How awesome must it be to watch a show and see your own workplace thrown into the middle of a spooky plotline? I know I looked at my college grocery-store job a little differently once I read Stephen King’s “The Mist.” (I ran a little faster through the creepy storage room where we had to …

We like to think Lucy would’ve found it all pretty funny. In 2009, a 400-pound bronze sculpture of comedian Lucille Ball was installed in Lucille Ball Memorial Park in her childhood hometown of Celoron, New York. But Ball’s friendly Vita-Meta-Vegamin slurping, chocolate-chomping face was almost unrecognizable. This wasn’t sweet, snappy Lucy who always wanted to be in the show. This …

Google said Monday its cloud storage and file backup service is experiencing a service disruption. Some Drive users are getting an error message that says “The server encountered an error. Please try again later.” The company said it will provide an update with more information on the problem by 1 p.m. PT. “We estimate that the issue is affecting less …

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Future Galaxy S phones could be available in a curved edge variant only. At a media interview in New York last week, Samsung Mobile President Dongjin Koh hinted the company may expand its curved display technology, the Korea Herald reported on Sunday. Samsung currently offers its Galaxy S7 phone in both flat-screen and curved-edge varieties. But that may change at …

The world is watching this summer’s Olympic games…unless you are in the US and don’t pay for a traditional television subscription. Is the antenna really the only way to watch the Olympics without a television subscription nowadays? Sarah Tew/CNET Unless you subscribe directly to a supported television provider, you can’t access the NBC streams online or through apps. And while …

You’ve booked yourself a car home in your ridesharing app when you decide to drop off your friend along the way. To save you starting a new ride on the app or negotiating with the driver, Lyft now includes the option to add different stops to your journey. The San Francisco-based car-booking app is adding the ability to add extra …

You might say he had a meteoric rise to the top. Or that he took one giant leap for mankind on the career ladder, just like his pal Neil. Or maybe you can just appreciate the hope he can give to camp counselors everywhere who are currently making macrame lanyards and teaching sunburned kids how to canoe but dream of …

Until now, if you wanted to change your name on Pokemon Go you needed to plead with Niantic’s customer support. The review process could take weeks and there was no guarantee customer support would let you change it. Now, you can change your nickname in-game. Here’s how: Tap on the Pokeball button at the bottom of the map screen Tap …

Now playing: Watch this: iPhone 7 could arrive with a new home button and a darker… 1:03 The iPhone 7 may not be a major upgrade, but it could offer several new features. CNET The iPhone 7 is likely to debut in another month, and rumors about its features continue to pour in. Apple is planning to revamp the home …

If given the choice between reading about cats that look like raccoons or a reading about a local political race, which article would you most likely click? If you said cats, you’re one of the people “Last Week Tonight” host John Oliver is addressing in a new video. In the video posted on YouTube Sunday, he says the kind of …

Amazon Prime Video users will be able to catch Woody Allen’s first-ever TV series come September. On Sunday, Amazon said Allen’s new show, entitled “Crisis in Six Scenes,” will kick off on September 30. Written and directed by Allen, the six-episode series takes place in the 1960s “during turbulent times in the United States, and follows a middle class suburban …

Living in Florida during a summer heatwave can be brutal, but the Backyard Scientist is here to help, or at least make it more interesting by building not only a liquid nitrogen squirt gun but also a flamethrower. In his latest video “Liquid Nitrogen Freeze-Ray Vs. Flamethrower” — posted on YouTube this past week — the Backyard Scientist has some …

Getting a tattoo can mark an important life moment, quite literally. But one thing that always seems awkward is having to make small talk with the tattoo artist as a painful needle scratches a design into your skin. With the latest advancements in robotics, human tattoo artists could be replaced with a giant robot arm that won’t judge you for …

When Marvel revealed that the Oscar winner Brie Larson would be play the lead in the upcoming superhero film “Captain Marvel,” the actress happily tweeted a photo of herself wearing a Marvel Studios baseball cap with the caption, “Call me Captain Marvel.” In fact, Larson is so excited about playing Carol Danvers that she has been regularly tweeting fan art …