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INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES, USA TODAY, AND LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLER!“So many questions...Until the very last page! Needless to say, I could not put this book down!” —Reese Witherspoon“Once again the a...

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Enlarge Image Screenshot by Luke Lancaster/CNET She looked good as ever in the US Open's first round, so it's appropriate that Snapchat is showcasing Serena Williams' 22 major touament victories.Snapchat Discover usually makes use of the platform's photo and video sharing to serve up ads, but the ESPN chael has offered up something a little more engaging than the usual multimedia fare with the Serena Williams' Match Point game.Each of the pro's 22 major touament wins are showcased with faithfully recreated set dressing (or as close as 8-bit graphics can get you). The game is based around a single tap on the sc...

Attendees at next month's Google Play Indie Games Festival will have a chance to play more than two dozen new games, some of which are not yet widely available.Google on Monday unveiled the 30 Android games selected from more than 200 submissions vying for a chance to be exhibited at the conference. Fifteen of the games showcased are on a very limited beta, so this is the best opportunity many will have to play them.Fans will have an opportunity to vote for their favorite games at the festival. A complete list of the games chosen for exhibition can be found here.Google also aounced that it has opened up registration of the event, which will be held in San Francisco on September 24. The even...

Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that's taken over our lives.Enlarge ImageKliff Kingsbury, on the right, appearing on the podcast. The HawkCast/YouTube screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET College athletes live an interesting life.They're suddenly placed on a higher plane and asked to perform daily.They're fawned upon when they win and vilified when they lose. In some cases, it's said that colleges are so desperate to persuade these young men to join their athletic programs that schools hire attractive young women to increase the attraction of the school.Once athletes are on the ...

Enlarge ImageNow that the PlayStation Now streaming service is coming to Windows, could consoles end up losing out to the cloud? Mike Sorrentino/CNET Can streaming services like PlayStation Now end the console war? Or will the battle between Microsoft's Xbox and Sony's PlayStation consoles continue forevermore? Chat with us live today on CNET's Livestream and YouTube pages at 3:30 p.m. ET, 12:30 p.m. PT and 8:30 p.m. UK, where the Open_Tab crew will dive into whether these machines could get displaced by the cloud. Plus, we check out the Geckobot -- a green robot that when assembled can climb up walls.[embe...

Enlarge ImageWhat a moment. HBO Congratulations to Richard B. of South Richmond Hill, New York, for wiing our swag bundle from San Diego Comic-Con last week. On the downside, season 7 of "Game of Thrones" won't retu until summer 2017. On the bright side, we're giving away the complete sixth season on digital HD to tide this week's wier over. The download for iTunes, Vudu, Google Play or Flixster includes all 10 episodes so you catch up on your favorite characters from Westeros and Essos and find out what happened after the shocking season 5 finale. (If you've somehow managed to steer clear of spoile...

[embedded content] Blizzard unveiled a new map for its team-based shooter Overwatch at Gamescom in Cologne, Germany this Tuesday. Eichenwalde, set in Stuttgart, Germany, joins the 12 other inteational destinations that serve as arenas for players to explode each other over control points and payloads.Eichenwalde is an Assault and Escort hybrid map, which looks like it will have the attacking team escort a battering ram up to the castle gates before storming the keep. Prepare your best Reinhardt laugh (and your excuses for when you charge the German knight directly off the edge of the map).Overwatch recently surpassed 15 million players and is cur...

The '80s creature-feature sensibilities of horror-adventure series "Stranger Things" have struck a chord with fans who love everything from kids classics "Goonies" and "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial" to terrifying movies like "Alien" and "Poltergeist." So it makes sense the Netflix show about kids searching for their friend lost in another, parallel world would become a perfect muse for fans wanting a retro-looking video game featuring characters from the show. Game artist Midio decided to do just that. On Monday, he tweeted an animated GIF of the the main characters Eleven, Mike, Lucas and Dustin looking for their friend Will where he disappeared into the creepy woods. ...

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The karst rises from the flatland as if escaping the underworld, violently forced up by something down there. The truth is the opposite. The stark, imposing rocks are what's left after millions of years of weathering take their toll on the surrounding land. Towers of stone form the base, literally and figuratively, for the magic of this place. Somehow, impossibly perched atop these majestic peaks, are buildings. Not just a stone hut, but extensive complexes of beige rock and red roofs. They rise up where the stone ends, is if carved. As you marvel at one, you notice another, and then another. A series of these incredible buildings, made without roads, cranes, or even... stairs. ...

