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Description Stirringly evocative, thought provoking, and often jaw dropping, The Operator ranges across SEAL Team Operator Robert O'Neill's awe-inspiring 400-mission career that included his involvement in attempts to rescue "Lone Survivor" Marcus Luttrell and abducted-by-Somali-pirates Captain Richard Phillips and culminated in those famous three shots that dispatched the world'...

Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that's taken over our lives.An intact Falcon 9. NASA/Getty Images It was just a routine rocket test.However, as the Space X Falcon 9 rocket stood on the launch pad with its Amos-6 satellite, there was an explosion.Video has now emerged of what that explosion looked like.Posted by nonprofit US Launch Report, the video shows a blast of considerable magnitude. A fire started immediately and the top part of the rocket fell to the ground.Then the fire continued the rage, as so many hopes were temporarily bued. As the video of the fire continues, small...

[embedded content] Hurricanes are scary enough at ground level. View them from space and they look almost unreal, like special effects created in a movie studio. NASA released a time-lapse video on Tuesday showing the Inteational Space Station orbiting over three separate hurricanes. They look both massive and frightening from the station's orbital vantage point.In order, the video shows twin hurricanes Lester and Madeline in the Pacific Ocean and then Gaston in the Atlantic Ocean. Both Lester and Madeline pose a potential threat to the Hawaiian Islands. Gaston is kicking across the Atlantic with wind speeds reaching 100 mph (about 160 kph). Les...

Uber has hired Target's chief marketing officer to help the ride-hailing company boost its global brand.Jeff Jones is jumping ship from Target to Uber. Target Jeff Jones will joining the San Francisco-based startup as president of ridesharing, making him responsible for Uber's operations, marketing and customer support globally, Uber CEO Travis Kalanick said in a company blog post Tuesday. Jones succeeds Ryan Graves, Uber's first employee and first CEO, who will remain with the company as its "resident entrepreneur." Jones' focus at Uber will be to "fuse" its marketing efforts with its global operations, Ka...

People play at the Pokemon Go augmented reality game in Lillo, Belgium, a village that harbors rare Pokemon and as been flooded with Pokemon GO hunters since the mobile game launched. Nicolas Maeterlinck/AFP/Getty Images Pokemon Go play has peaked and is already in decline, according to investment adviser Axiom Capital Management.The number of daily active users, downloads, engagement and time spent on the app each day are off their highs from just a month a go and are showing a downward path, according to data, collected by Sensor Tower, SurveyMonkey and Apptopia, which was supplied to Bloomberg by Axiom. ...

[embedded content] If the US presidential race hasn't felt bizarre enough for you, the latest installment of the YouTube series "Bad Lip Reading" offers up unreal yet hilarious moments from the Democratic National Convention.In the video, published Friday, faux voice-overs of Hillary Clinton, Beie Sanders, President Barack Obama, Michelle Obama, Bill Clinton and more rev up the crowd with statements that were never actually made (we don't think). As with all the clips in the series, the video dubs the words as closely as possible to the speaker's mouth movements. Highlights include Chelsea Clinton giving gal-pal shout-outs, Hillary talking about ...

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. ...

Photographer Adam Pretty isn't scared to go to extreme depths to get his shot. At the Olympics, his cameras are, too.The Getty Images photographer is capturing some of the most memorable moments of the Rio Games' swimming competition by using robotic cameras secured to the floor of the Olympic pool. His images provide an intimate view of swimmers as if watching the competitors while lying on our backs. Among Pretty's pics: A photograph of US swimmer Michael Phelps elongating seconds after torpedoing in the water for his signature event, the 200-meter butterfly. The most-decorated athlete in Olympics history added to his haul on Tuesday, wiing the race by four one-hundredths of a second. The ...

Cseh was trying to keep pace with fellow competitors like US swimmer Michael Phelps, the Olympian who has won the most gold medals ever (22 and counting). Phelps won the 200-meter butterfly by just .04 of a second -- the closest margin of victory in history. "He led the whole way, but guys were chasing him right down to the end," said Pretty about Phelps. "One of the best displays of swimming I've ever seen." Let's block ads! بخوانید...

Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that's taken over our lives.Enlarge ImageHe just happened to have a chainsaw handy? CCTV News/YouTube screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET In the aals of ingenuity, this man might have a place.Which doesn't mean it's a good thing.His actions, though, fall into the realm of "who would ever think of doing that?"For here is surveillance footage taken in Changsha City, China and helpfully posted to YouTube. What we see is a man attracted to a bike that is chained to a tree. As the action unfolds, we appreciate that he covets the bike.It's not so easy...

