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Enlarge ImageSilk Labs' Sense has a camera and network abilities to see who's in a room or house and automate actions like tuing on lights. Silk Labs Computing smarts are spreading to just about anything with a power cord or battery. Good luck finding your way through that jumble of products. Startup Silk Labs believes it can bring the brains to make better sense of it all. "We're trying to make your house as smart as your smartphone," said Chief Executive...

Enlarge ImageSilk Labs' Sense has a camera and network abilities to see who's in a room or house and automate actions like tuing on lights. Silk Labs Computing smarts are spreading to just about anything with a power cord or battery. Just one problem: most devices aren't actually smart. With a burgeoning trend called the Inteet of Things, the tech world is trying to coect everything in your life, but today it's an uncoordinated jumble of products. Startup Silk L...

Serving pizza to troops in combat situations is a huge challenge. Moisture from a traditional pizza sauce, cheese and meaty toppings is eventually absorbed by its crust. That provides the perfect environment for dangerous bacteria to grow.Shelf-stable pizza, meanwhile, uses humectants -- a mix of sugar, salt and syrup -- to keep the top of the pizza moist and well preserved, even after years have passed. The pizza's packaging, meanwhile, contains iron filings to help absorb air.So what does such a combat-friendly gastric prize look like? This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service - if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilte...

Serving pizza to troops in combat situations is a huge challenge. Moisture from a traditional pizza sauce, cheese and meaty toppings is eventually absorbed by its crust. That provides the perfect environment for dangerous bacteria to grow.Shelf-stable pizza, meanwhile, uses humectants -- a mix of sugar, salt and syrup -- to keep the top of the pizza moist and well preserved, even after years have passed. The pizza's packaging, meanwhile, contains iron filings to help absorb air.So what does such a combat-friendly gastric prize look like? This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service - if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilte...

Halo 5: Guardians is finally adding the fan-favorite Grifball mode, developer 343 Industries has aounced. In a blog post, multiplayer designer Max Grossman confirmed the frenetic yet strategic mode (as well as other ball-themed modes) will launch in the Xbox One shooter sometime later this month.343 said went to great lengths to ensure it "got it right" with Halo 5's version of Grifball. Grossman said the studio called in an expert on the mode, community player Jeffrey "Nokyard" Fischer," to help design the mode. 343 flew him to the developer's studio "a few months" before work even began on it to make sure the developer "understood exactly what is important to Grifballers.""We had many desi...

Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that's taken over our lives.He's waving his iPhone around, surely Nicolas Vuignier/YouTube screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET When it comes to YouTube videos that fascinate many, it's rarely worth asking why.No, not why they fascinate, but why they were made in the first place.In the case of the latest video that's already moved almost a million people in 24 hours, what we have is a man skiing down a mountain.Posted by Nicolas Vuignier, it shows a man -- Vuignier himself -- skiing down a m0untain.Not for him, though, a mere GoPro perspective. Instead, what appears to be happening is that he's waving his iPhone 6 around on quit...

A new update for Halo 5: Guardians has removed Arena Breakout gametype from the Team Arena playlist. Developer 343 Industries said this decision was made in part because of feedback from the community.The Team Arena playlist now includes only Slayer, CTF, and Strongholds. Lead multiplayer designer Qui DelHoyo said Arena Breakout may be revived as a weekend playlist in the future, though that's not confirmed.The removal of Arena Breakout does not affect Halo 5's Breakout-specific playlist, however. In fact, that playlist expanded this week with the addition of nine more community-voted maps, bringing the total to 14. 343 Industries Arena Breakout, a spin on the regular Breakout mode, was intr...

Enlarge ImageA lipstick-applying robot probably won't help you win any beauty pageants. Video screenshot by Amanda Kooser/CNET Robots can entertain your cat, make you cocktails and battle for your amusement. But they can also be massive jerks.Maker Simone Giertz programmed a uArm robot and unwisely gave it an open tube of lipstick to apply to her face. The uArm is essentially a miniature version of an industrial robot arm like you see in car factories...

Enlarge ImageA lipstick-applying robot probably won't help you win any beauty pageants. Video screenshot by Amanda Kooser/CNET Robots can entertain your cat, make you cocktails and battle for your amusement. But they can also be massive jerks.Maker Simone Giertz programmed a uArm robot and unwisely gave it an open tube of lipstick to apply to her face. The uArm is essentially a miniature version of an industrial robot arm like you see in car factories...

Enlarge Image Kudaranai Studios With Final Fantasy XV scheduled to finally hit sometime this year after nearly 10 years of development, what better way to celebrate than with your own save crystal? Kudaranai Studios has started selling Tabletop Save Point oaments, which are lamps that bear a strong resemblance to the save crystals often found in Final Fantasy games. Save crystals, for those unfamiliar with Square Enix's most iconic franchise, are beacons of hope in the darkest of virtual dungeons. Each oament from Kudaranai Studios is handmade, meaning everything -- including the bubbles in the resin crystal, the light colour, overall shape and base arrangement -- is unique to each unit. The...

