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Dig this: I operated a giant excavator from 2,500km away

CNET Editor Roger Cheng controlling an excavator in Sweden — while at a conference in Barcelona. Sarah Tew/CNET BARCELONA — Thanks to Ericsson, I can check off operating heavy machinery from my bucket list. No, the telecommunications equipment manufacturer didn’t have a massive excavator in its booth at the Mobile World Congress trade show here. But it had the next …

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Office 2016 for Mac gets first public preview

Microsoft says its goal is to make the software look and feel more like Office for Windows, while not losing the styling that makes the suite feel like it’s built for Mac OS X. Microsoft Five years after rolling out Office 2011 for Mac, Microsoft has made a first public preview of its successor, Office 2016 for Mac, available to …

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