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Description E L James revisits the world of Fifty Shades with a deeper and darker take on the love story that has enthralled millions of listeners around the globe. Their scorching, sensual affair ended in heartbreak and recrimination, but Christian Grey caot get Anastasia Steele out of his mind or his blood. Determined to win her back, he tries to suppress his darkest desires and his need for complete control and to love Ana on her own terms. But the horrors of his childhood still haunt him, and Ana's scheming boss, Jack Hyde, clearly wants her for himself. Can Christian's confidant and therapist, Dr. Fly, help him face down his demons? Or ...

Description The most important step is taking the first one. The fuy and talented Chip Gaines is well known to millions of people as a TV star, renovation expert, best-selling...

Description A set textbook at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry since publication, Newt Scamander's masterpiece has entertained wizarding families through the generations. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them is an indispensable introduction to the magical beasts of the...

Subscribe to the Apple Byte PodcastiTunes MP3 | RSS MP3 | FeedBuer MP3SoundCloud | Google Play | TuneIniTunes video | RSS video | FeedBuer videoYouTube | Livestream| Stitcher Extra Crunchy Podcast, Ep. 53 Your browser does not support the audio element. [embedded content]EXTRA CRUNCHY SHOW NOTES:See you on the 7th. Apple's InviteSamsung recalls Galaxy Note 7 over battery flawSpec Sheet Shows iPhone 7 Plus With 256GB Storage and Lightning EarPodsApple Headphones News:Apple Granted Product Certifications for 'AirPods', New iPhones and Apple Watch ModelsBragi teases 'big' aouncement happening next week in Cupertino, possible Apple d...

Niantic Labs In the last month, Pokemon Go developer Niantic has been stepping up its baing game, cutting off users who use third-party services to help them become Pokemasters. Bans were given to players using add-on maps that show Pokemon locations, emulators that allow you to play the game on a laptop or PC and bots that play the game for you, tricking the app into believing you are walking around when you are not and automatically catching Pokemon for you.Now, according to a post by Niantic CEO John Hanke, some of those bans are being reversed -- but only for those players using add-on maps."Some players ...

Enlarge ImageTrendForce expects most PCs will come with SSDs, not hard drives, in 2018. TrendForce They've been a fixture of the computing industry for 60 years, but in 2018, hard drives will be pushed aside by storage systems using memory chips in PCs, an analyst firm predicts.Hard drives revolutionized computing when IBM commercialized the first, RAMAC, in 1956. They read and write ones and zeros as tiny patches of magnetic information on rotating platters. But they don't fit well in phones, thumb drives and camera memory cards, which use a type of memory chips called flash instead. PCs with hard drives rema...

Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that's taken over our lives.Bad day in the bathroom. Getty Images It could happen to any of us. Our phones are so precious that if we dropped one down a public toilet, we'd climb in to get it back. Wouldn't we? What did you say? You'd call a Task Rabbit? This wasn't the choice of 20-year-old Cato Betsen Larsen. The Norwegian was in Drammen, southe Norway, when he participated in a drama.As Norway's VG News reports -- relying on the intrepid work of Drammens Tidende -- his friend's phone fell down a public toilet. Larsen, though, is svelte. He's ...

Enlarge ImageBrits hoping to see the Northe Lights earlier this week received a false alarm email. But hey, at least the lawn got mowed. Aloysius Low/CNET "Get off my lawn" took on new meaning on Tuesday. A group of British scientists sent out a notification that the Northe Lights would be visible in their area, but it tued out to be a backyard boo-boo.AuroraWatch UK is run by Lancaster University's space and planetary physics group, and uses readings from magnetometers to determine if the striking aurora borealis will be visible across Britain. The group uses Twitter,Facebook and email to let followers know w...

Subscribe to the Apple Byte PodcastiTunes MP3 | RSS MP3 | FeedBuer MP3SoundCloud | Google Play | TuneIniTunes video | RSS video | FeedBuer videoYouTube | Livestream| Stitcher Extra Crunchy Podcast, Ep. 52 Your browser does not support the audio element. Why you should update your iPhone right nowiPhione 7 NEWS:Apple Plans iPhone for Japan With Tap-to-Pay for SubwaysApple to Eliminate Home Button in 2017 iPhoneA Design Defect Is Breaking a Ton of iPhone 6 PlusesiPhone 6s Bests Samsung's New Galaxy Note 7 in App Speed TestSIRI NEWS:Siri's voice to benefit from machine leaing improvements in Apple's iOS 10Barbra Streisand...

You might think of drones as friendly things, like the DJI Phantom you fly yourself or those Amazon drones that could soon be delivering your groceries.Think again when it comes to military drones. An MQ-9 Reaper unmaed aerial vehicle with a 66-foot wingspan can loiter 50,000 feet above the Earth for a day at a time, poised to hit a target with a devastating 3,800 pounds of Hellfire missile payload. But as with all weapons, the awesome firepower of a drone needs to be aimed accurately. "It's less about technology than about strategy, about the way it's deployed," said Gavin Hood, director of drone drama "Eye in the Sky," out now on DVD and Blu-ray. "Drones are new but still a weapon of warfa...

