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Description Number one New York Times Best Seller Do you ever suspect that everyone else has life figured out and you don’t have a clue? If so, Rachel Hollis has something to tell you: That’s a lie. ...

Description A novel of suspense, family ties, and twisted passions from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Obsession... The Bodine ranch and resort in weste Montana is a family business, an idyllic spot for vacationers. A little over thirty thousand acres and home to four generations, it's kept ruing by Bodine Longbow with the help of a large staff, including new hire Callen Skier. There was another member of the family once: Bodine's aunt, Alice, who ran off before Bodine was bo. She never retued, and the Longbows don't talk about her much. The younger ones, who never met her, quietly presume she's dead. But she isn't. She is not fa...

Description Charlamagne Tha God - the self-proclaimed "Prince of Pissing People Off", cohost of Power 105.1's The Breakfast Club, and "hip-hop's Howard Ste" - shares his unlikely success story as well as how embracing one's truths is a fundamental key to success and happiness. ...

Want a smarter Alexa, savvier Siri, brainier Google Now or a cleverer Cortana? So do Amazon, Apple, Alphabet and Microsoft -- and each is working to make its voice assistant your personal Einstein of choice. Amazon recently enhanced its efforts by nabbing an AI expert from eBay, The Wall Street Joual reported Friday. Hassan Sawaf is now Amazon's director of artificial intelligence, focusing on "the user experience for users of Amazon's search capability across all products and businesses," according to Sawaf's LinkedIn page. The Joual was one of the first to spot Sawaf's updated responsibilities on LinkedIn. "eBay has wide and deep capabilities in AI across the technology organization, and ...

Enlarge Image Kawasaki If you want to fight crime with an automotive companion, a la Knight Rider, we've got some good news -- Kawasaki is developing a leaing, talking artificial intelligence for its motorcycles.Although in the early stages of development, the new system, named the Kanjo Engine (which translates to Emotion Engine) is expected to provide ride-along companionship and driver status monitoring, all the while being able to understand and respond to natural human speech.Think of it as an on-board Siri, one that leas to adapt to your personal driving style and habits.The AI technology is being develo...

Congratulations to last week's wier, Alan C. of Brighton, Colorado, for wiing season 6 of "Game of Thrones" on digital HD. We here at CNET's San Francisco headquarters are busily packing up in preparation to move for a bit while our digs get a fancy new remodel. In the process, we've uncovered piles and piles of cool stuff (plus WinZip for Windows XP and lots of paper clips). I combed some of the shiny new goods we've collected recently, and the result is this week's prize, our CNET Moving Day Grab Bag packed with fun. Here's just some of what this week's wier will score tucked inside a sturdy padded laptop backpack from CAT.Enlarge Image James ...

[embedded content]Ask not for whom the giant blue screen of death tolls, it tolls for thee.This all-too-nightmare-inducing photo was taken in Pattaya, Thailand, at the CentralFestival Pattaya Beach shopping mall, and shared on Facebook by Blake Sibbitt. Apparently, a problem has been detected, and the mall will be shut down. Or, you know, at least the outdoor signage.But forget reality, it's more fun to picture this five-story version of the infamous Windows system-crash screen as something out of a future "Terminator" movie, when Skynet has taken us over and is about to take the planet down for good. Or maybe out of a "Black Mirror" episode, where a skyscraper's crash is preceded by a skysc...

Close 3 reasons to believe the OnePlus 3 hype Drag Are you looking for a new phone to take back to school, or maybe you're in desperate need of an upgrade? We want to help!CNET wants to give you the opportunity to get your hands on the OnePlus 3, the wier of our June 2016 Editors' Choice award with an overall score of 8.9 and...

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...

Don't like something some stranger is saying about you on Twitter? The social network has a solution.Twitter launched a new feature on Thursday that allows users to limit the notifications they see to only those sent by users they follow. It doesn't prevent strangers from mentioning you; it just insulates users from being exposed to those tweets. The new feature appear to be part of Twitter's attempt to address the chronic abuse and harassment that occurs daily on the social network. However, the move is little more than a band-aid since the offending tweets will still be present on the network; you are just choosing not to see them.Harassing and abusive tweets, while not a new occurrence on...

Close Smuggled phones and a wall of silence: Reporting on Australian detention Drag Smuggled phones and a wall of silence: Reporting on Australian detentionThis is part of our Road Trip 2016 summer series "Life, Disrupted," about how technology is helping with the global refugee crisis -- if at all.I was in the kitchen at my ...

NASA hopes to launch a spacecraft next month that will essentially chest-bump an asteroid and swipe a sample of space rock to bring back to Earth for study in the process. The Osiris-Rex spacecraft is about the size of a small bus when its solar arrays are deployed. Right now, the plan is to launch it from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on an Atlas V 411 rocket as soon as September 8 at 7:05 p.m. ET. It's scheduled to reach the potentially hazardous asteroid Beu at some point in 2018. The craft's epic acronym name stands for Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security - Regolith Explorer, which explains what NASA hopes it will do. Those goals include retuing and anal...

