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Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that's taken over our lives.Enlarge ImageHe just happened to have a chainsaw handy? CCTV News/YouTube screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET In the aals of ingenuity, this man might have a place.Which doesn't mean it's a good thing.His actions, though, fall into the realm of "who would ever think of doing that?"For here is surveillance footage taken in Changsha City, China and helpfully posted to YouTube. What we see is a man attracted to a bike that is chained to a tree. As the action unfolds, we appreciate that he covets the bike.It's not so easy...

Operation Licoe ("Operation Unico") nuclear test, May 22, 1970. Getty Images Air pollution, climate change, population growth, massive rainforest loss: The effect humanity has had on the Earth is undeniable. And, in the last 60 or so years -- since the time just after World War II -- this change has accelerated. So much so that a group of scientists have recommended we officially enter the Anthropocene epoch, denoting a "new age of man." We'd be moving out of the 11,700-year Holocene epoch.After seven years of deliberation, the 35-person Working Group voted 30-to-three (two members abstained) to register the ...

Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that's taken over our lives.Bad day in the bathroom. Getty Images It could happen to any of us. Our phones are so precious that if we dropped one down a public toilet, we'd climb in to get it back. Wouldn't we? What did you say? You'd call a Task Rabbit? This wasn't the choice of 20-year-old Cato Betsen Larsen. The Norwegian was in Drammen, southe Norway, when he participated in a drama.As Norway's VG News reports -- relying on the intrepid work of Drammens Tidende -- his friend's phone fell down a public toilet. Larsen, though, is svelte. He's ...

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 b...

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 trans...

[embedded content] There's nothing more fun than spending a few hours playing the classic arcade game Pac-Man. Maneuvering your joystick to make Pac-Man race around a maze eating dots and fruit while colorful ghosts chase after him has always been a fun. While Pac-Man will remain a favorite among gamers, this video of Pac-Dog maybe even more charming than the original video game character himself. In the video Pac-Dog (Animal Arcade Ep. 1) -- posted on YouTube on Tuesday by HelloDenizen -- a tiny dog dressed as Pac-Man races around a real maze popping white balloons (that resemble dots) and tries not to run into googly-eyed ghosts on sticks who a...

Pekka Rantala, the new chief marketing officer for HMD Global. Rantala formerly ran Rovio and worked at Nokia. HMD Global The pieces are slowly coming together for the Nokia phone to make its comeback.In May, Microsoft unloaded the phone business it originally purchased from Nokia on FIH Mobile, a unit of Taiwan-based manufacturing giant Foxco, and HMD Global, a Fiish startup tasked with selling phones and tablets under the Nokia brand. Former Nokia executive Arto Nummela would lead the company as CEO. On Monday, another piece clicked into place. HMD tapped Pekka Rantala, former CEO of Angry Birds game maker...

Suddenly everyone into gaming is talking about No Man's Sky. It's a high-concept game, one that requires an expert to break it down. Fortunately, CNET editor Jeff Bakalar is willing to share his early impressions of the game and talk about who might actually play it. We devote the entire show to the game, which boasts 18.4 quintillion planets -- yes, that's a real word -- for players to discover and exploit. The 3:59 gives you bite-size news and analysis about the top stories of the day, brought to you by CNET Executive Editor Roger Cheng, Senior Writer Ben Fox Rubin and Producer Bryan VanGelder. What the hell is No Man's Sky (The 3:59 Ep. 94) Y...

If there's a zombie apocalypse, we want people like Evan Booth around. Because if an undead walker chomps off your hand, and you want to rebuild it from common household appliances, Booth's the man.Using only the parts from a Keurig K350 coffeemaker, plus adhesives and a 12-volt exteal power supply, Booth built a working hand he dubbed Hedberg. On the YouTube video, he notes he used only basic household tools and went into the project with no plans, "just a general idea of how things should be constructed."The project took him just under 200 hours, but he condensed the work into a five-minute video that travels from unopened Keuric box to a final, flexing hand that's rewarding its...

