8 terrible ways to leave your job Go out in a blaze of infamy with these slick moves. Now playing: Watch this: 8 terrible ways to leave your job 1:38 Top 5: Luxury car technologies Brian Cooley runs down his Top 5 list of over-the-top technologies in cars that are all about luxury. Now playing: …

Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht, who went by the online handle “Dread Pirate Roberts,” was sentenced to life in prison for operating the online illegal-drug marketplace site. Ross Ulbricht/LinkedIn Ross Ulbricht, the convicted founder of online illegal-drug marketplace Silk Road, has been sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. The sentencing of the 31-year-old San Francisco man …

MIT’s crazy and amazing robotic cheetah has learned a new trick. Now, the four-legged robot that can run and jump like a real animal can detect and jump over obstacles. A video posted to MIT’s YouTube channel on May 28 shows the Cheetah 2 robot running on a treadmill and in an indoor gym at a speed of around 5 …

Android Pay may be Google’s next chance to get mobile payments right. CNET Remember Google Wallet? With all the fanfare surrounding Google’s new digital payments system, Android Pay, it’s easy to ignore the fact that Google already launched a different payments system — four years ago — called Google Wallet. That earlier service was unceremoniously snubbed during the Google I/O …

The IndieSolo, shown off at this year’s CES. CNET Grip Gear, which created a handheld gadget to steady smartphone videos, officially launched its first product, the IndieSolo, Friday on Amazon Exclusives. The device from the small Hong Kong startup made a splash at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show, with its ability to let users pan, tilt and roll shots using …

Millennials and deep-pocketed investors have escalated Snapchat’s valuation. Snapchat Already flush, Snapchat just got more cash. After raising $200 million in March, the photo-messaging app has raised an additional $537.6 million, according to government documents released on Friday. Those securities filings suggest that Snapchat might pull in another $112.3 million in funding, bringing its total for this year alone to …

If you’ve been on the lookout for pranksters crashing your iOS device through text, you now will need to look in other places. Watch out for those Snapchat notifications! Snapchat An iOS bug surfaced earlier this week that crashes a device running Apple’s mobile operating system whenever a string of characters in non-Latin script, including Arabic or Chinese, is sent …

About half of sports fans said they’d pay to stream their favorite games. Getty Images Sports TV is some of the most expensive around, but a new survey says it isn’t how cable companies can sack cord cutting. Of cable subscribers, 67 percent said sports weren’t the reason they kept their service, according to a survey by Clearleap, a company …

Intel’s bid for Altera could mark yet another major deal in chips this year. Ben Fox Rubin/CNET Here we go again. Intel’s plan to acquire fellow chipmaker Altera looks to be heating up again, a little more than a month after the expected deal reportedly fell apart. Now the New York Post cites a source close to the situation saying …

Google’s updated version of Cardboard works with any device up to six inches, including Apple’s iPhone. Caitlin Petrakovitz/CNET Google has an ambitious plan for the future: help nearly anyone with a smartphone to experience virtual reality. The technology industry is preparing for an onslaught of new devices that mount on your head, immersing you in computer-generated worlds ranging from space …

Though Netflix is always the top hog of Internet traffic in North America, HBO’s streaming-video properties made a leap in traffic share the night of the latest “Game of Thrones” premiere. HBO HBO’s fledging online-only streaming service HBO Now made a dent — a small one — in Internet traffic when it launched, and it has “Game of Thrones” to …

Amazon is reportedly getting ready to offer its own branded line of food items such as milk, cereal and baby food. Josh Miller/CNET Amazon is reportedly ready to ramp up its battle with major retailers by expanding its fledgling lineup of private-label brands to include grocery items. The online retail giant is preparing to add milk, cereal and baby food …

Google introduced its first Cardboard virtual reality kit at its developer conference last year. CNET It’s time for Cardboard 2.0 and Google’s latest push with virtual reality. Google on Thursday detailed its newest virtual reality device, the second-generation Cardboard. The new version is an even simpler product than the initial device, taking only three steps to construct instead of 12, …

Here come the Amazon boxes. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Prime by bedtime. That’s a phrase millions of Amazon Prime members may start reciting, thanks to the online retailer adding free, same-day deliveries to the $99-a-year membership program. For now, Amazon’s new service, unveiled Thursday, will be a stripped-down version of Prime’s current, free two-day deliveries. Over 1 million items will be …

Baby got Back (button). Haloband Navigating an iPhone can be a pain. There, I said it. Sure, the Home button is right where your thumb can get at it, but the Back button? It’s way up in the left-hand corner, and pretty much out of reach on an iPhone 6 or 6 Plus. That sound you hear is Android users …