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Nothing to see here... NASA What if there is extraterrestrial intelligence out there in the universe, but the aliens tu out to be hostile? Think "Independence Day" rather than "E.T." If that's the case, world leaders may want to give Alex Teachey and David Kipping at Columbia University's Cool Worlds Lab a call before our visitors show up. In a new paper, Teachey and Kipping outline how to create a cloaking device for our planet, to hide us all from the view of alien civilizations who may be looking for a new target for their latest long-distance Starkiller Base. It sounds like an elaborate April Fools' Day prank for the sci-fi set, but the paper was published online Wednesday in the joual M...

Hoffman worked on eWorld, Apple's early attempt at a social network, from 1994 to 1996. In 2000, he joined PayPal, which was bought by eBay two years later. Around that time, Hoffman co-founded professional networking service LinkedIn. He has since joined Greylock Partners, which has helped fund high-profile tech companies such as Facebook, Airbnb, Coupons.com and Zynga. Let's block ads! بخوانید...

Hoffman worked on eWorld, Apple's early attempt at a social network, from 1994 to 1996. In 2000, he joined PayPal, which was bought by eBay two years later. Around that time, Hoffman co-founded LinkedIn, a social network for professionals that acts like your resume on the Web. He's since joined Greylock Partners, where he's helped fund some of the tech industry's highest profile companies including Facebook, Airbnb, Coupons.com, Zynga and Kongregate. Let's block ads! بخوانید...

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What if Apple launched an iPhone, and no one showed up? Well, that's sort of what happened today when the company released its iPhone SE to little fanfare. There weren't any lines, but a couple of people did show up to buy the new, smaller phone. CNET's Ben Fox Rubin was on the scene and shared his thoughts. Also on the podcast, we discuss those other products coming out today, the Amazon Tap and Echo Dot. For some, that may be the more exciting news. It might be high time for Apple to consider making its own version of the Echo. Speaking of Amazon, we try not to snicker as we talk about the online retail giant's new Dash button for Trojan condoms. Also, stick around for after the first 3:59...

Someone in America probably wants all four of these buttons, right? Amazon Buying more Doritos at the simple push of a button sounds like an awfully dangerous idea. Let's hope Amazon knows what it's doing. Last year, the e-retail giant introduced Dash buttons, which are small, Inteet-coected buttons that people can click to purchase household goods like paper towels or detergent. That aouncement was just before April 1, 2015, and some reporters wondered if the concept was a joke. Guess who's laughing now! To mark the first aiversary of these tiny buttons, Amazon on Thursday unleashed dozens more of them, tripling the current lineup to surpass 100 different buttons. The new buttons include Ar...

Hey Siri, thanks for the smaller phone, but how about an Echo-like smart speaker?Thursday's a big day in tech. Apple's iPhone SE and 9.7-inch iPad Pro go on sale. Also available are the latest products in Amazon's Echo family of smart speakers, the portable Amazon Tap and speaker attachment Echo Dot.For many of you, it's Amazon's products, and its digital voice assistant Alexa, that are the bigger draw. That's because the Pringles can-shaped Echo speaker has been a surprise hit thanks to its ability to let you ask about the weather, play NPR news, set reminders, add items to your grocery list and even order pizza for delivery.Your home is increasingly tuing into a battleground for tech giant...

Welcome to Build.Microsoft's aual developers conference starts today with a keynote address that starts at 8:30 a.m. PT/11:30 a.m. ET. Expect Windows 10 updates to take center stage, with news on Office, Xbox and HoloLens to be on the docket as well.We'll kick off coverage 30 minutes earlier with a live pre-show hosted by Brian Tong and Lexy Savvides, and then cut directly to the live stream of the Microsoft event. It'll all happen in the embedded video below.[embedded content]CNET's Ian Sherr will be in the room at San Francisco's Moscone Center. Follow his Twitter timeline (below) for real-time updates.Tweets by @iansherrEarlier coverage:>> Microsoft needs you to fall in love with Windows....

Fans of "The Walking Dead" familiar with the original graphic novels that inspired the blockbuster hit show on AMC have been waiting for years now for one of the scariest villains of the series to finally darken their screens. The wait is about over, as we've just had our first glimpse of Negan and his brutal baseball bat named Lucille. Fox Netherlands released a promo Friday for what appears to be the 90-minute season 6 finale, in which we'll apparently meet Negan in the flesh, as played by Jeffrey Dean Morgan (also seen in Amazon's "Extant" and in a tiny role in "Batman v. Superman"). The leaked promo has since been taken down, but above are a few screen shots of the brief glimpses we get ...

Enlarge ImageA close-up of the bright spots in Occator crater. NASA/JPL NASA's Dawn spacecraft has been circling Ceres, the largest object in the asteroid belt beyond Mars, for about a year now. The mission team on Tuesday released some of the closest views we're likely to see of the mysterious world, which harbors a...

Screenshot by Shara Tibken/CNET Apple is holding a special event at its headquarters in Cupertino in just a few hours. The iPhone-maker is expected to aounce a smaller iPhone SE and a 9.7-inch version of its iPad Pro. We may also see new features and bands for the Apple Watch, and quite possibly some new Macs, along with some other surprises. Here's everything you need to know:Tuning inWhen: Today, March 21What time: San Francisco: 10 a.m. -- New York: 1 p.m. -- London: 5 p.m. -- Beijing: 1 a.m. (March 22) -- Sydney: 4 a.m. (March 22).Preshow: The CNET preshow starts at 9 a.m. PT with Brian Tong and Lexy Savvides. Click here to tune in.Live blog: CNET's Shara Tibken and Scott Stein are on lo...

