The production designer of the “Matrix” films and “The Lego Ninjago Movie,” which is out now, takes CNET down a rabbit hole of Zack Snyder, Harry Potter, Star Wars and Lego.
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New and old technologies reveal what’s killing Australia’s great marine wonder.
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Have a Sonos speaker? Own an Amazon Alexa-powered device like an Echo or Echo Dot? Now you can control Sonos by talking into thin air.
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Cracking the “freezing robot” problem requires machine learning and a human-like understanding of how the world works.
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Welcome to the supremely fascinating world of object reentry risk analysis.
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Opinion: Phone calls from prison cost far too much. The FCC should intervene to help this broken market.
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The smart home market continues to heat up, and the legacy giants do not want to get locked out: quite literally. This morning, Assa Abloy, the $23 billion Swedish lock giant that owns Yale and many other brands — announced that it is buying US-based smart lock maker August Home to double down on new technology. Terms of the deal are not being disclosed but we have asked both August… Read More
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The city has to shore up its seawalls and modify its sewer systems to fight back rising tides. And it’s suing Big Petroleum over the bill.
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Tony Fadell co-created the iPod and Nest, then lost control of them. His latest project could be his most ambitious yet.
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Jinn, the London-based startup that offers a same-hour ‘shop on your behalf’ delivery app that operates quite similarly to Postmates in the U.S., has shut down, with the company in the process of going into administration. Read More
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