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[embedded content] When beloved graphic novel "Watchmen" was reimagined as a movie directed by Zack Snyder, some irate fans, including "Watchmen" comics creator Alan Moore, criticized the movie's depiction of the troubled superheroes. Leave it to Honest Trailers -- a YouTube series from Screen Junkies that features a classic movie-trailer voice-over but with a narrator who makes fun of films -- to lay down some blunt opinions about the 2009 film. In a video posted Tuesday, Honest Trailers points out that the Watchmen may have looked pretty, but the movie tried way too hard to squeeze in every plotline from the comics. "Stare in awe as Snyder...

Sling Blake Krikorian, the co-founder of Sling Media and a longtime fixture in Silicon Valley, died Wednesday at age 48.His brother, Jason confirmed Krikorian's sudden passing on Facebook. According to Recode's Kara Swisher, he was "apparently struck by a heart attack while surfing in the San Francisco area." Krikorian had recently served as the corporate vice president for Microsoft's Interactive Entertainment Business, following the acquisition of his company, id8 Group R2 Studios, by Redmond in 2013. But he was best known (to me and many others) as one of the visionary founders of Sling Media, which he co...

[embedded content] When a video starts off with a bald Lex Luthor singing in jail, you know you're in for a treat. From the twisted and talented minds of remixers Craven Moorhaus and Zak Koonce, known as Auralnauts, comes the music video "Batman v Superman - Ding Ding (feat. The Flash)." The video, posted on YouTube Wednesday, shows not only a very aoying Lex Luthor (Jesse Eisenberg), but also the ever-so-angry Batman (Ben Affleck) and the equally upset Superman (Henry Cavill). DC Comics characters Aquaman, played by Jason Momoa, and Wonder Woman, played by Gal Gadot, have cameos. But it's the dancing, bearded version of the Flash, rapping an...

Moon Express testing at Keedy Space Center Benjamin Harrison The US govement has approved a private company to land on the moon for the first time.Moon Express disclosed on its website today that it had received the signoff from the Federal Aviation Administration to send an unmaed rover to the lunar surface. If successful, the 2017 mission would allow the company to lay claim to Google's Lunar XPrize, the $20 million bounty the search giant has put up to jumpstart this very sort of private space exploration. (It has already secured $1.25 million in prize money based on its incremental success to date.)For Mo...

Japanese researchers at the University of Tokyo showed off an interesting concept: a case that gives smartphones wheels and enables them to roll around on their own. Forget summoning your car; we want to summon our phones. We're also taking a closer look at SymGym, a machine made for working out while playing video games. It doubles as a game controller, so users end up pulling, pushing and otherwise getting resistance reps while they control a video game. Close ...

Videos by Coldplay, fronted by Chris Martin, are among the first that Vevo will add from its agreement with Waer Music. Tabatha Fireman/Getty Images Online music-video company Vevo said Tuesday is has sealed a license with the last of the three major labels, Waer Music Group, to add selections of Waer's official videos into the Vevo library. It already has videos from the two other majors, Universal Music and Sony Music Entertainment, which together own Vevo. (YouTube's parent Google and outside investor Abu Dhabi Media also hold stakes.)For Vevo, Waer Music checks off a big box as it prepares to launch a sub...

[embedded content] On August 1, 1981 -- 35 years ago today -- a chael launched that was to change music history. Music Television, or MTV, kicked off for the first time at 12:01 a.m., Easte Time, with the now legendary words: "Ladies and gentlemen, rock and roll."Then the opening chords accompanied Trevor Ho of The Buggles singing the first line of "Video Killed the Radio Star."It tued out to be prophetic choice for the chael's first music video. By October 1981, record sales of the artists played on MTV but not radio stations were starting to boom. Radio stores were reporting overall sales rising up to 20 percent, while bands such as Adam and th...

Enlarge ImageWatch some of the best cosplayers in action in this San Diego Comic-Con 2016 video from Sneaky Zebra. Video screenshot by Boie Burton/CNET For some geeky fans who attended San Diego Comic-Con this year, the withdrawal symptoms afterwards can be downright painful. Who wants to sit in a boring office meeting when you'd rather be attending a panel on "The Walking Dead" while dressed as a zombie? The real world is downright dull when you're not dressed up as Superman while eating a plate of nachos. This new video from Sneaky Zebra, posted July 27 on YouTube, showcases the most impressive cosplay co...

Enlarge ImageThis retro adventure game art captures the creepiness of "Stranger Things" perfectly. Jacob Janerka The creepy-yet-endearing Netflix series "Stranger Things" -- which debuted July 15 -- is a kind of throwback to '80s creature features like "Evil Dead" and "Alien" as well as the kid-centric adventure films "The Goonies" and "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial."So when game designer Jacob Janerka decided to celebrate the series with retro video game art, it felt like the perfect choice for an homage. Janerka is currently working on an '80s inspired point-and-click sci-fi adventure game called Paradigm. Bef...