version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"? An Uber self-driving car was involved in an accident in Tempe, Arizona. Fresco News/ Mark Beach Uber has suspended its self-driving-car pilot programs in Pittsburgh and Arizona after one of its vehicles was involved in an accident late Friday night. One of Uber's…

Andy Rubin, one of the co-founders of Android and a man who will never have to buy a drink in a bar full of developers, is working on something new. His company Essential is known to be working on a premium new smartphone to challenge the iPhone 8 and Galaxy S8, and in a photo published to Twitter…

Intel’s Optane Memory could be the most revolutionary letdown in storage history. Announced Monday morning, these first consumer Optane-based devices will be available April 24 in two M.2 trims: A 16GB model for $44 and a 32GB Optane Memory device for $77. Both are rated for crazy-fast read speeds…

Facebook on Monday announced Live Location, a new feature for Messenger users. Live Location will share your current location with friend or group of friends on Facebook Messenger for one hour, after which you go back off the grid until you decide to share again. Screenshots by Jason Cipriani/CNET…

In the photos, Uber’s gray self-driving Volvo SUV is on its side, headlights still blasting. The car behind it is badly dented. The pictures depict the aftermath of a three-vehicle collision that occurred Friday night (March 24) in Tempe, Arizona. Local police say there were no injuries and Uber’s…

London (AFP) - The British government said Sunday that its security services must have access to encrypted messaging applications such as WhatsApp, as it revealed that the service was used by the man behind the parliament attack. Khalid Masood, the 52-year-old Briton who killed four people in a…

An Uber self-driving Volvo drives in Pittsburgh Friday, March 17, 2017. (Photo: Gene J. Puskar, AP) Uber temporarily hit the brakes on tests of its self-driving cars following a crash Friday evening in Tempe, AZ, that involved one of the company’s autonomous vehicles. Vehicles in Arizona, Pittsburgh…

Everyone’s favorite real-time strategy game is getting a face-lift. As Blizzard president Mike Morhaime announced at this weekend’s I <3 StarCraft event in South Korea, the original game and its Brood War expansion are both getting an HD overhaul and being repackaged as StarCraft: Remastered , due…

Apple has bigger fish frying in the world of intellectual property . But it must be a relief that an IP court in Beijing has handed the smartphone pioneers a win. On Friday, the courts overturned a May 2016 ruling that said Apple had violated design patents of a small, and now defunct, Chinese…

This past Friday, Tesla CEO Elon Musk dashed the hopes and dreams of prospective Model 3 owners with just a few simple tweets. Tempering expectations, Musk emphasized that Tesla’s upcoming Model 3 will not be more advanced — in any capacity — than the company’s flagship Model S. “Model 3 is just a…

NINTENDO Nintendo NES Classic and Zelda Breath of the Wild news The Nintendo NES Classic Mini has once again vanished from shelves and online stockpiles, leaving many players unable to grab a mini console. The only option for many is to go online use a third-party marketplace to buy one,…

Enlarge this image Ariana Huffington speaks on stage during a conference in 2016 in New York City. She's taking a bigger role at Uber. Neilson Barnard/Getty Images Uber is in crisis. This week the president resigned , after just six months on the job. Morale has been shaken following a damning…

More bad news for Uber: one of the ride-hailing giant’s self-driving Volvo SUVs has been involved in a crash in Arizona — apparently leaving the vehicle flipped onto its side, and with damage to at least two other human-driven cars in the vicinity. The aftermath of the accident is pictured in photos…

Uber will suspend operation of its test fleet of self-driving vehicles in Arizona as it investigates a Friday crash there that ended with an autonomous vehicle rolled onto one side. No one was seriously hurt in the incident, according to local reports . According to authorities, a car failed to…

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Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that's taken over our lives. Watch out, kid. He may take your job one day. Mat Hayward, Getty Images Perhaps you've been worried that someone will soon design a robot that can do your job. Yes, a robot that can play politics even…

As Corsair’s first-ever PC, the One is impressive as hell. This tiny machine (which starts at $1,800) is fast, beautifully built, and perhaps more importantly—quiet, too. That’s no small feat for a PC that measures just 15 inches high, 7 inches wide, and 8 inches deep. According to Corsair a…

AT&T says it's pulling its business from Google and YouTube until Google can guarantee its ads won't appear alongside extremist content. (Photo: Justin Sullivan, Getty Images) SAN FRANCISCO — AT&T says it's pulling its business from Google and YouTube despite the Internet giant's pledge this week to…

