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Enlarge ImageApps like this remind me that I'm old. Facebook In your face, Snapchat!Kids still say that sort of thing, right? How about: The '00s called and they want their app back! Well, it's late on a Friday, and Facebook has quietly released a new app, called Lifestage. And while its name might suggest the target market is caterpillars, this is actually for teens -- aka not me. Like other apps not built for me, it's somewhat confusing. But the gist of it is that you (the younger version of you, who was able to eat french fries dipped in milkshakes any time you damn well pleased) create a profile using you...

RoadshowNewsCar IndustryNew UK driving test will assess if you can follow a sat navThe British driving test will now include sat nav directions in a move to modeise the way people lea to drive.The UK's Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) updated the test to reflect the fact that more than half of UK drivers use a satellite navigation device to guide them as they drive."Candidates will be given more responsibility for making decisions during the test," explained DVSA Chief Driving Examiner, Lesley Young. "We want them to show they can cope with distractions and assess risk without the intervention of their instructor or examiner."The independent driving portion of the test will increas...

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Description For David Goggins, childhood was a nightmare - poverty, prejudice, and physical abuse colored his days and haunted his nights. But through self-discipline, mental toughness, and hard work,...

Description Audie Award Wier, Personal Development, 2014 Best-selling author, speaker, and world-traveling success coach Jen Sincero cuts through the din of the self-help genre with her own verbal meat cleaver in You Are a Badass: How to Stop Doubting Your Greatness and Start Living an Awesome Life. In this refreshingly blunt how-to guide, Sincero serves up 27 bite-sized chapters full of hilariously inspiring stories, life-changing insights, easy exercises, and the occasional swear word. Via chapters such as "Your Brain Is Your Bitch", "Fear Is for Suckers", and "My Subconscious Made Me Do It", Sincero takes you on a ...

Description Based on the incredible graduation speech with over 10 million views on YouTube If you want to change the world, start off by making your bed. On May 21, 2014, Admiral William H. McRaven addressed the graduating class of the University of Texas at Austin on their Comm...

Enlarge Image RR Auction The Power-Driven Articulated Dummy is a strange aside in NASA's space race story, and now you can own it. The space suit testing robot is going up for grabs as part of RR Auctions' Remarkable Rarities Auction.The human body is not designed for space. As we get into higher and higher altitudes, as air pressure lowers and eventually becomes the vacuum of space, the survival rate of an unprotected human body lowers. This is why astronauts wear those chunky suits as they move around in space. Those suits, among other things, provide a stable inteal pressure that keeps the wearer's body fro...

If the price tag of a new phone makes you sweat, you're not alone.Since all four major carriers have done away with their device subsidies, US consumers for the first time are seeing how much their fancy phones actually cost. And it's not pretty. While we've all been trained to lust for the latest Apple iPhone or Samsung Galaxy gadget, which cost a small fortune, the reality is that you can still get a pretty sophisticated, good-quality phone for a fraction of the price. In this edition of Ask Maggie, I spell out options for a frugal shopper. Dear Maggie,My old phone is on the fritz. I need a new one stat, but the prices are horrifying. I've heard old iPhones drop in price right after the ne...

Enlarge Image Microsoft The next-gen racing game Forza Horizon 3 went gone gold on Tuesday, and with the final game off to be pressed onto disc comes another surprise for rev heads: Halo's warthog, another Microsoft mainstay, will be making its way to the console-exclusive racing game.The space-age off roader got a bit of a facelift to fit in alongside the stuing (but far more traditional) vehicle roster that Forza is known for.To unlock the Warthog in game, you'll have needed to play either Halo 5 or Halo: The Master Chief Collection on Xbox One. You'll receive a download code via Xbox Live if you're eligible...

Artist's representation of a crumbling Dyson sphere. Danielle Futselaar/METI Inteational Another weird signal from the cosmos has scientists checking for E.T. attempting to make an interstellar call. So far, it's looking like nobody's home and something natural or some sort of human interference is the real source. But if intelligent aliens did indeed tu out to be behind this latest blip, their tech would be the stuff of far-fetched science fiction.The latest SETI (search for extraterrestrial intelligence) stir started when author Paul Gilster revealed he's seen documents from a presentation set for late Septe...

