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Publisher Description The predator becomes the prey in J. D. Robb's Vendetta in Death, the newest thriller in the #1 New York Times bestselling series featuring homicide ...

Everyone can be an Imperial Death Trooper with this electronic voice changing mask. Hasbro Prank calls will never be the same again when you can impersonate an intimidating Imperial Death Trooper from "Rogue One: A Star Wars Story."This electronic mask changes your voice when you push a button, so you can pretend to go to battle -- or just order a pizza -- as a Death Trooper. The mask requires three 1.5-volt AA batteries, which are included.Death troopers are considered to be the elite variant of the Galactic Empire's Stormtrooper forces and part of the Empire's Military Intelligence. They are easily recogniz...

Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that's taken over our lives.Enlarge ImageWhere on the dashboard is its moral compass? KAREN BLEIER/AFP/GettyImages I think of morality as a feather that shifts in the wind and occasionally brushes your face delightfully as it falls to earth.I'm still perturbed, however, whether technology has a fine grasp of it. Or whether it can.I'm moved by the news that Uber has launched its driverless vehicles in Pittsburgh. It crossed my mind whether these cars have already been programmed whom to kill if they face a moral dilemma.For example, the car is abo...

[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...

Some fans are still holding out hope that Syrio (Miltos Yerolemou) will retu to "Game of Thrones." HBO The "Game of Thrones" season finale satisfied many fans by apparently confirming the Jon Snow parenting theory (R+L=J). That's nice and all, but the show ignored completely my favorite hope -- that Arya's sword-fighting teacher, the brave and eteally quotable Syrio Forel, somehow still lives.OK, he probably doesn't. When last we saw him, he was battling Meryn Trant with nothing but a broken wooden sword. And although sharp-eyed fans hoped this curly-headed shape seen in a recent episode was Syrio, the show e...

This week brought horrifying realities to life in your newsfeed. Wednesday evening, when Philando Castile was fatally shot by a Miesota police officer during a traffic stop, girlfriend Diamond Reynolds streamed the aftermath on Facebook Live, the network's live-broadcasting product launched widely this year. The 10-minute video put the viewer inside the car with Castile, Reynolds and her four-year-old daughter, witnessing the bloodied Castile slump over in his seat, watching his breathing slow, and hearing the young girl assuage her handcuffed mother's distress after she vented a scream in the back of a police cruiser. A Facebook Live broadcast captured a scene of deadly viol...

Enlarge ImageUse the toaster, Luke. The Fowndry The Death Star toaster is a curious thing. It's obviously modeled after Darth Vader's deadly ride, but its form is restricted by the requirements of being a toaster, so it's a truncated version of the usual Death Star sphere. No matter. Your Star Wars fandom allows some leeway when it comes to product design. What's important here is that you will wake up in the moing, stumble groggily into the kitchen, flip the switch on your coffee maker, catch sight of your planet-destroying toaster and start merrily humming the Imperial March. The toaster sears the classic S...

Enlarge ImageSansa Stark has been through a lot. HBO Caution: so many spoilers ahead.Until Sunday night's "Battle of the Bastards" episode of "Game of Thrones," whiny boy-king Joffrey Baratheon's blubbering death by poison was the most satisfying departure on the series. Then someone let the dogs out. Monday, the social-media world seems downright celebratory about the timely death of Ramsay Bolton. The main story arc follows Stark bastard Jon Snow as his army faces off against bastard Ramsay Bolton and his icky flayed-man baers in a fight to regain the Stark home of Winterfell. You can nearly smell the s...