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Director Ilya Naishuller used a special GoPro camera rig to shoot the movie. Richard Nieva/CNET If you made a first-person-shooter video game like "Call of Duty" or "Doom" into a live-action movie, it would be "Hardcore Henry." And it would be bloodier. The movie, which had its US premier Sunday night at the South By Southwest film, tech and music festival here in Austin, Texas, has more in line with technology than just being an homage to video games. The film runs for about 90 minutes, and all but a few of those minutes were shot on GoPro, the tiny action camera often wo by extreme athletes and other daredevils. To get the shots, Russian director Ilya Naishuller used a rig with the GoPro a...

Director Ilya Naishuller used a special GoPro camera rig to shoot the movie. Richard Nieva/CNET If you made a first-person-shooter video game like "Call of Duty" or "Doom" into a live-action movie, it would be "Hardcore Henry." And it would be bloodier. The movie, which had its US premier Sunday night at the South By Southwest film, tech and music festival here in Austin, Texas, has more in line with technology than just being an homage to video games. The film runs for about 90 minutes, and all but a few of those minutes were shot on GoPro, the tiny action camera often wo by extreme athletes and other daredevils. To get the shots, Russian director Ilya Naishuller used a rig with the GoPro a...

Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that's taken over our lives.Not a good look. Paul Clare/Twitter screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET Birds are such gentle things.When we see a flock of them flying in perfect formation across the sky, we wonder: "Why can't humans find that sort of harmony?"For pilots, however, birds can be trouble. Your plane is going quickly. They might not see you coming soon enough. You might not see them either.They might fly into your engine. Or, as happened to an Egyptair 737-866 approaching London's Heathrow airport on Friday, they might smack straight into the nose of your plane. Images posted to Twitter by Heathrow worker Paul Clare sh...

One Hyperloop company is developing "augmented windows" so passengers can see what's going on outside. Richard Nieva/CNET If zipping around in a small pod through a confined tube at around 760 miles per hour sounds a bit claustrophobic, one hyperloop company is hoping it has a remedy.Hyperloop Transportation Technologies said Sunday it is working on "augmented windows," so passengers in the futuristic high-speed transportation system have something to look at while traveling. The hyperloop, for the uninitiated, is billionaire Elon Musk's vision for the future of travel. It involves pods hovering on a cushion of air moving through a narrow tube at the speed of sound. Musk unveiled the plans i...

RoadshowCar CultureWatch this plucky British roadster trounce a million-dollar hypercarIf you ask your average car geek for one of the fastest cars on sale today, they will likely answer with one of three, seven-figure hypercars -- the McLaren P1, LaFerrari or Porsche 918 Spyder. But if lap records are any marker, a tiny British two-seater should ea its place among the household names.The Lotus 3-Eleven is a small, topless track car, packing 456 horsepower from a modified Toyota V-6, along with a price tag of about $130,000 -- significantly cheaper than any hypercar. Yet, when Sport Auto's road test editor Christian Gebhardt took the 3-Eleven to Germany's Hockenheimring, it set the track rec...

Not everyone was thrilled with the main cover for id Software's new Doom, so you might have been happy to lea that the studio will also include a reverse sleeve cover for launch in May. id Software let fans vote on two options, and the wier has now been revealed. Check it out below, while the loser can be seen further down. id Software This cover definitely has more of a classic Doom vibe than the second option. That one was interesting in a different kind of way, in that it went with a darker overall tone and featured a skull and a pentagram on it.People really liked the classic-looking Doom cover, as it won a margin of 68 percent to 32 percent. More than 62,000 people placed votes before e...

@OnLeaks We may have just seen the newest flagship phone from HTC. Photos of the company's next smartphone, dubbed the HTC 10, have appeared on Twitter Friday.From Twitter account @OnLeaks, we see a prototype phone that looks to have a fingerprint scaer, dedicated menu and back buttons, a matte black design and a USB Type-C charging port. The tweet claims the phone has a 5.15-inch QHD display, Snapdragon 820 processor, Adreno 530 graphics chip, 4GB RAM and a 12-megapixel camera. It's a convincing-looking prototype that doesn't stray too far from HTC's typical phone design.#HTC10 (prototype specs) 5.15" QHD / SD820 / Adreno 530 / 4GB RAM / 12MP / USB Type-C pic.twitter.com/I8P0Mjlz8M— OnLeaks...

"Star Trek Beyond, " the next installment in the series of reboot films, sees the Enterprise crew trapped on a mysterious planet. The movie is set to be released July 22 in the US. If that planet is anything like these classic Trek worlds, we absolutely caot wait.Let's start with Risa: tropical luxury resorts, miles of pristine beaches, steam pools and subterranean gardens, and more than 200 very, very accommodating Nuvian masseuses... 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 fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php#publishers....

For Apple, this is a fight for the soul of every single iPhone. Apple's top lawyer heads to Congress on Tuesday to appear before the House Judiciary Committee. That will mark the next phase of the tech giant's battle with federal authorities over whether it needs to create a "back door" -- an intentional security weak spot -- in a smartphone used by millions of people around the world. The two parties have drastically differing opinions on what's at stake. Apple believes that creating a new version of its iOS mobile software, requested by the FBI so that it can get at encryption-protected information, would create an invitation for hackers and set a precedent for privacy intrusions by goveme...

