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Description The founder and CEO of Oit, the mega lifestyle brand and one of the fastest growing companies in the country, teaches us how one single day of positive choices leads to a lifetime of concrete strategies for better living, optimal performance, and a stronger mind, body, and s...

Description "The murderer is with us - on the train now..." Just after midnight, the famous Orient Express is stopped in its tracks by a snowdrift. By moing, the millionaire Samuel Edward Ratchett lies dead in his compartment, stabbed a dozen times, his door locked from the inside. One of his fellow passengers must be the murderer. Isolated by the storm, detective Hercule Poirot must find the killer among a dozen of the dead man's enemies, before the murderer decides to strike again.... Customer Reviews Really Enjoyable! by Kamory531 ...

Description The NBC joualist who covered - and took fire from - Donald Trump on the campaign trail offers an inside look at the most shocking presidential election in American history. Katy Tur was one of a select cadre of NBC reporters on the road during the grueling 2016 presidential campaign, reporting from small towns a...

Description In the New York Times best-selling series' latest installment, Mitch Rapp finds himself alone and targeted by a country that is supposed to be one of America's closest allies. After 9/11, the United States made one of the most secretive and dangerous deals in its history. The evidence against the powerful Saudis w...

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'...

Enlarge ImageDead dinosaurs tell no tales, but their tails live on. ASOS Open the door, get on the floor. Everybody walk (like) a dinosaur! The 1988 song by Was (Not Was) can come true for you this Halloween -- or really, any random day -- with a strap-on dinosaur tail.The tails are in the inventory of British retailer ASOS, and the $40 dinosaur tail (£30, AU$53) comes in green and black, though only the green seems to be in stock. If you prefer a cuddlier costume accessory, the site sells cat, fox, wolf and leopard tails, all ranging from $19.34-$40.Maker Tell Tails.com notes that the green tail is from a (fi...

Fitbit did not misappropriate Jawbone's trade secrets, a US trade court judge finds. Dave Cheng/CNET Wearable-device maker Fitbit did not steal trade secrets from rival Jawbone, a judge for the US Inteational Trade Commission ruled on Tuesday.Judge Dee Lord, who issued the ruling, concluded that no violation of the Tariff Act occurred because "no party has been shown to have misappropriated any trade secret," according to Reuters. Had a violation of the act been identified, Fitbit could have been prohibited from importing its products and components into the US.The two wearable-tech companies have in the past ...

Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that's taken over our lives.Enlarge ImageIt takes just one call to make Siri get it right. Apparently. Barbra Streisand/VEVO screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET Let me tell you about pain.Actually, let Barbra Streisand tell you. The renowned singer and occasional actor gave an interview to NPR that was aired on Saturday.In a surely unrehearsed moment, interviewer Scott Simon asked her about Siri. Streisand revealed the extreme distress Apple's personal assistant had caused her."She pronounces my name wrong," she said. Indeed, her second "s" come...

Apple's Tim Cook tells The Washington Post about the "lonely" job of CEO. The Washingont Post/Screenshot by CNET For those of you who hold onto every word Tim Cook says, The Washington Post has about 10,000 to offer.Apple's CEO sat down with the Post for what it termed two "sprawling and highly self-reflective interviews" published Saturday that hit on topics ranging from losing and succeeding the late Steve Jobs, the company's recent fight with the FBI and who he tus to for advice.The Post prefaces the interview with a nice summary of what it covers. But we've also put together a few highlights:Mistakes: Aft...

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Enlarge ImageAn illustration of Uraniborg.The Tycho Brahe MuseumThe island of Hven between Sweden and Denmark is just 7.5 square kilometres (2.9 square miles), hosting a population of less than 400 people. But in the late 16th century, it was one of the world's premiere destinations for scientists and philosophers.This is because Hven was the site of the most advanced research institution the world had seen to date. On August 8, 1576 -- 440 years ago today -- Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe laid the coerstone for Uraniborg, his astronomical observatory and alchemy laboratory.The facility started with a bribe. Brahe had been working under the patronage of King Frederick II of Denmark, and had t...

