Marine Lance corporal Jessica Fine and her husband, Marine private first class Paul Fine are regulars at Compagno’s, a deli in Monterey, Calif., that is a favorite with local soldiers. Over the years, the soldiers have returned Co…
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Police intercept online threat, raid wrong house
It’s a good thing Milan wasn’t eating one of those at the time of the raid.(Credit: Food Network Screenshot: Chris Matysczyk/CNET)The occasional program on the Food Network can be quite frightening.There’s “Outrageous Food”, for e…
How to break into video game writing: advice from an expert
There are millions of kids who want to make a living writing about video games. Dan Amrich wants to create more of them. Or at least give them solid advice on how to succeed at getting their dream jobs as video game reviewers.That
Why Google wants us all to be Larry Nerd
(Credit: CNET)Can we agree that humanity is pickled?Our politics are an embarrassment. Our economies stink far more pungently than a full trash can in 100-degree humidity. And our inter-personal relations are so lifeless that they…
With $60B in cash, Microsoft is set to blow up its business
Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer introduces the Surface tablet in Los Angeles, Calif.(Credit: Josh Lowensohn/CNET)Editors’ note: This is a guest column. See Marty Wolf’s bio below. With the recent announcement of Microsoft’s new Surface …
Road Trip Pic of the Day, 7/1: What is this?
If you know what this is and where it is located, you could be eligible to win a prize in the CNET Road Trip Picture of the Day contest.(Credit: Daniel Terdiman/CNET)Welcome to the Road Trip Picture of the Day contest. This is you…
The Art Of Manipulation
Editor’s Note: Nir Eyal is a founder of two startups and an advisor to several Bay Area companies and incubators. He is a Lecturer in Marketing at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and blogs about the intersection of psycho…
With Tech From Space, Ministry Of Supply Is Building The Next Generation Of Dress Shirts
Nobody likes to admit it, but if you’re a working professional, there’s a good chance you’re familiar with sweat stains. The commute to work, the stress of meeting a deadline, the faulty air conditioning in the boardroom, cott…
Steve Would Be Proud: How Apple Won The War Against Flash
Late Thursday, an extraordinary thing happened: Adobe announced in a blog post that it would not provide Flash Player support for devices running Android 4.1, and that it would pull the plugin from the Google Play store on August 15…
Startup courts Millennials with social, crowdsourced news site
An image from the Instagram gallery on #waywire’s Facebook page. Way Millennial.A startup with seed money from the likes of Eric Schmidt’s Innovation Endeavors, LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner, Lady Gaga manager Troy Carter, and Oprah Wi…
Where Are All The iPad Shopping Apps?
For a tech company founder in San Francisco, I’m a terribly late adopter of new technology. My buddy in med school had a smart phone before I did. The iPhone was out for a year before I bought the 3G. The iPad? I’m embarrassed t…
#waywire, a video news network for Gen Y, gets backing from Eric Schmidt and Oprah
Raised on the Internet and versed in social media, today’s youngsters view the world in a different light. Here to serve and inspire these influential minds is #waywire, a New York-based startup that’s landed $1.75 million in f…
Tim Bray, internet trailblazer, seeks to eliminate usernames and passwords
Tim Bray, the Googler most famous for his prior role in editing the XML language, has set his eyes on a new challenge: eradicating usernames and passwords, at least as we know them today, from the Internet.Bray, who landed at Googl…
NFC Is Great, But Mobile Payments Solve A Problem That Doesn’t Exist
For the past few years, we’ve been told over and over again that NFC will eventually replace the common wallet. And yes, NFC is a great technology. Parts of Europe and China are using it for public transport transactions, and the …
Facebook e-mail mess: Address books altered; e-mail lost
An alarming number of people are reporting that the new e-mail address Facebook forced on users this week is changing their address books while intercepting and losing unknown amounts of e-mail.Facebook users say contacts’ e-mail …