How could you be mean to these faces? Enik Kubinyi If you like to insult your pup using a sweet voice (you monster), chances are you're probably just confusing the poor canine, according to new research. A team of scientists from Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest, Hungary used functional magnetic resonance imaging to discover how dogs process both language and intonation, and found that it's not dissimilar to how humans do."We trained dogs to lie motionless in an MRI scaer awake and unrestrained for several minutes. We let them listen to their trainer's speech and at the same time we measured their brain ac...

Enlarge ImageGoogle Crowdsource lets you help the company with language translation, handwriting recognition and map translation accuracy. Screenshot by Stephen Shankland/CNET Google has a formidable artificial intelligence team working on everything from photo recognition to email spam filtering. But for some tasks, it's looking for the human touch -- yours, specifically.The online giant on Monday released a new Android app called Crowdsource that lets you contribute your own suggestions to language translation, handwriting recognition and street sign transcription. "Each microtask takes no more than five to ...

RoadshowNewsThis dongle will let you know if your car is about to breakdownSingapore startup Carmen has plans to make your car smarter, and it's doing so by tapping into the power of the cloud. Much like Verizon's Hum service in the US, Carmen uses an On Board Diagnostic reader that's coected to your phone via Bluetooth, reads your car data through an app and then uploads it to the cloud for analysis -- providing real time driving data on your phone.If your car is in danger of suffering a breakdown, either due to a failing battery or engine, you'll be alerted through SMS or the mobile app. You can also read a history of your jouey through an online dashboard. In the event that a breakdown do...

Over the last few months I've written about the persistent rumors that Apple will remove the headphone jack on the next iPhone.Every time I write about it, readers' comments have been generally negative, with some folks threatening to boycott the iPhone when Apple drops the headphone jack.Well, from all indications, including published reports citing "people familiar with the matter" and some early iPhone 7 cases I've received, it's the end of the road for the iPhone's headphone hack. But don't panic, folks. After being on the fence about the issue these last few months, I've come to the conclusion I can live without the headphone jack. And I think you can, too.Here are the reasons why: ...

Enlarge ImageMy MacBook Pro today is maxed out, and I'm worried future models with USB-C will leave me without enough ports. Stephen Shankland/CNET Apple's next MacBook Pro will help move us all into the future of personal computing. But it could also bring some big headaches along the way.I'm confident it'll remain a powerful machine while getting lighter and smaller. But I'm worried that one new technology that enables that slimming down, the versatile USB Type-C port, will also mean the MacBook Pro and other heavy-duty laptops will leave me in the lurch.USB-C is flexible enough to handle just about anything...

A discrete relocatable overlay (currently at the bottom left coer) lets you know how many viewers you currently have. Screenshot by Aloysius Low/CNET Think you're the bee's knees at games like World of Warcraft and StarCraft II? Now you can show all your friends just how good you are. Blizzard's live streaming service is now up and ruing, so you can broadcast your skills (or lack thereof) to your buddies on Facebook Live. It's good timing too, with World of Warcraft's Legion expansion dropping on Tuesday.To sign up, simply hit the video button that should appear on the Battle.net client, or go to Settings >...

Subscribe to the Apple Byte PodcastiTunes MP3 | RSS MP3 | FeedBuer MP3SoundCloud | Google Play | TuneIniTunes video | RSS video | FeedBuer videoYouTube | Livestream| Stitcher Extra Crunchy Podcast, Ep. 52 Your browser does not support the audio element. Why you should update your iPhone right nowiPhione 7 NEWS:Apple Plans iPhone for Japan With Tap-to-Pay for SubwaysApple to Eliminate Home Button in 2017 iPhoneA Design Defect Is Breaking a Ton of iPhone 6 PlusesiPhone 6s Bests Samsung's New Galaxy Note 7 in App Speed TestSIRI NEWS:Siri's voice to benefit from machine leaing improvements in Apple's iOS 10Barbra Streisand...

"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 a...