Tommy Chong has all your pot and emoji needs covered. Neil Visel Tommy Chong's business has always been weed. Now he's hoping it'll grow like one too.You might remember the 78-year-old counterculture icon as the bearded half of the stoner comedy duo Cheech and Chong. In his decades-long career, he's become synonymous with caabis. In the best of times, he was accepting a Best Comedy Album Grammy for the pair's 1973 album "Los Cochinos." In the worst of times, he was jailed for sending bongs across state lines.Today things are different. Tommy Chong is a lifestyle brand. His company Chong's Choice puts its stam...

Enlarge ImageDaniel Chao, CEO of Halo Neuroscience, holds the Halo Sport headphones. Josh Miller/CNET Olympic sprinter Mike Rodgers is hoping a pair of high-end headphones will help him win gold.He and a handful of other US track stars have been training with Halo Sport headphones, which shoot electrical impulses into their brains to sharpen focus. That focus, he says, might be enough to give him the slightest of edges -- a millisecond or so -- at the Summer Games, which open in Rio de Janeiro on Friday. "I like what it's doing to my body right now," Rodgers said of the shiny black headset. Rodgers, a member...

Enlarge ImageStudying my Starfleet Technical Manual. Amanda Kooser/CNET After spending my childhood dreaming of joining Starfleet and my adulthood of roaming the universe with Captains Kirk, Picard, Janeway, Sisko and Archer, I finally got command of my own ship. I now have an original-series captain's uniform. It's part replica, part cosplay, and I feel like I could roam the halls of the Enterprise when I'm wearing it. Instead, I'll be prowling the Star Trek 50th aiversary convention in Las Vegas this week for CNET, just the nudge I needed to finally complete my costume. This is the story of how it all...

RoadshowNewsCar IndustryGoogle's monthly autonomy report: Mostly quiet on the weste front Close AutoComplete: BMW gets the green light for 2017 diesel models Drag Enlarge ImageMaybe folks keep hitting these cars because they get distracted trying to figure out what the hell it is. Goog...

What did you do on your summer vacation? I went to the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia. All right, so it wasn't exactly a vacation. I live in a nearby suburb of Philadelphia and I was working 14 hours a day throughout the week, getting home well past midnight each evening. But for a reporter who's covered technology for more than a decade and a half, getting to experience the media circus of a national political convention was a thrill. Add in Hillary Clinton becoming the first female to win a major political party's nomination for US president, and this history nerd couldn't have been happier on only four hours of sleep a night. So what was it like to at...

Enlarge ImageThe ST-70, fully dressed. James Martin/CNET News I never met Peter, but I think of him every time I listen to Ligeti's "Atmosphères." Last year, Peter's daughter, a longtime friend, gave me his Dynakit ST-70 after she found the amplifier in her garage. Music was Peter's passion and his collection of audio equipment, carefully assembled over the years, reflected that love. The ST-70 was one of his prized possessions. If you're an audiophile, you know the ST-70. It's a classic and considered the last of the great American tube amplifiers, the one that challenged a rising tide of solid-state equip...

Sony has aounced Driveclub VR will be available for the launch of its PlayStation VR headset in Japan. Although further details aren't available in English as of yet, a post on the Japanese PlayStation Blog states there will be a cockpit view and realistic 3D audio.Paul Rustchynsky, Driveclub's former director, confirmed on Twitter that there "is a collection of brand new tracks," for the PlayStation VR version. He did not provide any further details.Earlier this year, Driveclub developer Evolution Studios was closed by its parent company Sony. This was part of a wider restructure to Sony's European studios. Codemasters, the developer of the Dirt, Grid, and F1 series of racing games, later h...

Enlarge ImageMy handwriting, circa 1994. Gael Fashingbauer Cooper/CNET I used to have beautiful handwriting. Growing up in the '70s and '80s, when it was assumed writing in cursive was a necessary skill, I actually practiced my letters, trying out different capital "Gs" and inventing fancy swirls to go under my signature. If I ever needed to leave a mysterious letter in an old diary (I loved Nancy Drew, OK?), I was going to be ready. But now, when I take notes for an interview, or just try to write a note for my daughter's second-grade teacher, I stare at the resulting chicken scratch with the horror of so...

President Barack Obama and presidential candidate Hillary Clinton on stage at the DNC. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Democrats lined up their heaviest hitters Wednesday as President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, VP candidate Tim Kaine and former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg took tus at the podium to support Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton and express disdain for Donald Trump, her Republican rival. If reaction on Twitter is any indication, they hit it out of the park. Twitter, Facebook and other social media networks have changed the way the public discusses politics, much the wa...