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There’s nothing quite like the rage of getting a terrible taxi and not being able to vent your anger. We’re pretty used to starring our Uber drivers, but there’s no doubt traditional taxis have been lacking when it comes to rating and reviewing good and bad drivers. Ingogo wants you to hang on to the …

China’s clamping down on users who rely on virtual private networks (VPN) to break free of its notorious internet filter. Dubbed the Great Firewall, the filter blocks access to news sites deemed undesireable by the Chinese government as well as social media sites such as Twitter and Facebook, platforms the Chinese government has no control over. To bypass the restrictions, …

Conversations with robots are still pretty crummy. Anyone who’s had to bark at Alexa three times to turn off the lights knows this irritation quite well. Now a new study from Adobe, released Thursday, provides some insights into how much folks use voice assistants and how much they like — and dislike — them. In all, 37 percent of people …

Apple has released the public beta of MacOS High Sierra, which means that you don’t need a developer account to check out the next version of MacOS. All you need is an Apple ID. Before you go out and update your Mac with the beta, however, you should use some caution. As with any beta software, you may run into …

Ahh Netflix. It is the price by which we value virtually everything else on the internet. No more, “That’s the price of two coffees.” Now it’s all, “Oh yeah, that shirt is worth three months of Netflix, I’d go there.” But from today, your Netflix bill (and, if my economics training is correct, the value of everything on the internet, …

On the right armrest of my captain’s chair, on the bridge of the USS Aegis, a button glows tantalizingly red. One press, and my crew will go to battle stations, raising shields and arming photon torpedoes.  But what’s the fun in that? Everyone knows real Starfleet captains use their lungs to issue commands — and starting today, Ubisoft’s VR game Star …

Now playing: Watch this: iPhone origin story: ‘Because Steve hated this guy at… 3:03 The iPhone might never have existed if Apple co-founder Steve Jobs didn’t “hate” an executive at Microsoft.  Scott Forstall, the former head of Apple’s software business and the man who created iOS for the first iPhone, on Tuesday said Jobs couldn’t stand an executive at Microsoft …

How secretive was Apple about the first iPhone? Engineers working on the project didn’t even know what it really could do.  When building the first iPhone leading up to its release in 2007, Apple put together a group of engineers and designers tasked with working on the top-secret project. Hardware engineers didn’t even know what the software could do, and …

 Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that’s taken over our lives. He’s so tired, but he wants you to cry with happiness. Apple/YouTube screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET Being Apple is exhausting. So many people to please, so many gadgets to make and so many members of the media spying and spewing words on your every gesture. …

This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. Back in 1992, Bill Clinton was elected US president, Microsoft released Windows 3.1 and digital photo experts created the JPEG image format. The first two are mostly matters for historians now, but a quarter century later, JPEG remains a part of our daily …