The Internet is now bigger than it was in “The Net.” Columbia Pictures Here’s a lesson in how to be a professional celebrity gossip in the Digital Age, or if you happen to be a celebrity, how not to entice them. For starters, if you’re Sandra Bullock, maybe don’t ask your lawyer to register domains …

Captain Voglezon in “uniform.” YouTube screenshot by Eric Mack/CNET To create a real American hero, there’s no need to spend millions on costumes, CGI effects and stunts. Apparently all it takes is a little US Army training and a faded T-shirt. When off-duty Army Captain Steve Voglezon put on his red “Captain America” T-shirt on Sunday, he surely had no …

Merlin is a house cat with a jungle-size roar. YouTube screenshot by Eric Mack/CNET In the YouTube era, the feats of strength that decide who or what holds sway over our eyeballs and ear bones have been replaced by a sense of novelty and wackiness…and by cats. Cat videos are the meme that won’t die, even after several years, and …

Dr. Evil would be proud of such destruction. Screenshot by Eric Mack/CNET Actor Verne Troyer, probably best known for his role as Mini-Me in the “Austin Powers” movies, has a new show on YouTube called “One Size Fits All,” and he spends most of the first episode shooting stuff with Richard Ryan. That’s a name that might also be familiar, …

Samsung’s Jong-Kyun Shin poses with “Avengers” gadgets. Samsung In ” Avengers: Age of Ultron,” currently out in theaters, Tony Stark is again surrounded by all kinds of nifty, futuristic gadgets, but Samsung would like us to believe that they’re from the near future. The massive device maker has a marketing deal with Marvel and presented some of the transparent-screen phones, …

Now playing: Watch this: The Internet memes we’re thankful for 6:13 It seems there was a big fight Saturday night between Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao. While I didn’t watch the match, I’ve been able to learn an awful lot about it via the awesome meme-fest that has resulted since Mayweather’s unanimous decision over Pacquiao. Before the fight even started, …

We may have just hit peak wearable. Kickstarter/CH4 A wearable device on Kickstarter right now promises to “keep track of your gases” so that it can analyze them and help you adjust your diet to make you, well, less gassy. Let’s just call this what it is — a wearable that sniffs your farts. (This actually could be a loss …

Always remember to remove your wearable before performing this test. Blendtec Some marketing gimmicks die hard. But with the release of the Apple Watch, which got delivered to customers on April 24, blender maker Blendtec and the “Will it Blend?” guy are back to put the watch through a torture test that’s more of an execution. It’s hard to tell …

Kathmandu as seen by a drone. Screenshot by Eric Mack/CNET The images and mounting death toll coming out of Nepal since a magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck near the capital of Kathmandu on Saturday have been sobering. But to really grasp the shock and devastation left by the quake in the city and in nearby base camp by Mount Everest, which …

This concept imagines all new ways to control the iPhone. ADR Studio It was only a matter of time before the Apple Watch inspired some far-out concept videos for new Apple products the faithful would like to see. Strangely, the arrival of the company’s first signature wearable has inspired the below bizarre take on an iPhone 7 that borrows the …