Review reports, Woz isn't positively moved by the idea of no perfect hole in which to plug in his headphones."If it's missing the 3.5mm earphone jack, that's going to tick off a lot of people," Woz told the Review.O...

Enlarge ImageAshley Madison still boasts about its 47 million member base. Ashley Madison "Life is short. Have a dedicated risk management process in place to protect personal information."That's not a sexy tagline for a dating website that encouraged members to conduct extra-marital affairs. But it's one that Ashley Madison might be wishing it adopted after it was hacked last year. Now, the Canadian company behind Ashley Madison, Avid Life Media (ALM), has been the subject of a scathing report from the Privacy Commissioner of Canada and the Australian Privacy Commissioner, criticising ALM's actions following the massive data breach. (In July this year, ALM rebranded as Ruby, though the repo...

Sorry, Maine. You sounded like a really nice place to visit, what with your beaches, B&Bs, lighthouses and lobsters. We could even overlook the fact that your native son, Stephen King, seems to be determined to convince everyone in the world you're full of killer clowns, possessed cars, rabid St. Beards and spooky fog that tus people inside-out. (Well, maybe that last one was "The Simpsons.") But there's no way to overlook the 10-foot-long (3-meter) snakeskin that police in Westbrook, Maine, photographed and waed their citizens about in a Facebook post.[embedded content] If you read the Facebook comments, you can see that some are convinced this is a hoax, that a shed snakeskin was planted b...

[embedded content]Ask not for whom the giant blue screen of death tolls, it tolls for thee.This all-too-nightmare-inducing photo was taken in Pattaya, Thailand, at the CentralFestival Pattaya Beach shopping mall, and shared on Facebook by Blake Sibbitt. Apparently, a problem has been detected, and the mall will be shut down. Or, you know, at least the outdoor signage.But forget reality, it's more fun to picture this five-story version of the infamous Windows system-crash screen as something out of a future "Terminator" movie, when Skynet has taken us over and is about to take the planet down for good. Or maybe out of a "Black Mirror" episode, where a skyscraper's crash is preceded by a skysc...

Subscribe to the CraveCast Podcast: RSS HD | RSS MP3 | iTunes HD | iTunes MP3 | FeedBuer HD | FeedBuer MP3 | SoundCloud | TuneIn| Stitcher | Google Play | YouTube | Livestream The CraveCast Podcast, Ep. 27 Your browser does not support the audio element. - The CraveCast Podcast show notes and links:Star Trek at 50Trekkie gets starry-eyed at her first convention10 best Star Trek episodes, according to the fansAnd Star Trek's worst episode ever is...Shatner talks Star Wars, Pokemon Go and 'Twilight Zone' monstersGeorge Takei calls 'Star Trek Beyond' gay Sulu scene 'a whisper'Whoopi Goldberg shares 'Next Gen' secrets at her first Star Trek conventionFans pay tribute to Anton Yelchin at aiversar...

Fitbit did not misappropriate Jawbone's trade secrets, a US trade court judge finds. Dave Cheng/CNET Wearable-device maker Fitbit did not steal trade secrets from rival Jawbone, a judge for the US Inteational Trade Commission ruled on Tuesday.Judge Dee Lord, who issued the ruling, concluded that no violation of the Tariff Act occurred because "no party has been shown to have misappropriated any trade secret," according to Reuters. Had a violation of the act been identified, Fitbit could have been prohibited from importing its products and components into the US.The two wearable-tech companies have in the past year increasingly found themselves at odds not just in the marketplace but the cour...

Three big-time Microsoft-published games, Halo Wars 2, Scalebound, and Crackdown 3, were originally set to come out in 2016. However, they were all delayed and are now slated to launch next year.Now, Xbox marketing boss Aaron Greenberg has explained the thinking behind pushing these projects. He told DualShockers in a new interview that the creative process sometimes necessitates delays."As you go through that creative process, some times things happen fast, some times they take longer than you expect," he said. "For us making the games great, making sure the stories are great, the graphics are great in these immersive experiences, is a priority."In some cases, this takes more time than orig...

[embedded content] When making a grand romantic gesture, most of us opt for expensive chocolate or a candlelit dier for two. When couple Angela Nikolau and Ivan Beerkus wanted to show off their affections for each other, they decided to climb one of the world's highest construction sites in Tianjin, China. At 1,957 feet (597 meters), Goldin Finance 117 -- also known as China 117 Tower -- will be one of the world's tallest buildings when completed. Hotel search site Travel Ticker posted a YouTube video on Monday of first-person footage shot by the couple as they scaled a crane on top of the skyscraper one death-defying step at a time. While the video is fun to watch, Travel Ticker reminds vie...

Firaxis and 2K have continued their unveiling of the various playable civilizations in the upcoming Civilization VI, and the latest to get the spotlight is Spain.Led by Philip II, Spain players will want to focus on spreading religion and expanding to other continents. This is true for a number of reasons, including the fact that Spain's special ability, Treasure Fleet, causes trade routes between continents to provide extra yield. Spanish ships can be combined with one another to create fleets sooner than those of other civs, providing a way to ensure those waterbound trade ships stay protected. On the religion side, Spanish units get a combat bonus when facing off against units of another ...

Enlarge Image YOSHIKAZU TSUNO/AFP/Getty Images Gundam is big in Japan -- so big, it's spawned video games, manga and even an academic institute. Now, the giant Japanese robots are being brought into VR. One of the geekier tourist attractions of Tokyo is a to-scale, 35 toe, 18-metre tall Gundam statue. Using HTC's Vive virtual reality technology, Gundam fans can now bring this statue to life. Named the "Gundam VR Daiba Assault", the VR experience allows you to be cradled in that Gundam's mechanical hand as it comes to life to battle against its Zeon enemies. Using a mixture of a VR simulation of the area outside of Tokyo's Diver City plaza and a motorised seat replicating the hand and thumb o...

