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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...

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...

Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that's taken over our lives.Enlarge ImageWill this move the African-American community? If so, to what? Screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET Recent analysis suggests Donald Trump doesn't write all his tweets.On Saturday moing, however, his Twitter account was adoed with a musing that felt as if it came instantly from his exalted mind.It read: "Dwayne Wade's cousin was just shot and killed walking her baby in Chicago. Just what I have been saying. African-Americans will VOTE TRUMP!"On Friday, Nykea Aldridge, cousin of the Chicago Bulls guard, was...

Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that's taken over our lives.Enlarge ImageWhere on the dashboard is its moral compass? KAREN BLEIER/AFP/GettyImages I think of morality as a feather that shifts in the wind and occasionally brushes your face delightfully as it falls to earth.I'm still perturbed, however, whether technology has a fine grasp of it. Or whether it can.I'm moved by the news that Uber has launched its driverless vehicles in Pittsburgh. It crossed my mind whether these cars have already been programmed whom to kill if they face a moral dilemma.For example, the car is abo...

Close WhatsApp to share data with Facebook Drag WhatsApp just aounced that it updated its terms and conditions to permit the company to opt-in all one billion of its users to share information with Facebook. Facebook will take that information to find friends and also target ads better. WhatsApp is also working on ways for b...

Your airline will soon be able to tell you when your flight is delayed via WhatsApp. WhatsApp WhatsApp users, get ready for messages from companies looking for your business.That's the upshot from Thursday's update to WhatsApp's terms and conditions. The company outlined in a blog post the kind of interactions it wants to enable, including being notified by your bank about a potentially fraudulent transaction or being waed about a delayed flight. These are things we might currently be informed about by a text message or phone call. WhatsApp hopes to enable these notifications too, all while keeping spam and th...

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...

Firaxis and 2K have continued their unveiling of the various playable civilizations in the upcoming Civilization VI, and the latest to get the spotlight is Spain.Led by Philip II, Spain players will want to focus on spreading religion and expanding to other continents. This is true for a number of reasons, including the fact that Spain's special ability, Treasure Fleet, causes trade routes between continents to provide extra yield. Spanish ships can be combined with one another to create fleets sooner than those of other civs, providing a way to ensure those waterbound trade ships stay protected. On the religion side, Spanish units get a combat bonus when facing off against units o...

Close Smuggled phones and a wall of silence: Reporting on Australian detention Drag Smuggled phones and a wall of silence: Reporting on Australian detentionThis is part of our Road Trip 2016 summer series "Life, Disrupted," about how technology is helping with the global refugee crisis -- if at all.I was in the kitchen at my ...

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Enlarge Image Britney Spears/Twitter Spotify has suffered another blow in the ongoing online music-streaming battle: Britney Spears' "Glory", her first album since 2013, will be an Apple Music exclusive.The news was aounced by Spears herself, who said on Twitter that the album would be dropping on August 26.Both Apple Music and Tidal have managed to snag their own share of exclusives this year, but the same can't be said for Spotify. Frank Ocean's "Boys Don't Cry" will be an Apple Music exclusive upon its release this Friday, and Drake's "Views" was exclusive to the service for a week back in April. It'll rem...

"Game of Thrones" will indeed end its HBO run in season 8. HBO "Game of Thrones" is officially ending with Season 8.HBO's president of programming Casey Bloys aounced during his first presentation for the Television Critics Association fall previews that "Game of Thrones" will definitely end after the next two seasons. Bloys admitted that HBO would "take 10 seasons if we could," but show creators David Benioff and D.B. Weiss have been adamant that eight seasons was the right number.Bloys also confirmed that the show's delayed production of Season 7 will take "Game of Thrones" out of Emmy contention in 2017. T...

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...

Traces of deleted WhatsApp chats can linger on an iPhone, says security researcher Jonathan Zdziarski. Photothek/Getty Images If you're a WhatsApp user with an iPhone, your chats might not be as secure as you think.Despite the popular messaging app's aouncement earlier this year that it would encrypt all user data, a security researcher said Friday that the latest version of WhatsApp for Apple's iOS software for iPhones leaves some information vulnerable. The researcher, Jonathan Zdziarski, found traces of deleted chats, which can be pieced together into conversations, he said, and that's even if you've clea...

Traces of deleted WhatsApp chats can linger on an iPhone, says security researcher Jonathan Zdziarski. Photothek/Getty Images If you're a WhatsApp user with an iPhone, your chats might not be as secure as you think.Despite the popular messaging app's aouncement earlier this year that it would encrypt all user data, a security researcher said Friday that the latest version of WhatsApp for Apple's iOS software for iPhones leaves some information vulnerable. The researcher, Jonathan Zdziarski, found traces of deleted chats, which can be pieced together into conversations, he said, and that's even if you've clea...

Sony has aounced Driveclub VR will be available for the launch of its PlayStation VR headset in Japan. Although further details aren't available in English as of yet, a post on the Japanese PlayStation Blog states there will be a cockpit view and realistic 3D audio.Paul Rustchynsky, Driveclub's former director, confirmed on Twitter that there "is a collection of brand new tracks," for the PlayStation VR version. He did not provide any further details.Earlier this year, Driveclub developer Evolution Studios was closed by its parent company Sony. This was part of a wider restructure to Sony's European studios. Codemasters, the developer of the Dirt, Grid, and F1 series of racing games, later h...

Facebook has been ordered to issue refunds for accidental purchases made by minors. CNET Facebook users that have racked up hefty charges for in-app purchases made without their consent are now entitled to a refund.A Califoia court has ruled in favor of the plaintiffs in a 2012 class action lawsuit brought against the social media giant. The case applied to two children that accidentally charged thousands of dollars to their parents' credit cards buying Facebook Credits, a virtual currency that was retired in favor of Facebook Payments.While Facebook argued that the individual claims were too different, the w...

Despite a less-than-rosy eaings report, Apple avoided heavy fallout by beating some critical Wall Street estimates. These results signal that the upcoming iPhone 7, which likely won't have many new features, may sell better than analysts were predicting.We also discuss another strong quarter from T-Mobile and another bad quarter from Twitter.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. Apple's doomsday will just have to wait. (The 3:59, Ep. 85) Your browser does not support the audio element. ...

RoadshowNewsCar IndustryPorsche's electric Mission E will be a job creatorIt's gorgeous and it creates jobs -- seriously, it should run for office. Porsche Maybe Porsche should run for President. When it comes time to build its all-new, electric sports car, Porsche plans to add a number of jobs within its ranks. Looking to work with the German automaker? Now's your chance, maybe.Porsche originally estimated that its Mission E project would add some 1,000 jobs. Now, it's upping that estimate to 1,400. It will also expand its number of available apprenticeships from 150 to 220, Reuters reports. Most of the jobs...