Telerobotics to help sick teen toss a baseball 1,800 miles
Stricken with a rare blood disease, 13-year-old Nick LeGrande will throw out the first pitch before today's A's-Yankees game thanks to a telerobotic pitching machine. by Using this telerobotic pitching...
View ArticleHilarious mockups of Apple's new Mac Pro
See what happens when Photoshop skills meets Apple's redesigned professional desktop. Ready to play Whack a Mac Mole? by Apple's features a striking and quite innovative design -- instead of multiple...
View ArticleAirbnb says it has generated $240 million for Paris
The peer-to-peer hotel service highlights how it helps the European city's economy. by (Credit: Airbnb) Airbnb, which , has highlighting how much money it pours into local economies. The company's...
View ArticleFunny or Die explains the new Apple ad: iPhone is your boyfriend
In a riveting reworking of the slightly unctuous new Apple ad, Funny or Die offer the deeper truths hidden with it. by She loves it. She really loves it. (Credit: Funny or Die Screenshot by Chris...
View ArticleFacebook plans for Home switch in Android app
CEO Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook will distribute Home through its main Facebook app -- once all the kinks are worked out. by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg at the Facebook Home launch in April. (Credit:...
View ArticleFacebook shareholders want to know how to use Facebook
The social network faces stockholders for the first time and finds that what they really want is customer service from Zuck. by (Credit: James Martin/CNET) Facebook's stockholder meeting showed off two...
View ArticleGoogle buys Waze in bid to improve mapping services
The acquisition, for which terms weren't disclosed, will leave the Waze in Israel and operating separately for now by Waze's mobile navigation app. (Credit: Waze) Google has bought Waze, the Israel...
View ArticleFacebook turns on data center at the edge of the Arctic Circle
With lots of water and the cool Nordic climate, Facebook is lowering its cost to operate a data center and improving its environmental friendliness. by Facebook's new data center takes advantage of the...
View ArticleApple fires back at DOJ with actual e-mail from Jobs
Justice Department presents a draft e-mail it said proved collusion, but Apple responds with e-mail actually sent that contained different content and tone. by After the Justice Department presented an...
View ArticleThe 404 Throwback: Episode 634, 07/30/10
Here's a throwback episode of The 404 Show where we interviewed Michael Showalter. The comedian behind "The State" and "Wet Hot American Summer" joins us in the studio to chat about his new "Making...
View ArticleESPN to drop 3D channel in 2013
ESPN has confirmed it will cease broadcasting its 3D channel by the end of the year and will focus on new technologies such as 4K. by (Credit: ESPN) ESPN has confirmed it will cease broadcasting its 3D...
View ArticleYahoo invites people to get a new ID
The company will reset inactive Yahoo user IDs and offer them to active or new users. by Yahoo app on Android. (Credit: Yahoo) Yahoo continues to clean house as CEO Marissa Mayer charges on to revamp...
View ArticleMan jailed in China for making rubber alien
A man called Mister Li posts images of a rather unconvincing alien on the Web. He is sent to prison for disturbing public order. by How Mr. Li presented his frozen find to the Shangdong Evening News....
View ArticleNavy stops 'shouting,' ditches all-caps requirement
Hey, U.S. Navy, could you keep it down? You don't have to shout. The Navy gets with the times and drops its requirement to communicate in all-capital letters. by This snippet is from a Navy message...
View ArticleGoogle creeps up on Microsoft at HP: Now office apps
Hewlett-Packard announces its entry into the Google Apps Reseller program as it cozies up to Google in business. by HP's $330 Chromebook. (Credit: Hewlett-Packard) Hewlett-Packard is now a Google Apps...
View ArticleTaiwan: Come for the tourism, stay for the free Wi-Fi
Taiwan uses free widespread Wi-Fi at 4,400 hot spots to lure tourists. Visitors just need to open an account on the iTaiwan Wi-Fi network. by (Credit: ) Taiwan is making it easy for foreign tourists to...
View ArticleApple's moving 9-minute ad about apps changing lives
Apple, not content with just one ad that tries to explain its ethos, now releases a longer movie about how its apps transform societies. by Life-saving. (Credit: Apple/YouTube Screenshot by Chris...
View ArticleThe 'Arrested Development' fighting game we must play
It's a GOB versus Tobias smackdown in an imaginary game that's "Arrested Development" meets Street Fighter. by (Credit: Video screenshot by Michelle Starr/CNET Australia) Internet, we love you, but why...
View ArticleFacebook CEO repeats PRISM denial: We push back to protect the privacy of users
The social network's chief insists that Facebook doesn't go out of its way to help the government collect user information. Quite the opposite, actually, he says. by (Credit: James Martin/CNET)...
View ArticleRumor Has It: What're you going to do now, Microsoft?
E3 and WWDC put several rumors to rest, but as expected, a few other rumors cropped up this week. by WWDC, E3 rumor scorecard: What we did and didn't get This week was just crazy. Among all the fun and...
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