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Description From stand-up comedian and actress Tiffany Haddish comes The Last Black Unico, a hilarious, edgy, and heart-wrenching collection of autobiographical essays that will leave you laughing through tears. Tiffany Haddish grew up in one of the poorest parts of South Central Los Angeles. Her mother wound up with a debilitating brain injury after surviving a car accident. Tiffany never fit in anywhere: not in the households she rotated through in the foster care system and certainly not at the nearly all white high school she had to ride the bus an hour to attend. As an illiterate ninth grader, Tiffany did everything she could to survive. A...

Description A set textbook at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry since publication, Newt Scamander's masterpiece has entertained wizarding families through the generations. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them is an indispensable introduction to the magical beasts of the...

Final Fantasy XV director Hajime Tabata has spoken up again to talk about why it was decided that the long-awaited and much-anticipated game be delayed from September to November.Speaking with Famitsu, as translated by and reported on by Kotaku, Tabata started off by stating that "the optimization isn't [yet] sufficient." There are "various bugs" throughout the game, while frame rate is not holding to its 30 FPS target as well as Square Enix would like.Some of Final Fantasy XV's bugs won't keep players from advancing (a lot of games have bugs like this), but there are others that Tabata hopes can be fixed before release. "There are still of number of bugs like characters floating uaturally i...

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[embedded content] If you miss seeing the adventures of Capt. Mal, Jayne, Kaylee, River, Simon, Wash, Zoe and Inara on Joss Whedon's beloved TV series "Firefly," then sit back and watch this beautifully animated trailer by artist Stephen Bye. The short clip "The Animated Adventures of Firefly Teaser"shows the Serenity in action, Jayne shooting his favorite weapon, Zoe and Wash in love and monsters lurking in dark coers. For fans who want to see how this video was made, Bye posted a production video way back in 2014. The video already has 115,788 views, but more importantly it also has the approval of the "Firefly" actors Adam Baldwin, who made it...

Following several reports that the release of upcoming role-playing game Final Fantasy XV has been delayed, Square Enix has confirmed a new launch date for the game. Final Fantasy XV will be released globally on November 29--nearly two months later than its previously scheduled September 30 launch date.According to a statement released by Square Enix, the new date "will allow the development teams time to further polish and conduct quality testing so that the reality of the game can match the expectations of both the fans and the creative teams."Game director Hajime Tabata said: "From the moment we joined this project, our vision was to create a level of freedom and realism previously unseen...

Enlarge ImageArvind Krishna, a senior vice president at IBM Research Stephen Shankland/CNET Bitcoin has a bad rap as the preferred currency of drug dealers. But that isn't stopping IBM and some of the world's most conservative businesses from tapping into its technological underpiings. Specifically, Big Blue is interested in the blockchain -- the mechanism Bitcoin uses to publicly record transactions. Today's businesses each have their own records, slowing transactions and triggering problems figuring out who's right when there are disagreements. But the blockchain approach is more cooperative by providing ...

[embedded content] There are many fan-made Pokemon projects out there, but none were slaved over for nearly a decade.Pokemon Uranium, which took developrs JV and Involuntary Twitch nine years to make -- was released this week.The game is set in a new region, Tandor, and its developers designed and animated over 150 new, unofficial Pokemon. These include a new type not found in the actual Pokemon games, the Nuclear type.It appears to be developed on Gameboy Advance architecture, resembling the graphics in 2004's Pokemon Fire Red and Leaf Green games. The release is timely, with Pokemon Go putting the franchise back on the map over the last month o...

Enlarge ImageDax and Sisko rock original-series uniforms in "Trials and Tribble-ations." Screenshot by Amanda Kooser/CNET On Friday, the Star Trek 50th aiversary convention in Las Vegas came alive with passionate debate as Star Trek fans bantered their way through a debate on the worst episodes Trek ever committed to film. There's another side to that equation. Star Trek is also full of episodes that stand among the best in television. As tight as the race was for worst episode, the competition for the finest is even tougher.I have my personal favorites. "City on the Edge of Forever" from the original series ...

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...

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 finally game on for daily fantasy sports in New York.DraftKings and FanDuel will be able to operate legally in the Empire State after Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Wednesday signed into law a bill legalizing daily fantasy sports websites. Cuomo's signature ends a contentious nine months for the sites that began in November when New York Attoey General Eric Schneiderman issued cease-and-desist letters to the companies."Daily fantasy sports have proven to be popular in New York but until now have operated with no supervision and no protections for players," Cuomo said in a statement. "This legislation strikes the right balance that allows this activity to continue with oversight from state regulat...