Hey, this is kind of a fuy-looking aco. Hmm, nobody's looking, what if I just grab it? Cool, mom didn't notice and that obnoxious grabby-paws Rocky didn't clue in. I'm off to the races!Hmm, it's kinda hard hauling it all the way up the tree trunk into the pantry, but now that I'm safe I can finally take a bite and...owww! It's a whaaa? A CAMERA? This isn't edible at all! I practically broke a front fang on that dang thing!Oh well, maybe I can rethink this. Could be a new career for me if I play this right. Steven Squirrelberg, I'll call myself. Here, I'll just peek my handsome nose into the frame. Ooh, and I just groomed my whiskers, let's put them on display. I'd like to thank th...

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No Man's Sky developer Hello Games has revealed what the game's first patch will include. Posting on the game's official website, studio founder Sean Murray said anyone who played the game prior to installing this patch will need to delete their save. Although the game will continue to function without the patch, these players will "miss out on new content and experiences" if they don't update."We highly recommend deleting your save if you have played before updating your game (we won't do this in future, but it's a day zero update)," the post says.According to Murray, servers will be wiped on Sunday (August 7) and then again on Monday (August 8). The update will be available on Monday (Augu...

He paid over a thousand dollars for the leaked copy and has apparently "beat" the game....

Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that's taken over our lives.Enlarge ImageHe began with some friends. Then he was on his own. Mr Treknation/YouTube screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET You might wish your less-preferred political candidate would try this.Please, though, don't try it yourself.It looks rather, well, frightening.For here is Luke Aikins jumping out of a plane at 25,000 feet. Without a parachute or a wingsuit. Without, indeed, any other sort of brace that might soften his landing. He did, however, have GPS and lights. These were to guide him toward a large net that w...

Disney Infinity, a video game that brought toys to life, seemed to have a healthy following -- but in May 2016, Disney aounced the franchise would be discontinued. Disney has now released further information on the shutdown, including several dates players will have to keep in mind, as many in-game features are coming to an end.There are two currently active versions of the game, Infinity 2.0 and the newer Infinity 3.0. Both are getting shut down, but on different schedules. Starting July 29, new in-game purchases for iOS, Android, Amazon Fire devices, the Apple TV and Steam/PC versions of Disney Infinity 2.0 will no longer be available. This should let you keep previously purchased add-on...

Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that's taken over our lives.Enlarge ImageShe's tittering at his Twittering. ROBYN BECK/AFP/Getty Images If you're going to make a man feel small, you have two choices.You either go for his hands or you go for his Twitter habits.During her speech on Thursday to the Democratic National Convention, presidential candidate Hillary Clinton decided to go for the latter.In a line that might get repeated just once or twice in the future, Clinton mused: "A man you can bait with a tweet is not a man we can trust with nuclear weapons."Twitter soon declared ...

Enlarge ImageThe Trump tower of sound. Sound of Power Finally, you can get Donald Trump to say or sing whatever, whenever and wherever you want. Sound of Power is commemorating Trump's official nomination for president by the Republican Party by adding a bust of The Donald to its line of high-end speakers in the shape of some of the world's more controversial leaders. "It's with pride we present the final character in the Sound of Power series, Donald the Great. Offering you to play Donald like he's been playing you," reads the catty description of the speaker on the company website. "Donald the Great i...

Apple made $42.4 billion in revenue with net income at $7.8 billion in its fiscal third quarter. That sounds like lots and lots of money, right? Apple beat analysts' estimates with its quarterly eaings report. However, the iPhone is in a slump. Sales are below those of a year ago at the same time. 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 podcast via the links below.iTunes (HD) | iTunes (SD) | iTunes (HQ)...

Enlarge ImagePokemon Go players never know what they'll find if they look up from their phones. Josh Miller/CNET As you probably know by now, all kinds of bad things can happen to you while playing Pokemon Go. You can fall into a pond or crash into a cop car. If you're really distracted (and honestly, who isn't while playing the game?), you might even step on a landmine. But lest you think the game is merely a personal-health disaster waiting to happen, here's a reminder that good things can result from the augmented-reality game too. Three friends in the UK encountered a seriously ill man while out hunting ...