Enlarge Image Richard Heathcote, Getty Images Some athletes at the Rio Olympics have taken swipes at competitors from other nations -- but that's not the only swiping going on.The 11,000-plus athletes competing in the 2016 Olympic games have given Tinder's Brazil business a big boost. Matches in the Olympic Village have increased by 129 percent, Rosette Pambakian, VP of Global Communications & Branding at Tinder, said to the Associated Press. It appears such activities weren't totally unexpected. The Olympic organisers prepared 450,000 condoms for athletes to use, according to the publication. That truckl...

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This grape rides a spider in Google's latest Doodle for its Fruit Games event. Google Grape is getting its game on for Google on Sunday.As part of the search giant's third day of the 2016 Doodle Fruit Games, the delicious berry is showing off its show jumping prowess in an interactive game added to the Google app on iOS and Android. The game can be accessed by tapping the doodle inside the app.The game features a grape riding on the back of his trusty steed Spider as the pair leap over hurdles. Google says the bite-sized treat and its eight-legged friend have been inseparable since they landed in the same cra...

It's pineapple vs. orange on the teis courts of Google.Pineapple serves the teis ball to Orange in Saturday's Google Doodle, available in the iOS and Android app. Google / Screenshot by Mike Sorrentino As part of the search giant's second day of the 2016 Doodle Fruit Games, a teis minigame where players control a pineapple's match against an orange has been added to the Google app on iOS and Android. The game can be accessed by tapping the doodle inside the app.A Google Doodle featuring the pineapple is also one of two that can be seen on the Google website Saturday, the other being a doodle celebrating Boliv...

Check out "Broadway Joe" Namath's latest role: virtual host of the newest exhibit inside the Pro Football Hall of Fame.A hologram of the football great introduces "A Game for Life," a 3D display set in a state-of-the-art theater designed to resemble an NFL locker room.Meet "Broadway," um, "Holographic" Joe Namath, host of the newest exhibit, "A Game for Life," at the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio. Pro Football Hall of Fame "It will give the fans goose bumps," Namath, a hall of fame quarterback himself, promised in a recent phone interview. "They will be blown away." The exhibit, which fans see fi...

It's been 20 years since "A Game of Thrones" was released. In August 1996, a very different Clinton was President of the US, " Macarena" and "Waabe" were the top of the charts, and NASA aounced the discovery of evidence of primitive life on Mars contained within a meteorite. For one thing, "Game of Thrones" was not George R. R. Martin's first book. By the time that book published, he was already a three-time Hugo Award wier (once each for best novella, novelette and short story), an established novelist, and a screenwriter (including writing episodes for the 1985 revival of "The Twilight Zone"). Now, five books and seven HBO seasons later, we all ...

It's been 20 years since "A Game of Thrones" was released. In August 1996, a very different Clinton was President of the US, " Macarena" and "Waabe" were the top of the charts, and NASA aounced the discovery of evidence of primitive life on Mars contained within a meteorite. For one thing, "Game of Thrones" was not George R. R. Martin's first book. By the time that book published, he was already a three-time Hugo Award wier (once each for best novella, novelette and short story), an established novelist, and a screenwriter (including writing episodes for the 1985 revival of "The Twilight Zone"). Now, five books and seven HBO seasons later, we all ...

Check out "Broadway Joe" Namath's latest role: virtual host of the newest exhibit inside the Pro Football Hall of Fame.A hologram of the football great introduces "A Game for Life," a 3D display set in a state-of-the-art theater designed to resemble an NFL locker room.Meet "Broadway," um, "Holographic" Joe Namath, host of the newest exhibit, "A Game for Life," at the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio. Pro Football Hall of Fame "It will give the fans goose bumps," Namath, a hall of fame quarterback himself, promised in a recent phone interview. "They will be blown away." The exhibit, which fans see fi...

Sony today released its monthly list of the best-selling PlayStation Store games for July 2016, and for the second month in a row, it was a bit of a weird one.Like in June, the PS4's top five in North America is not compromised of especially recent games. It wasn't a huge month for new releases, but it's still a surprising list: God of War III Remastered took the top spot, with The Last of Us Remastered, Minecraft, and Grand Theft Auto V also topping the charts. The only newer release in the top five was the No. 2 game, 7 Days to Die, which launched at the end of June.With even fewer releases on PS3 and Vita, it's a similar story on those platforms. LittleBigPlanet 3, The Last of Us, and Min...