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Are you a political junkie hungry for Republican National Convention news? Are you suffering FOMO because you're not in Cleveland? Are you just craving for gavel-to-gavel action at the Quicken Loans Arena?Well, here's how you can peep the action from anywhere in the world.If you've got a phone, download the official RNC app to see if presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump gets the formal nod from his party. The live stream, provided by Google, will include 360-degree cameras for an immersive experience. It also has a tu-by-tu map of the arena and a program list of speakers, complete with bios. You can also watch Google's coverage on a laptop or desktop or mobile. Twitter is also getting into t...

We love to love old. Throwback Thursdays. Flashback Fridays. '80s covers bands. Most often we love it for the novelty. It's fun, but ironic. Particularly with technology, it's rare that we see true value in the old. "Here's To Being Brave" challenges that.The short film follows an elderly man at the "Life is Beautiful" festival in Las Vegas. He's carrying a Walkman (you remember them, they were the original iPods). He looks lost, and a little lonely. But when he shares what's on the Walkman with other concert-goers, we see that even old technology can give us something beautiful.Watch the video below. You may even shed a tear or two.[embedded content]Here's To Being Brave from Critical Focus...

Enlarge ImageSpongeBob SquarePants is 30, and he doesn't look a day over zero, because he's insanely happy all the time, and also sponges don't show their age. Nickelodeon He doesn't look it, but according to SpongeBob SquarePants'...

Here's your to-do list for the next funeral you attend: Send flowers. Sign the guest book. Comfort the widow. Catch a Jigglypuff.No no, of course you would NEVER dream of mixing a somber farewell to dear Uncle Harold with Pokemon Go, a light-hearted mobile game involving imaginary animals. No one would be that tacky. You're not like those tactless people leveling up at Auschwitz, or at the Holocaust Museum.But enough people are willing to mix mouing with Magikarp that there's now a Tumblr for it. Pokemon at Funerals: Catch 'Em Before They're Gone collects images and tweets showing players locating Pokemon at funeral homes, services, churches and wakes, or discussing other people doing the sa...

When diversity proponents point to the low percentage of women in places like boardrooms, a common response is that qualified candidates are few and far between.Profiles like these are what theBoardList uses to match companies up with qualified female directors. theBoardList Take, for instance, a survey of CEOs conducted by theBoardList, which is a marketplace of sorts for coecting tech companies with qualified female directors. Only half felt there is enough female talent available, and it's estimated by research group Catalyst that women hold just a fifth of the board seats among S&P 500 companies.To counter this perception, the organization on Thursday launched three new initiatives, incl...

Pikachu, I choose not to see you.The PokeGone Chrome extension promises to filter out all Pokemon-related content. PokeGone Pokemon fever is everywhere with the past week's meteoric rise of the Pokemon Go augmented reality app for Android and iOS devices. People are scrambling from PokeStop to PokeStop and loitering at gyms where their carefully collected pocket monsters can do battle with each other. Chances are good that some of you are already sick and tired of hearing about it. Fortunately, there's a Chrome extension that wants to help. It's called PokeGone, and once it's installed, it aims to filter out all mentions of Pokemon from your inteet experience. Simple as that. As for the nerd...

Of course I've been up all night! Not because of Pokemon Go, it was insomnia. I couldn't stop thinking about Pokemon GO. Nic Healey/CNET It hasn't even been a week since Pokemon Go launched and already it's hard to imagine what we did in those dark days before it was in our lives. Were there books? Films? Did I just imagine a thing called Netflix, or did it exist in the before times? Only historians will be able to tell us.While it's all fun and games until someone walks off a pier scouting for a Seadra, there are ways to make sure that your enjoyment of the insanely popular augmented reality game stays on the healthy side. Because let's be honest. Like the rest of us, you're probably playin...

The weste snowy plover. Ted Soqui/Getty Images When it comes to mobile apps, you've no doubt heard of Angry Birds. But what about Endangered Birds?No, it's not a game, it's serious business. San Diego Zoo Global -- a conservation group with programs worldwide, and the parent organization of the famous Califoia zoo -- is using a customized mobile app to aid in field studies of two of the state's endangered bird species: the weste snowy plover and the Califoia least te.Flowfinity, maker of the app, said in a press release earlier this week that SDZ Global's use of the software had been expanded to include the two species.Conservation researchers use the app to "record field observations in mob...

Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that's taken over our lives.Enlarge ImageTempting. Very tempting. Eh, bae? Twitter screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET Speaking to college students can resemble walking into a bar in an unfamiliar town in an unfamiliar country. You think you know how they speak. So one method of communication is to attempt to...

