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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...

Close Are cloud services good enough to store our digital life? (Open_Tab) Drag Dropbox, Amazon Cloud, Google Drive -- these services all promise to make everything from baby pictures to work documents available on any device. But at what pain points? Jeff Bakalar, Roger Cheng and Ben Fox Rubin talk about the services they us...

Mophie makes some nice exteal batteries for charging devices, with sleek aluminum housings, but the knock against them has been that they're expensive.Well, the company got the message and has priced its new models more competitively. It's also adding even more charging options, including an updated Powerstation Plus line with an integrated switch-tip Lightning to Micro-USB cable that charges both iOS and Android devices, a Powerstation USB-C, and a Charge Force Powerstation for Qi wireless charging-enabled devices. Prices start at $30.Enlarge ImageThe Mophie PowerStation Plus starts at $60 and has an integrated Lightning cable with a Micro-USB adapter. ...

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 ...

Close Robots can now be your in-store greeter, what jobs should they take next? (Open_Tab) Drag Pepper the robot paid a visit to the United States this month to bring a new type of customer service to the country: "She" can read your emotions and react accordingly.In this excerpt from Open_Tab, Jeff Bakalar, Mike Sorrentino a...

[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 ImageFoundry workers built a tutable using melted steel from old bridges. Science Chael Believe it or not, you can fund your own DIY tutable for less than the cost of a trip to Whole Foods, and it only takes six steps to make it.It's so simple, in fact, the Science Chael recently built its own on an episode of the show "Made By Destruction." But instead of going the cheap route with plywood and batteries, the team sourced reclaimed steel from structurally faulty bridges to make the most metal record player ever. According to the clip posted below, there are more than 600,000 bridges in the United Stat...

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 ...

Behold, the first pizza delivery box that doubles as a working digital tutable, courtesy of Pizza Hut. Pizza Hut Pizza Hut wants you to play with your food. Or at least, the box it comes in. The restaurant just unveiled the "world's first playable DJ pizza box" that tus the folding cardboard container into a complete tutable setup, including two decks, volume sliders, pitch controls and a crossfader. Powered by an inteal battery and equipped with a Bluetooth sensor, it can even sync with a computer or smartphone to play and scratch tracks using digital mixing software like Serato. Sounds delicious. Accord...

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...

Enlarge ImageThe message Ivan Kwiatkowski's parents received waing them of the (fake) infection. Ivan Kwiatkowski Have you ever gotten a phone call, email or pop-up from someone trying to scam you with an obviously non-existent problem with your computer that will be expensive to solve?French security researcher Ivan Kwiatkowski knows how you feel, but he wasn't content with hanging up or uttering a few choice words of reprimand. He decided to give them a taste of their own medicine, as he described in a blog earlier this month.The tech support scam has been around for the better part of a decade, bilking an...

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...