You might think of drones as friendly things, like the DJI Phantom you fly yourself or those Amazon drones that could soon be delivering your groceries.Think again when it comes to military drones. An MQ-9 Reaper unmaed aerial vehicle with a 66-foot wingspan can loiter 50,000 feet above the Earth for a day at a time, poised to hit a target with a devastating 3,800 pounds of Hellfire missile payload. But as with all weapons, the awesome firepower of a drone needs to be aimed accurately. "It's less about technology than about strategy, about the way it's deployed," said Gavin Hood, director of drone drama "Eye in the Sky," out now on DVD and Blu-ray. "Drones are new but still a weapon of warfa...

The back-and-forth over which carrier has the best network continues, with Verizon Wireless taking the latest win. The nation's largest carrier also proved to be the best, according to the results taken from the first half of the year from testing firm RootMetrics. Along with the best overall performance, Verizon took the top spot in reliability, speed, data, calling and text message. AT&T finished second in every category except for calls, where Sprint edged out its rival. The results, which didn't differ much from RootMetrics' second-half 2015 test, give Verizon further ammunition as it touts the superiority of its network. These tests are critical to carriers as they sell you on the stren...

ESA/Hubble & NASA, Y. Chu When some stars die, they die gloriously, exploding in a dazzling supeova and leaving behind glowing gas and dust to mark its passing. This is what happened in the case of DEM L71, the remnant of the explosion of a white dwarf, located some 160,000 light-years away in the Large Magellanic Cloud, seen in a new photograph captured by the Hubble Space Telescope.DEM L71's demise was a little complicated. It was what is known as a binary star, whereby two stars are close enough to be locked in a mutual orbit around each other. The very hot white dwarf in these pairings is extremely dense, with mass comparable to that of the sun in a volume comparable to that of Earth. Th...

Enlarge ImageThe NeXT computer Tim Beers-Lee used as the first server for the World Wide Web.CoolcaesarInteauts, today we celebrate this glorious technology that brings us all together! On August 23, 1991 -- 25 years ago today -- the public gained access for the first time to the World Wide Web, designed and deployed by computer scientist Tim Beers-Lee at CERN in Switzerland.It gave rise to the inteet as we know and use it today.The inteet and the World Wide Web are not interchangeable. The inteet was first coected in 1969, and refers to the network that carries information between nodes. The World Wide Web refers to the space on this network where information, such as web pages and document...

Close 3 reasons to believe the OnePlus 3 hype Drag Are you looking for a new phone to take back to school, or maybe you're in desperate need of an upgrade? We want to help!CNET wants to give you the opportunity to get your hands on the OnePlus 3, the wier of our June 2016 Editors' Choice award with an overall score of 8.9 and a bottom line that says it's "the best budget Android phone you can buy, with a premium look and feel, and performance fast enough to go head-to-head with any high-end handset on the market."We've...

Microsoft Gamers rejoice! Microsoft has revealed a new design, and it's everything you ever wanted in an all-in-one garment for your console gaming needs. The limited edition Xbox Onesie, as it is called, has been revealed in Australia to help celebrate the launch of the new Xbox One S console, available from today in both 500GB and 1TB models. The Xbox Onesie will be available in both black and white versions, with a bunch of features that Microsoft touts as "everything an entertainment enthusiast could need when streaming a favourite TV show or film, watching sports or embarking on the ultimate gaming session."These features include giant pockets to fit controllers and remotes, an extra-la...

People play at the Pokemon Go augmented reality game in Lillo, Belgium, a village that harbors rare Pokemon and as been flooded with Pokemon GO hunters since the mobile game launched. Nicolas Maeterlinck/AFP/Getty Images Pokemon Go play has peaked and is already in decline, according to investment adviser Axiom Capital Management.The number of daily active users, downloads, engagement and time spent on the app each day are off their highs from just a month a go and are showing a downward path, according to data, collected by Sensor Tower, SurveyMonkey and Apptopia, which was supplied to Bloomberg by Axiom. That will be welcome news to investors and executives alike at Facebook, Twitter, Tind...

Enlarge ImageFacebook's censorship policies are a confusing mess. James Martin/CNET After Korryn Gaines entered her Baltimore apartment earlier this month, she pulled out a shotgun and then her phone. She opened the Instagram and Facebook apps so she could post details of her standoff with the police. Facebook cut her off. Gaines wasn't the first black person to post about a run-in with the police. Others include Philando Castile, whose fiancee streamed live video on Facebook as he died after a police officer shot him in July. A few days later, a protester streamed a sniper attack on Dallas police on the social network. But her clash marked a tuing point in the conversation about Facebook's ...

Paper always seemed like the wimpiest player in Rock, Paper, Scissors. Sure, it's easy to imagine a heavy rock crushing a pair of scissors, and we all know that scissors can cut paper. But how does paper win simply by covering rock?Paper proves itself a lot tougher than it looks in a new video from carpenter John Heisz of the I Build It website and YouTube chael. In the simple two-minute video, Heisz uses one sheet of regular white printer paper to cut out a round saw-blade shape, and inserts it in his saw. It seems like the thin piece of paper can't possibly cut anything, but he builds up slowly, testing the blade on paper, then cardboard, then finally moving on to a small piece of wood, wh...