The Android O developer preview just dropped , and we’ve been poking around to see what’s new with the latest version. So far, it’s hard to judge the new features on Android O since most require app developers to update their code, but some digging does show tons of interesting settings that hint at…

I bought the iPhone 6s Plus when it came out in September 2015 for $800+ (with taxes), and I couldn't be happier that I saved $800+ in 2016/2017 by not upgrading to the iPhone 7 Plus. Don't get me wrong. The iPhone 7 Plus is a great phone that's objectively better than the iPhone 6s Plus. It has a…

Before every episode of The Vergecast I sit down, read through a bunch of news, and take a bunch of notes. It’s one of the most enjoyable parts of my week, and I started thinking it might be fun to do every day on the site. So, every day this week I’m sitting down and writing some notes on the news…

Reddit Email A Tesla Model X driver with cat-like reflexes was caught on dash cam accelerating away from a 3-car accident that occurred on a busy California freeway. The video was posted to YouTube by Maaz Jilani that shows a driver of a Nissan Amada slamming on the brakes a second before colliding…

Did you know that trying to start a new game of Zelda: Breath of the Wild will erase all of your current save files? Please do not let this happen to you. Start a new Switch account before you start a brand new game. This weekend, I decided to get my fiancée into Breath of the Wild. She doesn’t play…

It’s hard to believe five years have passed since the March 2012 release of Mass Effect 3 , which cemented the trilogy as something of a modern cult classic among RPG fans. Given the prestige associated with the series, it should come as no surprise that it received a new title and even less of a…

"Hi, Bixby. What's Samsung planning to do with you?" A lot, it turns out. Bixby is Samsung's new digital voice assistant , and it will debut on the upcoming Galaxy S8 . It will have its own dedicated button on the side of the phone, letting you communicate with the artificial intelligence in a sort…

Sarah Tew/CNET It's not me, Google. It's you. We had some great times together. Starting with the Galaxy Nexus all the way through the final Nexus phone, the 6P, I have owned three of Google's flagship phones. Unlike phones from nearly all other Android vendors, Google's Nexus phones came with an…

Gabor Balogh This fall, Apple is expected to launch its next-generation iPhone. And because 2017 marks 10 years since Steve Jobs first introduced the revolutionary Apple product, expectations are high. Predictions for what new features Apple might introduce with the iPhone 8 (or iPhone Edition, or…

With less than 10 days to go before Samsung officially takes the wraps off its new Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S8+ flagship smartphones, the dam is officially broken. A steady trickle of leaks and rumors over the past few weeks turned into a massive flood, with more than 15 — that’s right, fifteen — big…

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Instagram's live video feature is now a bit less ephemeral, thanks to the Facebook-owned social media company's announcement on Monday that its users can now save any live videos they broadcast through the app. The new capability more closely aligns Instagram's video feature set with that of its…

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Add this one to the growing pile of evidence that the world is slowly transitioning into a sci-fi dystopia: a billionaire entrepreneur with a side-line building space rockets has been showing off piloting a 13-foot-tall robot. Amazon CEO and fifth richest person in the world Jeff Bezos got behind…

Uber President Jeff Jones is reportedly leaving the ride-hailing service after about six months in the job. The resignation comes less than two weeks after company CEO Travis Kalanick admitted he needed to "grow up" and said he would seek leadership help. The ride-hailing service has had a rough…

Samsung The launch of the Samsung Galaxy S8 March 29 will represent a comeback for the company's mobile unit, which is recovering by the Galaxy Note 7 disaster. What's unclear is how Samsung Galaxy S8 flagship phone will fare given the multiple unknowns the company is facing. Samsung's Galaxy S8…

Leak: Samsung Galaxy S8 Appears in Violet March 18, 2017 - Written By The Samsung Galaxy S8 has been leaking all over the place lately, and with Samsung getting ready to announce the device in less than two weeks, that’s not a huge surprise. Now the Galaxy S8 apparently posed for the camera in…

In the smartphone market, Samsung found success not by differentiating and carving its own path, but by taking a page out of Apple’s playbook. Or should we say, 132 pages . Apple turned the cell phone industry on its head in 2007 when it released the original iPhone. There was certainly no better…

It’s the first enterprise tech IPO of the year and it’s off to the races. MuleSoft, which helps businesses like Netflix and Spotify with their APIs , closed at $24.75, a 46% premium to its IPO price of $17. This was after pricing above the expected range of $14 to $16. The company was able to raise…