First introduced on Flipboard for iPhone, the feature gives you the articles that are considered most relevant based on users’ social connections and what they’ve already read.
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The CEO of the social gaming giant has had a placeholder Web site for years. Now the registration has expired, and Zynga risks embarrassment–and danger–from losing the domain.
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The Office of Naval Research is evaluating railgun prototypes from BAE Systems and General Atomics. One test has just been completed, and another will take place in April.
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Air Force has given clearance for its version of the Joint Strike Fighter to begin tests–a major milestone. The program could cost a trillion dollars over the next 50 years.
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In one of its rare celebrations of two noteworthy events, Google has created a special home page cartoon honoring not just the elusive February 29, but also Rossini’s birthday.
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According to The Verge, HP’s axe falls on the troubled division for cost-cutting reasons, and calls into question the computing giant’s commitment to the platform.
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The aviation giant handed over the first next-gen passenger 747 today to an “undisclosed” VIP buyer. Boeing expects to deliver the first commercial 747-8 Intercontinental soon.
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With its latest research, Big Blue says it’s reached device performance close to the minimum requirements for implementing a “practical quantum computer.” But many hurdles remain.
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With no Pixar film to beat, ‘Rango’ won the Academy Award for best animated feature, while “Hugo” won for best visual effects. Both victors show things are changing in Hollywood.
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As airlines wait impatiently for the next-gen, fuel-efficient plane, Boeing today replaces Dreamliner’s leader with the head of the highly successful 777 program.
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A new effort under way at the world’s largest museum and research institution could eventually mean more of its 137 million objects will be publicly available, even if just via 3D digital models.
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In October, the space agency discovered a 19-mile crack in Antarctica’s Pine Island Glacier. Now, NASA has created a video showing what the giant canyon of ice looks like up close.
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Known as one of the savviest tech investors, the founder of SV Angel has picked a slew of winners including Twitter, Groupon, Dropbox, Square, and Airbnb. He shares some thoughts with CNET.
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Tool shows what would happen if history’s most notorious nuclear weapons were dropped on different cities. It’s scary and sobering–and more than a million people have used it.
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With the Historic American Engineering Record, the National Park Service and the Library of Congress are celebrating some of the country’s best engineering projects.
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With its new SDK, the cloud communications leader is enabling everyone from iPhone game developers to big businesses to build simple tap-to-chat buttons into their apps.
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The new service means wireless carriers can sell customers a way to seamlessly make transactions at any credit card terminal with their phones, and no hardware has to be changed.
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The NBA’s latest star has been in the public eye for just days, and already there are seven books about him. It just goes to show what’s possible in the new world of book publishing.
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Connect by Getty Images provides Web site publishers quick access to the stock photo agency’s vast collection.
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Dozens of apps tie in seamlessly, but on the audio front, music has led the way. Now, radio news shows and podcasts are available by the thousands, and discovery is the goal.
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Monday is the 50th anniversary of NASA astronaut John Glenn’s mission to be the first American to orbit the Earth. On that day, Glenn became one of America’s most important heroes.
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First unveiled in December, the redesign aims to make it easier for Web users to find and discover the most important tweets and trending topics.
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The aviation giant’s next-gen plane took two weeks to fly a complex route over the Northern U.S. The result? A perfect satellite image for its marketing purposes.
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Dozens of jetliner models fill the skies. But you don’t have to be the only one who can’t tell a 737 from an A320, or a 747 from an A380.
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Bump launches version 3.0, a major redesign that yanked most major features. It’s not the only company to find that products can be better with fewer tools rather than more.
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The president’s re-election effort is looking for a boost in the middle of one of the most tech-savvy cities in the world. It’s not staffed up yet, but the campaign is looking for volunteers.
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Venerable blogging service is launching the “social publishing group” to help elevate some of its most popular communities. And yes, cats and celebrities are among the topics being pushed.
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The space agency may be best known for launching spaceships, but it also has an obsession with creating educational games that might inspire kids to one day become rocket scientists.
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When the sun goes down, that’s when the iPad gets busy for folks with news readers. The iPhone? It’s more of a daytime habit. If you’re building an app for both devices, heed the lesson.
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The Silicon Valley online payments startup grew by 1,000 percent last year and is hopeful it can repeat that level of growth this year. To do that, it’s had to move away from its early friends-and-family roots and embrace small businesses.
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According to The Washington Post, the Obama administration will unveil a new budget on Monday that will slash spending on NASA’s Mars rover program by 20 percent next year, with more cuts to come.
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After large numbers of longtime ‘Burners’ failed to get tickets during the event’s recent selection process, many claimed organizers had failed to adopt a sensible system. Now, those organizers are trying to calm community anger.
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The popular photo sharing app is rocked by news that it uploads contacts from iPhone users without permission.
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The hacktivist group releases a document filled with private information on a group of City Hall and police department personnel. One councilwoman, whom Anonymous thanked for her community support, was spared.
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At Tucson’s Pima Air & Space Museum, a group of vintage military aircraft have been reimagined by a series of contemporary artists. The exhibition is on through May 31.
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Professor Tom Green blames the radio hosts for a flood of vile tweets after they fan the flames over who owns the Twitter account @TomGreen.
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day on the job At one of the biggest sports sites in the country, preparing to make its Super Bowl coverage as strong as possible is probably the most important job of the entire year. CNET was on hand to see the plan take shape.
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With the third version of the critically acclaimed app, users will be able to drill down and see more of the videos their friends are sharing–and what their friends’ friends are watching.
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The new app from three former Zappos employees is designed to let people who have random things to sell post ads for them quickly, and for buyers to easily discover what’s for sale around them. And Craigslist isn’t even part of the equation.
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