Enlarge ImageThe Augmented Acoustics app allows you to personalise the performance, wherever you are in the crowd. Augmented Acoustics I love live music. Hearing music played by talented musicians is...wow, I wish that guy in front o...

RoadshowPerformance CarsBMW 1 Series M Coupe now worth more than other models that were nearly twice as expensive new BMW's least expensive M-badged offering from 2011 has reached a small but significant milestone: It's now worth more than all of the other far costlier like-badged models it once shared showrooms with. Despite being more than $10,000 less expensive than its next-cheapest M sibling, the 2011 1 Series M Coupe commands more on the used market than all other BMW M offerings of its year, including the legendary M3 sports coupe and the much more expensive X5 M and X6 M SUVs. Among Roundel fans, the 1 Series M Coupe was a model rumored for years: a BMW M-fettled version of the Bavar...

Rocket League is currently only available digitally, but people wanting to own a physical copy of the car soccer game will be able to buy one at retail later this year.The news was aounced by Psyonix Studios vice president Jeremy Dunham on today's episode of Kinda Fuy Games' Colin and Greg Live. He mentioned that the deal was signed this week, and we'll hear more news soon."We're going to be aouncing very soon that Rocket League's coming to retail," aounced Dunham. "We're going to be talking about who our partner is, when [you] can expect to see it, and what comes in that package." Psyonix The official Rocket League Facebook page confirmed the news and said Psyonix will "make sure the retail...

RoadshowPerformance CarsBMW 1 Series M Coupe now worth more than other models that were nearly twice as expensive new BMW's least expensive M-badged offering from 2011 has reached a small but significant milestone: It's now worth more all of the other far costlier like-badged models it once shared showrooms with. Despite being more than $10,000 less expensive than its next-cheapest M sibling, the 2011 1 Series M Coupe commands more on the used market than all other BMW M offerings of its year, including the legendary M3 sports coupe and the much more expensive X5 M and X6 M SUVs. Among Roundel fans, the 1 Series M Coupe was a model rumored for years: a BMW M-fettled version of the Bavarian a...

LG is taking a break from Google's Nexus phone program. There are no plans to build a successor to Google's Nexus 5 or Nexus 5X phones, according to a spokesman for the Korean electronics conglomerate. "LG needs to focus on its own brand," he said at the Mobile World Congress trade show in Barcelona on Friday.The decision comes as LG puts its resources behind promoting the G5, a modular phone that launched at a splashy event on Sunday. Coming just hours before the Samsung event, LG hopes to position its G5 as a premium device and legitimate alteative to the Galaxy S7 phone. The Nexus 5X was one of two Nexus phones Google released last year. CNET The move also illustrates the pros and cons of...

Enlarge ImageThis smart trash reports when it's full. Stephen Shankland/CNET OK, enough with the Inteet-coected refrigerator already.That appliance is becoming a reality, what with Samsung...

Enlarge ImageA note supporting Apple hangs on window of a San Francisco Apple Store. James Martin/CNET Apple is not backing down. CEO Tim Cook on Monday urged the US govement to drop its demands for his com...

Enlarge ImageA note supporting Apple hangs on window of a San Francisco Apple Store. James Martin/CNET Apple is not backing down. CEO Tim Cook on Monday urged the US govement to drop its demands for his company to create a backdo...

Enlarge Image Cerevo Everyone knows anime is big in Japan. And boe out of the country's intense fandom is insane merchandise, like Cerevo's new Dominator gun.The Dominator is a handgun from the popular cyberpunk TV series "Psycho Pass." In the show, it has the capability to judge a person's predilection for crime and, when confronted by the most extreme cases of villainy, tu a perpetrator into red paste. This incredibly deta...

Most of the things inventor and YouTube host Colin Furze has created are more for entertainment and shock value than actual usefulness. Case in point: his real-life Wolverine claws. Or his magnetic boots that let him hang upside down from anything metal. Or his high-voltage ejector bed. Or...well, you get the idea. But now Furze has created something truly useful. It's a remote-controlled garbage can that can be driven to the curb and back. The invention would save a lot of hassle. You could stand in your nice comfy house, and with a few pushes on a joystick, get your trash out in front of your house for pickup. When the can's empty, just grab the remote again and drive it back where it belo...

T-Mobile may want to hold off on taking a victory lap as the fastest wireless carrier.Verizon Wireless took the top honors in a study conducted by testing firm RootMetrics, which broke down the categories into states, metro areas and different areas such as speed, reliability and call performance. In virtually all of the categories, Verizon proved dominant. It's the fifth-straight time the New York carrier emerged as the top dog in RootMetrics' semi-aual study. The results add an interesting wrinkle to the conclusions drawn by rival testing firm OpenSignal, which crowned T-Mobile the nation's wireless speed king just two weeks ago. Cellular towers from Verizon helped it win RootMetrics' stud...