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5 February, 2012 - 08:25
The death of Micron Technology's CEO during a solo flight in a hard-to-handle aircraft symbolizes the risky memory chip market that is the company's bread and butter.
5 February, 2012 - 07:54
In a news conference, the New England quarterback mentions that while rehabbing last year in Costa Rica, he watched the big game on an illegal site. Is this the final validation for piracy?
5 February, 2012 - 05:39
Noise-reduction technology from a start-up called Audience accounts for the size of the iPhone 4S chip and keeps Siri off the iPhone 4, analyst Linley Gwennap concludes.
5 February, 2012 - 05:24
As the Giants battle the Patriots on Sunday, viewers have dozens of ways to keep up with the game--by live streaming, watching on cell phones, or subscribing to apps and social-media feeds.
5 February, 2012 - 05:07
Tweeting harder to resist than sex, coffee, and alcohol, say researchers from the University of Chicago. Now, let's just see you try to resist tweeting this story.
5 February, 2012 - 04:56
In Taiwan, a man dies while gaming In an Internet cafe. Reports suggest no one notices for nine hours. But, regardless of how long he was actually dead, how could it be that no gamer notices until a waitress finally thinks to check?
5 February, 2012 - 02:07
A research note from Citigroup says Apple CEO Tim Cook is not leaning toward a future MacBook Air with iPad-like features. So, now what?
5 February, 2012 - 01:57
Why buy when you can rent, borrow, or stream books for a lot less cash?
5 February, 2012 - 01:43
The Facebook chief may be on the hook for $2 billion in taxes with his company going public. But he's not necessarily all that upset about it, because Facebook in turn gets a tax deduction.
5 February, 2012 - 01:00
The Commercial Juicer at Hammacher Schlemmer offers regular consumers the opportunity to upgrade their home juicing volume. For a price.
4 February, 2012 - 23:36
From 1981 to 1984 RCA marketed the CED VideoDisc system. It never had a chance.
4 February, 2012 - 21:00
We realize you might have been busy gathering party supplies for the Super Bowl, but we're a team player, so we've rounded up this week's top Crave stories just for you.
4 February, 2012 - 20:04
From Kickstarter project to startup to aspiring global power: The big ambitions of Romotive's robot phone.
4 February, 2012 - 20:00
Apple hired a new head of retail, had a few bouts in foreign courts, and potentially had the secret behind its next tiny iPod leaked out. More on those stories (and then some) in this week's Apple Talk Weekly.
4 February, 2012 - 20:00
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 the most important job of the year. CNET was on hand to see the plan take shape.
4 February, 2012 - 10:15
The correlations between classic arcade games like Centipede and popular mobile games like Angry Birds are undeniable: they're simple, fun, and addictive. Seamus Blackley has hired a slew of old-school game developers to try to cash in on that fact with his company Innovative Leisure.
4 February, 2012 - 09:46
Changes are afoot again for Firefox. The beta channel can now sync add-ons, the Aurora channel completes a smoother update process, and work on the faster native UI for Android continues.
4 February, 2012 - 09:16
The big game is this Sunday and I've put together a collection of games for both iPhone and Android that let you play the role of different players on a football team.
4 February, 2012 - 08:42
Transportation design firm Motive Industries released sketches of what a pickup made of composite material could look like.
4 February, 2012 - 08:30
CNET tracks all the iPhone 5 rumors--from the likely to the crazy--that we've heard so far in 2011 and 2012.
