Enlarge Image Check your allergies at the door… Screenshot by Eric Mack/CNET If you really want to get a sense of a place, like from the street level, it makes sense to be closer to the street itself. In Japan’s Hiroshima prefecture, arguably no one has their (really cute little) ears closer to the ground, …
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Jon Stewart became an icon telling jokes on “The Daily Show” that highlighted the absurdities of the American political system. But an online petition calling for Stewart — who hosted his last episode on August 6 — to moderate a major presidential debate before the election in 2016 is quite serious. The Change.org petition was started two weeks back but …
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Enlarge ImageDonald Trump takes a jab at Jeb Bush as Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker looks on. Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Onstage Thursday night in Ohio at the first GOP debate, the leading Republican presidential candidates debated the issues, political correctness, and of course — Trump. There were plenty of digs and zings, but who really scored points and caught …
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Big truck stunt guy Gregg Godfrey has probably jumped a longer distance in a semi-trailer truck than you. Evel Knievel Days Many of the crazy car chases and stunts seen in today’s Hollywood movies seem to defy physics or logic in such a way that we no longer expect to see such things happen in real life, except perhaps during …
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Slacktivists, unite! Screenshot by Eric Mack/CNET In case you haven’t heard the news or you’ve deliberately ignored it to prevent your brain from going numb, Greece is again on the verge of defaulting on a big chunk of money — about $1.77 billion, in fact — that it owes the International Monetary Fund for bailing it out a few years …
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Tom Ford’s pocket iWatch. pic.twitter.com/VwU8JSI5k6 — Matthew Schneier (@MatthewSchneier) June 15, 2015 Steve Jobs famously restricted his own kids’ iPad time, so he might also have approved of limiting direct skin contact with Apple’s first wearable by taking the Apple Watch off the strap and putting it on a chain in one’s pocket instead. Leave it to fashion king Tom …
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Maron in CNET’s studios. CNET President Obama has gone on late-night talk shows, been ribbed by Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert and even endured an appearance on ” Between Two Ferns.” But his next non-traditional political media appearance has us all saying “WTF?” Comic Marc Maron, host of the ever-popular “WTF With Marc Maron” podcast that revolves around in-depth, often …
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America, it is time to seize the meme-ent! Video screenshot by Eric Mack/CNET All hands on deck, Internet! On Tuesday morning, you were gifted the greatest meme-generation machine ever when real estate mogul, reality television star, Birther and general loudmouth Donald Trump finally announced he’s seeking the Republican nomination for the American presidency. Let’s get one thing straight at the …
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This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. Apple With a little help from comedian Bill Hader, Apple kicked off its Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) in San Francisco Monday morning by lampooning the extravagant hype machine of the tech world. Related stories WWDC coverage iWatch satire skewers Apple before WWDC Kids …
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Get ready for the biggest party of Swift programming language enthusiasts all year… Apple It’s an exciting time of year once again for Apple faithful as the company prepares for its Worldwide Developers Conference, starting Monday at Moscone Center in San Francisco. As its name suggests, WWDC is largely about upgrades to software, the lifeblood of Apple’s remarkably successful hardware, …
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