Now playing: Watch this: Change these Windows 10 settings for a better experience 2:13 Did you upgrade your PC to Windows 10? If so, ever wonder what happened to the previous version of the OS? It probably disappeared into the mists of Windows past, right? Wrong. Your old OS didn’t get erased; rather, it’s lingering …
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Enlarge ImageEd White became the first American to “walk” in space on June 3, 1965. On his left arm is an Omega Speedmaster. NASA For as long as there have been humans in space, there have been watches accompanying them on their wrists, with the most famous being the Omega Speedmaster worn by NASA’s astronauts. Now, with the age of …
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Check out all the places we’ve been on CNET’s Road Trip 2015. LOS ANGELES — Want to be a star? Aspiring entertainers still find themselves, suitcase in hand, heading to Hollywood. But the quest is no longer for that breakthrough audition in front of a big-name director. These fame-seekers are making bee-lines to studios tucked away in lesser known pockets …
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Porn stars Eva Lovia and Johnny Sins want you to give them $3.4 million so they can have sex in space, presumably because that’s how much it will cost to disinfect an entire spaceship. PornHub, via Indiegogo Due to the rise of private space travel, it won’t just be elite pilots able to ride in a centrifuge at high g-force …
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The European Space Agency and NASA astronaut Terry Virts have broken new ground in Earth-to-space communications, proving that the International Space Station is just a robotic handshake away. Related Links NASA’s Pluto probe could carry your photo to aliens Watch the drunken wobble of Pluto’s smaller moons Tempting blue pools in vivid Mars photo aren’t what they seem In a …
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The free Mophie Space 2.0 app for iOS and Android has been redesigned to work with or without Mophie hardware. Mophie Mophie doesn’t want you to think of it just as hardware company anymore. Not that it isn’t making new hardware — more on that in a minute — but with the release of Space 2.0, its free app for …
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SpaceX’s CRS-5 Dragon spacecraft in orbit. The company’s latest project aims to connect Earthlings to the Net using thousands of satellites. SpaceX Elon Musk, the man who’s determined to move our civilization to Mars, will also tackle creating an Internet in space. The CEO of Tesla Motors and SpaceX said Friday night that he will use a fleet of satellites …
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Omega Since 1965, when the Omega Speedmaster was NASA-certified for space travel, the watchmaker has served as the official timepiece supplier to the final frontier. On July 21, 1969, the Omega Speedmaster was the first watch on the moon. Its history spans over half a century of space travel — continued in the watch’s latest edition, the Speedmaster Skywalker X-33 …
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Jason Cipriani/CNET Editors’ Note: This article was originally published April 24, 2012, and has been updated to reflect current offerings. If 2014 isn’t known as the year of wearables, it could be known as the year of cloud storage. Between updates to Google Drive and Dropbox, and revamped offerings from Apple’s iCloud Drive, Amazon’s Cloud Drive and Microsoft’s OneDrive, access …
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Matt Elliott/CNET Welcome to Mac Mondays! Each Monday, the team at CNET How To will go in-depth on ways you can improve your Mac. We’ll talk performance upgrades (for old and new models), hardware hacks, and workflow tips. This is where you’ll go to find out how to release your Mac’s potential and make the most of your purchase. I …
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