Enlarge ImageMulder and Scully of "The X-Files" stacked up the frequent-flyer miles, traveling to whichever state had an alien encounter. 20th Century Fox "The X-Files" is an equal-opportunity creepshow. Mulder and Scu...

Enlarge ImageNot Earth. Titan. NASA Science still has no solid proof that life exists beyond Earth. But the more we look around the universe, the more we see the potential for life just about everywhere, including in some really counter-intuitive spots. Because we've yet to find life elsewhere in our own solar system, the...

RoadshowNewsCoupesHere are the first official pictures of the Acura NSX GT3 racecarMore cars (or all of them) should be offered with exposed carbon fiber. Don't ask what that would do to the average transaction price, though... Acura Acura's released the first official pictures of the NSX GT3 ahead of its North American motorsports debut.The automaker debuted its latest motorsport offering without much pomp or circumstance at this year's New York Inteational Auto Show. After that, well, it just sort of faded into the background. Until now.Unlike the road-going NSX, which relies on a hybrid powertrain, the NSX GT3 makes do with just the traditional bit -- a...

Samsung Say bye bye to your pocket full of microSD cards -- Samsung's new UFS (Universal Flash Storage) cards are here to give them a swift lesson in the ceaseless march of progressionThey new cards are as small as microSD cards, but crucially, they're much faster. Samsung reckons the cards can achieve read speeds up to 530mb/s, which is five times faster than a normal microSD can achieve. Write speeds, Samsung says, are twice as fast on the new cards.The new cards' natural home will be inside video-capturing devices like drones. Many drones -- such as the new DJI Phantom 4 -- shoot video in 4K resolution, which requires fast cards to keep up with all the data being stored. The downside is t...

RoadshowNewsCar CultureHere's your first look at the next Camaro stock carEnlarge ImageIf you actually think there's a Camaro under here, I've got a bridge to sell you. Chevrolet...

Perhaps Android Nuomici would have been better? Wikipedia/Public domain The wait is over, and once again we have a new version of Android to look forward to, complete with a name that honors yet another sweet treat... I think. Android N will heretofore be known as Nougat, which is, uh, what the heck is nougat again? Are there no other awesome "N" treats? Just to be clear, the Cambridge Dictionaries Online defines nougat as "a hard chewy white or pink sweet food, usually containing nuts." Perhaps the most famous nougat-based treat is a Snickers bar, but 3 Musketeers and Baby Ruth also count, as do a wide variety of nougat treats that show up in sweet shops and bakeries around the world. So no...

[embedded content] One of the most epic and anticipated battle scenes this side of Peter Jackson's "Lord of the Rings" trilogy went down in the penultimate episode of season 6 of HBO mega-hit "Game of Thrones" earlier this month, and now the studio behind the highly satisfying "Battle of the Bastards" is sharing a peek behind the scenes at how it did it. By now we're all pretty aware that many of the action-packed spectacles Hollywood creates for our screens are actually generated by sophisticated software, but it's still impressive to see just how few human actors were involved in the most heated part of the battle. During the moments when Jon Snow is most in the midst of the melee, the abo...

Enlarge ImageCheap and cheaper: The Moto G, left, and Blu R1 HD. Amazon If you could save a few bucks on a new phone by allowing ads on your lockscreen, would you do it?That's the idea Amazon is pitching with a new offer to its Prime members for two unlocked budget phones....

Enlarge ImageWe'll be saying goodbye to some of our favorite characters before too long. HBO We all know the end game is coming, but it's been an open question as to just how many more episodes remain in the television saga "Game of Thrones." Co-creator and showruer...

RoadshowNewsCar IndustryWhere Volkswagen's $5 billion environmental payout is goingSince Dieselgate broke, VW has moved towards building electric vehicles, such as the BUDD-e concept here. Harold Cuingham/Getty Images Volkswagen has finally reached a settlement in regards to its 2.0-liter diesel vehicles in the US, after it admitted to willfully deceiving regulators and polluting well beyond legal limits. Its $15 billion settlement puts $10 billion towards compensating owners and its buyback program, with the rest going to "pollution mitigation." Let's see what that entails.First up, we have an emissions reduction program. VW will shell out $2.7 b...

The design changes to the iPhone 7 over the iPhone 6 shown here may be slight. Sarah Tew/CNET Buy an iPhone 7 later this year, and you may spot at least a few minor design changes.Expected to launch in September, this year's iPhone will feature a longer ear speaker, according to a blog post Thursday by Japanese site Makotakara. Further, the ambient light sensor, which automatically adjusts the screen's brightness based on the surrounding light, will swap positions from the left to the right side of the phone.The proximity sensor, which detects the distance between the phone and your ear, will adopt a "dual specification," according to Makotakara. This could mean the phone will have two such ...