Say goodbye to tapping out status updates on your BlackBerry. CNET BlackBerry is facing death by a billion cuts after Facebook pulled support for its social media apps from the mobile platform. The decision by Facebook, which last year passed the milestone of 1 billion people using its service in one day, follows on the heels of a similar move from WhatsApp, which aounced last month that it would pull BlackBerry support for its messaging app by the end of 2016. After heady days as the phone of choice for the likes of Hillary Clinton, BlackBerry has faced a decline in recent years. While Android and Apple account for 58 percent and 39 percent of smartphone sales in the US (based on recent fig...

Say goodbye to tapping out status updates on your BlackBerry. CNET BlackBerry is facing death by a billion cuts after Facebook pulled support for its social media apps from the mobile platform.The decision by Facebook, which last year passed the milestone of 1 billion people using its service in one day, follows on the heels of a similar move from WhatsApp, which aounced last month that it would pull BlackBerry support for its messaging app by the end of 2016. After heady days as the phone of choice for the likes of Hillary Clinton, BlackBerry has fac...

Say goodbye to tapping out status updates on your BlackBerry. CNET BlackBerry is facing death by a billion cuts after Facebook pulled support for its social media apps from the mobile platform.The decision by Facebook, which last year passed the milestone of 1 billion people using its service in one day, follows on the heels of a similar move from WhatsApp, which aounced last month that it would pull BlackBerry support for its messaging app by the end of 2016. After heady days as the phone of choice for the likes of Hillary Clinton, BlackBerry has faced a decline in recent years. While Android and Apple account for 58 percent and 39 percent of smartphone sales in the US (based on recent figu...

You only have a few hours left to fill out your NCAA Touament brackets. Microsoft thinks it can help. Whether you depend on your own knowledge, the endless television analysis or the wisdom of fellow fans, picking the perfect bracket is nerve racking. So many things -- as when No. 14 seed University of Alabama-Birmingham upset No. 3 seed Iowa State -- can go wrong. Microsoft says its Bing search engine's Predict tool can help even the savviest bracket pickers. The tool includes millions of data points, including the frequency of related search terms and social media mentions, that make sense of the 9 quintillion possible touey outcomes.Want an idea of how complicated that is? 9 quintillion l...

Enlarge ImageSection of mouse brain with Alzheimer's disease tagged using a virus. RIKEN The memories that seem to disappear when a patient has Alzheimer's disease may not necessarily be lost forever. A team of researchers has demonstrated that they may also be retrieved.Led by Susumu Tonegawa at the RIKEN-MIT Center for Neural Circuit Genetics, the team has successfully used a technique call...

Sony has released the next "Making Of" video for Uncharted 4: A Thief's End. This one focuses on how the actual game developers--many of whom were in their 20s when the series started--grew up alongside Nathan Drake and other Uncharted characters. It's another really cool behind-the-scenes video, and it talks about a lot more than that, as we also lea about the game's themes and storylines. The seven-minute video, titled "Growing Up With Drake," is available below. Co-director Neil Druckma also talks about how Nathan Drake's own jouey--making sacrifices to achieve greatness--is not unlike how he and other studio members feel about making the Uncharted games."As a game developer, this is hard...

Keep swiping that credit card, folks. The latest VR headset aouncement comes with yet another price caveat with today's PlayStation VR price aouncement not telling quite the whole story.That $399 US price tag -- it's AU$550 in Australia and £349 in the UK -- won't do anything unless you also own a PlayStation Camera, priced at $59, AU$75 or £39. It simply will not work at all. Add to this that many games will also demand two PlayStation Move controllers, which are about $49, AU$46 or £24 each, and suddenly the "full" PSVR experience bumps that price of admission up to around $556, AU$715 or £436.The fight to be the VR platform of choice is getting very hot, and now the three major VR players...

Keep swiping that credit card, folks. The latest VR headset aouncement comes with yet another price caveat with today's PlayStation VR price aouncement not telling quite the whole story.That $399 price tag (AU$550, £349) won't do anything unless you also own a PlayStation Eye camera, priced at $59. It simply will not work at all. Add to this that many games will also demand PlayStation Move controllers, priced at $49 each, and suddenly the "full" PSVR experience you'll need to bump that price of admission up to around $556.The fight to be the VR platform of choice is getting very hot, and now the three major VR players have placed their cards on the table. The big question is whether price, ...

System Shock Remastered has seen the light of day. The first gameplay footage of the reimagined game was released by developer Night Dive Studios on YouTube today. The System Shock remake is developed in Unity, and the video shows off its new user interface and visuals. Night Dive says it will "keep the new game true to the classic experience" -- you can still hit monsters with a pipe. You can check out the trailer for yourself below. The developer says you can "see more" on the System Shock website, though for now it only hosts the YouTube video, description and a SHODAN that follows your cursor around.You can read the full video description below:"After 20 years, we are remastering and re-...