The months-long, US-Israeli mission to find and kill Iran's Supreme LeaderGordon CoreraSecurity analystGetty ImagesThe attack that killed Iran's Supreme Leader came not in the middle of the night, as might have been expected, but in the middle of the morning. That was because the US and Israel decided to take advantage of a piece of crucial intelligence that had arrived hours before.For months,...

Honda Makes Surprise Bet on Solid-State Batteries With New Research Deal Honda agrees to a deal with battery-tech company QuantumScape. Honda Makes Surprise Bet on Solid-State Batteries With New Research Deal Why solid-state? Honda's wider electrification picture Honda R&D, the independent research and development arm of Honda Motor...

Who is John Ternus, the incoming Apple CEO? After 15 years, Tim Cook will hand off the Apple CEO role to John Ternus, the company’s senior vice president of hardware engineering. Starting on September 1, Ternus will lead one of the world’s most valuable companies, but if you’re not a dedicated Apple enthusiast, you’ve probably never heard of this man, who has largely remained out of the...

Is YouTube Still Down? Live Updates on YouTube OutageJust as people were settling in to primetime viewing hours on the east coast in the US and the end of the workday in the west, YouTube seemed to take a nap as more than 800,000 people in the US and hundreds of thousands elsewhere in the world reported the loss of the feed, according to Downdetector. The outage started to gain traction at 5...

Excited for New Emoji? You Could See These on Your Device Next Year These emoji still need to be approved but a pickle might replace the eggplant emoji in some contexts. Zachary McAuliffe Staff writer Zach began writing for CNET in November, 2021 after writing for a broadcast news station in his hometown, Cincinnati, for five years. You can usually find him reading and drinking...