Memphis Meats is a startup looking to make a splash in the world of "cultured" meats (read: meat made from animal cells, as opposed to the animals themselves). They'll be holding a demo day in San Francisco this weekend, and we're bummed we won't be able to try their science meatballs in person. Meanwhile, a team at MIT recently won a Hyperloop competition sponsored by SpaceX. Their wiing idea is still in the conceptual phase, but their win means they'll be moving on to a small-scale model, which is exciting for anyone hoping to hop on a real Hyperloop pod in their lifetime....

Memphis Meats is a startup looking to make a splash in the world of 'cultured' meats (read: meat made by animal cells, as opposed to the animals themselves). They'll be holding a demo day in San Francisco this weekend, and we're bummed we won't be able to try their science meatballs in person. Meanwhile, a team at MIT recently won a Hyperloop competition sponsored by SpaceX. Their wiing idea is still in the conceptual phase, but their win means they'll be moving on to a small-scale model, which is exciting for anyone hoping to hop on a real Hyperloop pod in their lifetime....

The Apple Watch is triggering greater interest in smartwatches, says Gartner. Apple The Apple Watch may be just what the smartwatch market needed. Smartwatch unit sales will jump from 30 million last year to 50 million this year and 66.7 million in 2017, Gartner said in a research note released on Tuesday. The industry can thank Apple for the anticipated surge, according to Gartner, as the Apple Watch has been "popularizing wearables as a lifestyle trend." Launched last April, the Apple Watch is one of the most high-profile products in wearable tech. It's spurring interest in smartwatches, Gartner says, not so much because of its features but because of its aesthetics. It's a fashion stateme...

You're sitting in a coffee shop, your eyeballs glued to the phone. YouTube is open, and you're waiting for the latest comic-book movie trailer to load. Instead, you get the oh-so-familiar circular loading icon instead. And it keeps spiing and spiing. It's at these moments when you wonder if this is the right time to switch wireless carriers. But which carrier? Each of them claims to be some variation of fastest, most reliable or even newest. It's tough to cut through the noise. Testing firm OpenSignal has some answers and found two surprising carriers duking it out for the top spot. T-Mobile eaed top honors in the firm's first US-dedicated report released Tuesday. It took home awards for the...

You're sitting in a coffee shop, your eyeballs glued to the phone. YouTube is open, and you're waiting for the latest comic-book movie trailer to load. Instead, you get the oh-so-familiar circular loading icon instead. And it keeps spiing and spiing. It's at these moments when you wonder if this is the right time to switch wireless carriers. But which carrier? Each of them claims to be some variation of fastest, most reliable or even newest. It's tough to cut through the noise. Testing firm OpenSignal has some answers and found two surprising carriers duking it out for the top spot. T-Mobile eaed top honors in the firm's first US-dedicated report released Tuesday. It took home awards for the...

The Curiosity rover has been sending back selfies from the surface of Mars for a few years now, but they don't quite paint the picture of what it's like to be a robot so far from home. Fortunately, NASA, using tech from a team at Facebook, put together a nifty interactive panorama to give smartphone users a sense of what it's like to chill at the foot of some Martian dunes. When you load the below video within the Facebook app on a mobile device, you should be able to rotate your phone to alter the view and get the full 360-degree experience from where the rover sits. None other than Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg re-shared the post over the weekend. He explained that "NASA produced it by stit...

Following its beta release in January, Fallout 4's latest update is now available for all PC players. The update arrives as an automatic download on Steam and is scheduled to come to PlayStation 4 and Xbox One later this week. This release schedule is not out of the ordinary, as Fallout 4's patches have historically arrived first on PC before coming to consoles later.Fallout 4's 1.3 update adds new PC-specific features like an ambient occlusion setting (HBAO+) and new debris effects for Nvidia card users, while it also makes a number of changes to Workshop Mode.Across all platforms, meanwhile, players can expect general memory and stability improvements, as well as a series of bug fixes. One...

Google doled out some cash after losing and regaining control of its domain name last fall. Google Google shelled out some cash last fall after losing and regaining ownership of Google.com. Now the company has revealed how much the slip-up cost. Former Google employee Sanmay Ved purchased Google.com for $12 at 1:20 a.m. ET on September 29. He bought the domain name on the Google Domains registration service website after the company somehow lost ownership of it. He owned Google.com for one minute. The transaction was reversed when Google sent Ved a cancellation order, which retued ownership to the company. Conflicts over domain ownership aren't always settled amicably or cheaply. So-called d...

You may have heard that astronomers spotted the largest solar system seen so far in the universe. It's actually more accurate to call it the widest solar system ever seen, thanks to a wispy waif of a ghostly gas giant planet orbiting its star at the remarkable distance of 1 trillion kilometers (approximately 621 billion miles).Until recently, the object known as 2MASS J2126 was thought to be a free-floating lonely planet drifting through interstellar space untethered by the gravitational pull of a nearby star. But a team of American, Australian and British researchers report in the latest Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society that the planet is actually orbiting an equally lonely...

You may have heard that astronomers spotted the largest solar system seen so far in the universe. It's actually more accurate to call it the widest solar system ever seen, thanks to a wispy waif of a ghostly gas giant planet orbiting its star at the remarkable distance of 1 trillion kilometers (approximately 621 billion miles).Until recently, the object known as 2MASS J2126 was thought to be a free-floating lonely planet drifting through interstellar space untethered by the gravitational pull of a nearby star. But a team of American, Australian and British researchers report in the latest Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society that the planet is actually orbiting an equally lonely...