[embedded content] He'll be back -- but definitely not as you expected.Should we call him "The Aold" in this new "Celebrity Apprentice" trailer? Screenshot by Mike Sorrentino / NBC Aold Schwarzenegger, who was aounced last year as the new host of NBC's Celebrity Apprentice reality series, is getting assembled and ready to terminate -- er fire -- a batch of celebrity employees.In a teaser trailer posted to YouTube Friday, the actor gets assembled by robots down in a secret lab reminiscent of, but likely for legal reasons not at all, the Cyberdyne Systems corporatio...

When you're about to have a child, one of the must-buy products is a baby monitor. Sure, you'll be sleeping in the same room for a few months, but if you want any alone time while the baby is napping, a monitor is paramount. Of course, picking the right monitor isn't as simple as it once was.There are the reliable, low-tech walkie-talkie monitors, but those won't let you monitor your child while you're at work or away from home with a babysitter left in charge. There are the high-tech wearable monitors, but those are expensive, they're scientifically unproven, and they won't tell you things like when a baby is crying. There's another category in between those two, though -- the video baby mo...

Google is sunsetting Chrome Apps for non-Chrome operating systems. Sarah Tew/CNET Google has touted its Chrome browser as all you need for desktop computing on any operating system. But the search giant said in a blog post Friday that it will gradually be phasing out the browser's apps for Windows, Mac and Linux machines. The apps range from photo-editing program Pixlr Touch Up to games like a now-discontinued version of Angry Birds. You download them from the Chrome Web Store, launch them from the Chrome browser and they open in a separate window, as if they were a program installed on your hard drive. ...

Enlarge Image Blizzard On this week's Girt by CNET, the team has Hearthstone Lead Designer Ben Brode and Magic: The Gathering's Mark Purvis in the studio talking about the current card game renaissance.With One Night in Karazhan, the latest Hearthstone adventure, now open to players and the Magic Pro Tour and Grand Prix just wrapping up in Sydney, we chatted with Brode and Purvis about how they manage to keep their games on the tops of the respective piles, the competitive scene and designing for players of all skill levels. Girt by CNET podcast 83 Your browser do...

Chicago-based artist and photographer Freddy Fabris used a very unlikely location to recreate some of art's most famous pieces, but the result is positively amazing....

Universal Pictures Home Entertainment on Wednesday aounced its first titles to be streamed in Dolby Vision: "The Huntsman: Winter's War," "Lucy," "Oblivion," and "Lone Survivor."The four titles will be available for rental or for purchase on the Vudu streaming service and require a 4K TV with Dolby Vision capabilities in order to experience the HDR effects.Following the aouncement, there are now almost 50 Dolby Vision titles available on Vudu from Universal, MGM, and Waer Bros. Meanwhile, Amazon has 10 titles and Netflix offers three: "Marco Polo," "The Do-Over" and "The Ridiculous 6."In CNET testing, HDR sources can deliver brighter highlights, improved details in some areas and more vivid...

Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that's taken over our lives.Enlarge ImageIs this the hell of an IT manager? BigPanda Are all the notifications getting to you?Does your phone buzz, ping and ding with far too many deeply unimportant messages?Imagine, then, you work in an IT department.It seems that, at least for some IT people, their brains are being addled by a constant stream of alerts. Can so many things be going wrong with IT systems? Are at least some of these alerts false alarms? How can you tell?A startup called BigPanda says it talked to more than 1,700 IT professionals ...

Close Facebook's newest ad-blocking tactic defeats Adblock Plus' workaround Drag That was quick. Just two days after Facebook found a way to sneak ads past ad-blocking software, the ad blockers have struck back. Adblock Plus, one of the best-known tools for blocking ads on the inteet, claims to have a ...

Subscribe to the Apple Byte PodcastiTunes MP3 | RSS MP3 | FeedBuer MP3SoundCloud | Google Play | TuneIniTunes video | RSS video | FeedBuer videoYouTube | Livestream | Stitcher Extra Crunchy Podcast, Ep. 50 Your browser does not support the audio element. [embedded content]APPLE BYTE EXTRA CRUNCHY SHOW NOTES:MACBOOK PRO NEWS:Apple Said to Plan First Pro Laptop Overhaul in Four YearsApple's Notebook Shipments Rise 30% on Strength of New 12-Inch Retina MacBookAPPLE WATCH NEWS:Faster Apple Watch 2 With GPS, Barometer, Larger Battery, and Same Thickness to Launch Later This YearUpgraded Apple Watch 1 Models Said to Launch Alongside Ap...

Between mass outages on Census night, controversy over data security and the taking of real names and addresses, public panic over denial of service attacks on the Census website and Prime Minister Malcolm Tubull blaming service provider IBM for inadequate plaing, the shambolic survey of the Australian people has raised questions about the reliability of the data, security of personal information and management of the half a billion dollar project.The Girt team go deep on what went wrong on the evening of August 9, and what it means for Australia's digital future. Girt by CNET podcast 82 Your browser does not support the audio element. ...