Festo The family of animal robots created by German robotics company Festo is growing. As part of its Bionic Learning Network, the company has introduced two new robots: a swarm of ants that can operate cooperatively, and a butterfly robot that leverages the insect’s lightness. The ant robots — called BionicANTS — are not just …

ATLANTA — Sprint CEO Marcelo Claure praised the Federal Communications Commission’s decision to implement rules governing the open Internet — which includes wireless data — arguing that his company couldn’t survive without them. Sprint CEO Marcelo Claure says that the FCC’s new Net neutrality rules are necessary to keep AT&T and Verizon in check. Marguerite Reardon/CNET “Unless there is light-touch …

Get your binge-watch on with T-Mobile’s Samsung Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 Edge. Josh Miller/CNET T-Mobile, in an attempt to sway customers in its direction, will toss in $100 worth of video-streaming service with its Samsung Galaxy S6 . Not just any service, mind you, but one of the biggest names in the space: Netflix. Related Links Samsung Galaxy S6 …

Facebook’s new “On This Day” feature lets you relive the past. Facebook You can travel back in time to a certain day via a new Facebook feature. Known as “On This Day,” the feature displays status updates, photos, posts from friends, and other items that you shared or appeared in on this date in the past, Facebook said Tuesday. For …

Addial on an iPhone 6. Jason Cipriani/CNET Addial is a small app with one claim to fame: placing calls from the Today panel in iOS 8’s Notification Center. Once you install the app, you’ll need to add the widget to the Today panel in your iPhone’s Notification Center. You can do this by following the instructions here. Once it’s added, …

Fantastical 2 Mac year view. Jason Cipriani/CNET Fantastical is a calendar app from Flexibits for iOS and OS X. The iOS version was updated for iOS 7’s design language a while ago, with the Mac version having been left behind. Today, that changes. Flexibits is releasing Fantastical 2 for Mac. The upgrade is designed specifically for OS X Yosemite from …

Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg works to fire up the legion of developers attending the F8 conference in San Francisco. James Martin/CNET SAN FRANCISCO — A year ago, Mark Zuckerberg walked on a San Francisco stage promising a better relationship between Facebook and app developers. On Wednesday, he followed through. As CEO of the world’s largest social network, Zuckerberg touted initiatives …

Salt Lake City is among five metro areas targeted for the next rounds of Google Fiber. Google Salt Lake City is now on the list to get a taste of Google’s all-fiber network for super high-speed Internet and TV services. The Utah city joins Atlanta, Charlotte, N.C., Raleigh-Durham, N.C., and Nashville, Tenn., as the next metro regions in line, Devin …

Accessory Power This is an update of a deal I first wrote about last year. What’s changed? The price, of course: it’s now even lower! In a few days it will be April, and that means we’re heading into the second biggest gift-giving season of the year: Easter, Mother’s Day, Father’s Day and graduation. And what kid, mom, dad or …

Parse CEO and founder Ilya Sukhar talks about the Internet of Things during Facebook’s F8 developer conference in San Francisco. James Martin/CNET Facebook is fully jumping into the Internet of Things. The world’s largest social network introduced Wednesday a new set of developer tools for creating apps that will let users remotely control devices within their homes, such as garage …

Brian Acton of WhatsApp disappointed some in the audience at Facebook’s F8 developer conference. Paul Sakuma What does $19 billion buy you? Sometimes, it’s a spot of trouble. That’s what Facebook found out at its F8 developer conference in San Francisco on Wednesday when executives tried to explain to an eager crowd of app developers why it wasn’t going to …

The Oculus Rift, still only sold to developers as a work-in-progress, will be home to Facebook’s new interactive 360-degree videos. Nick Statt/CNET When Facebook accidentally dumped details of its F8 developer’s conference through a mobile notification yesterday, it cryptically mentioned its new so-called “teleportation station.” Now, we know what the social-networking company was talking about: spherical videos. These interactive short …

Now playing: Watch this: Beastgrip Pro hopes to tame phoneography 3:08 I once spent a day at CES photographing the different ways people had rigged out their phones, tablets, cameras and camcorders for reporting on the show: there seems to be an infinite number. Beastgrip Pro tries to take on all of them. And based on my preview of the …

FTC commissioners say their decision was based on staff recommnendations. CNET Three commissioners for the Federal Trade Commission on Wednesday defended their actions during its antitrust investigation of Google, denying reports that it ignored investigators’ recommendations to sue the search giant. Internal agency documents released last week revealed that Google avoided an antitrust lawsuit after the commissioners’ investigators issued a …

Onkyo CP-1050 Steve Guttenberg/CNET Onkyo must have noticed vinyl’s continuing upward sales numbers, the highest since 1997, so the company’s started selling turntables. Voila, we now have the direct-drive Onkyo CP-1050, and it’s a honey! First things first, I love the understated design; the CP-1050 isn’t retro or trying to look like a British record player. Build quality is solid, …