If you've got $90,000, you can own the site publishing some of the best Harry Potter/2016 US presidential election mashup fan fiction around. Just when it seems as if this election cycle couldn't possibly get any more strange, leave it to domain squatters to inject a little extra serving of the absurd. Last Friday, Hillary Clinton aounced her pick of Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine as her ruing mate. The introduction of the potential next vice president was made on Twitter and then in person Saturday, and by Wednesday Kaine formally accepted the nomination for veep at the Democratic convention in Philadelphia.The rollout went quite smoothly except for one detail: anyone who visits the website at Cli...

Enlarge Image Thanko Sunshine is great, but let's face it -- summer can be the pits. And if you want to protect your pits from summer, a Japanese company has a quirky solution.The Thanko Electric Armpit Clip-on Cooler Fan is a 30-gram clip-on fan that attaches itself to the front buttons or the short-sleeve of a shirt, blowing cool air to the body's more perspiration-prone areas. Ruing on AAA batteries, it lasts between 5 and 9 hours, long enough for a fairly serious summer pilgrimage. It can also be charged up using a USB-based power bank.It's not the first fan-related apparel to come out of Japan. 2007 brou...

There was a resurgence of Poképride at this year's SDCC thanks to the worldwide phenomenon that is Pokemon Go....

[embedded content] I'm with Dan Fogle on this one: I want to be a wizard.At Comic-Con on Saturday, Waer Bros. continued its trailer drops with the latest for "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them." After Newt Scamander (played by Academy Award wier Eddie Redmayne) enters the US with a luggage full of dangerous animals, well, obviously things go awry. As Porpentina Goldstein (Katherine Waterston) helps him, he meets No-Maj (that's American for Muggle) Jacob Kowalski, played by Fogle, and changes his worldview. In the trailer we also get a longer look at Colin Farrell, who plays Percival Graves, a wizard and right-hand man of the Magical Congres...

[embedded content] Filming wrapped this month for "Star Wars: Episode VIII," but fans are still eagerly awaiting the first official trailer for the sequel to "The Force Awakens." YouTube user Alex Luthor has a little something to tide you over in the meantime with a heart-pounding fan-made trailer for the film, which isn't due in theaters until late 2017.Luthor combined footage from a variety of sources, including "The Force Awakens," as well as some other fan films. There's no need for a booming Hollywood voice-over here. Snippets of Star Wars film dialogue keep the trailer moving. There's an especially exciting moment when a blue lightsaber bla...

Square Enix Square Enix, creator of the venerable Final Fantasy video game series, has launched a teaser website for a new role-playing game that will launch not on a powerful next-gen console, but on the humble Apple Watch.The website calls the game Cosmos Rings, and simply states it's coming soon. It's safe to assume that the specific mention of "Apple Watch", rather than "smartwatches" means that this won't be a game for Android Wear devices.It's not known what form the game will take, with only the small teaser image to go on, and that may not be representative of final gameplay. The watch's small screen...

Enlarge ImageProfessor Fasworth in all his wrinkly glory. Video screenshot by Amanda Kooser/CNET Any trailer that rates itself "Q" for "Questionable" is onto something. The faux rating screen for the "Fan-o-rama" trailer reads, "Audiences will no doubt question the creator's motives, self-respect, and sanity." You will definitely have some questions after viewing the video, the most likely being "What did I just see?" "Fan-o-rama" is a lovingly bizarre live-action interpretation of the sci-fi animated cult favorite TV series "Futurama." "Fan-o-rama" comes from the Cinema Relics team, which lists "food poiso...

Twitter is hoping to bring more basketball fans to its court through a partnership with the National Basketball Association for exclusive live programming.The league and social network are teaming up to live-stream a new weekly NBA pregame show that will be delivered exclusively to Twitter users, the pair said Tuesday. The show will feature elements designed to stimulate and integrate with users' conversation on Twitter."We're excited about bringing live content to Twitter, which has proven to be an ideal destination for real-time sports conversations," NBA Commissioner Adam Silver said in a statement. "We've seen technology bring fans closer to our game, teams and players in ways we could h...