We've lost R2. Actor Key Baker, aka lovable droid R2-D2, in the '70s. Getty Images Key Baker, the man who brought the much-loved R2-D2 droid to life in the Star Wars films, passed away at the age of 81 following a long period of illness. Baker's death was reported by The Guardian on Saturday, with his niece Abigail Shield telling the publication that the news was expected but sad. "He had a very long and fulfilled life. He brought lots of happiness to people and we'll be celebrating the fact that he was loved throughout the world. We're all very proud of what he achieved in his lifetime," Shield said. B...

Congratulations to Bryan H. of Kyle, Texas, for wiing a Fluance RT80 tutable last week. We not only survived Comic-Con Inteational last month, we brought all kinds of cool stuff home too. So if you didn't get to make it to San Diego this year and wished you could've snagged some swag, you're in serious luck. In our swag bag, we've got a "Star Trek: Beyond" portable seat cushion from the movie's premiere that's great for keeping your tush cushioned at outdoor concerts or on long flights in space. Also in this gathering of loot is a pair of cute, wee plushy versions of Ghost, one of the direwolves from "Game of Thrones." It never hurts to have a spare, right? The thing that might just make yo...

RoadshowNewsTrucksCome sail away in Ford's new F-Series STX packageEnlarge Image"You're Fooling Yourself" if you think this truck is for anyone other than a "Blue Collar Man."[groan] Ford I get mad when someone else takes a good idea for a headline. Ford used "STX Appeal" as the headline for its F-Series STX package, which is a decent one -- far better than the Styx joke I came up with. Leave the clever stuff to me, Ford. Where were we? Oh, right, the F-Series STX package.On the F-150, the STX is its own trim level. Most of it is aesthetic -- 20-inch aluminum wheels, a black grille, body-color bumper and fron...

Enlarge ImageThat's one fewer comet in the universe. ESA/NASA/SOHO/Joy Ng So-called sungrazer comets are the daredevils of the cosmos attempting, like Icarus or Queen Margaery Tyrell, to fly high and tight by the sun without getting bued. This week, ESA and NASA's Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) caught a sungrazer that flew a little too close.The above animated GIF comes from SOHO's Large Angle Spectrometric Coronagraph, which takes images of the solar corona by blocking direct light from the sun. Where the actual disc of the sun would be in the video is represented by a white circle. Between August...

Enlarge Image Fluance Editors' note: This giveaway has a Twitter component, so please read the below rules carefully. We've tued off comments on this post to avoid confusion as to how to enter the contest. Congratulations to Jesse L. of San Diego for wiing a Sony HT-XT1 pedestal sound bar last week. Been looking for a reason to dust off your parents' old record collection? Then tune in. Today we're giving away the Fluance RT80, a high-fidelity belt-drive tutable. The RT80 came out in June, after online direct-to-consumer Canadian audio company Fluance secured funding for it on Kickstarter. The prod...

Enlarge ImageLG will show off its first Android 7.0 Nougat phone in another month. LG Electronics LG will reveal in September what could be the first phone to sport the new Android 7.0 operating system known as Nougat. In a blog post dubbed "Play More," the company revealed that it will unveil its V20 phone on September 6 in San Francisco. The blog post's tagline of "The second story begins" could refer to the V20 being the follow-up to LG's V10 phone, which rolled out last October, or to the G5, which launched this past April. LG faces the same challenges that impede other smartphone players, including HTC...

The US Constitution is hot.The document, which tus 229 years old next month, has become an Amazon best-seller after the father of a Muslim soldier killed in Iraq pulled out a miniature copy at the Democratic National Convention last week to criticize Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump."Donald Trump, you're asking Americans to trust you with their future. Let me ask you, have you even read the United States Constitution?" he asked, shaking the pocket edition in the air. "I will gladly lend you my copy." Since then, a $1 pocket edition of the document has climbed the inteet retailer's best-seller list, coming in second only to "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child."However, the edition ...

Congratulations to Mark K. of Ashbu, Virginia, for wiing a Piper DIY computer kit for kids last week, and to Jaque R. of Phoenix for wiing five films on Blu-ray the week before that. This week's wier gets a Sony HT-XT1, a slim pedestal sound bar you place under your TV to boost the sound from your set's built-in speakers. The gadget includes three HDMI inputs and built-in Bluetooth with NFC support. It's easy to hook up and simple to operate, and it plays loud without distorting, says our CNET reviewer Ty Pendlebury. "Sony's HT-XT1 sound stand is packed with features, looks sleek, and sounds great, making it a no-brainer upgrade over your TV's built-in speakers," he writes. It's designed ...