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Description E L James revisits the world of Fifty Shades with a deeper and darker take on the love story that has enthralled millions of listeners around the globe. Their scorching, sensual affair ended in heartbreak and recrimination, but Christian Grey caot get Anastasia Steele out of his mind or his blood. Determined to win her back, he tries to suppress his darkest desires and his need for complete control and to love Ana on her own terms. But the horrors of his childhood still haunt him, and Ana's scheming boss, Jack Hyde, clearly wants her for himself. Can Christian's confidant and therapist, Dr. Fly, help him face down his demons? Or ...

Description In the first book of this brilliant series, Stephen King introduces listeners to one of his most powerful creations: Roland of Gilead, The Last Gunslinger. He is a haunting figure, a loner on a spellbinding jouey into ...

Description Three bodies in a beautiful and luxurious bedroom. Billy Haey was bo to be a cop. The son of Chicago's chief of detectives, whose twin sister is also on the force, Billy plays it by the book. Alongside Detective Kate Fenton, Billy's tempestuous, adrenaline-junkie ...

It's even bigger than it looks. Standing in front of it, my head tilted back -- it's huge. It's sci-fi come to life: an 18-meter/59-foot tall Mobile Suit from the anime series "Gundam." Built initially to celebrate the series' 30th aiversary, the enormous statue has traveled around a bit. It now stands guard in front of the DiverCity mall on the artificial island of Odaiba in Tokyo Bay. It doesn't walk around (sadly), nor can you climb up into it (bummer), but for fans of the anime, or anyone who just digs giant robots, it's pretty cool. Here's how it looks up close. Fundam with Tokyo's giant Gundam ...

Enlarge Image YOSHIKAZU TSUNO/AFP/Getty Images Gundam is big in Japan -- so big, it's spawned video games, manga and even an academic institute. Now, the giant Japanese robots are being brought into VR. One of the geekier tourist attractions of Tokyo is a to-scale, 35 toe, 18-metre tall Gundam statue. Using HTC's Vive virtual reality technology, Gundam fans can now bring this statue to life. Named the "Gundam VR Daiba Assault", the VR experience allows you to be cradled in that Gundam's mechanical hand as it comes to life to battle against its Zeon enemies. Using a mixture of a VR simulation of the area outs...

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The karst rises from the flatland as if escaping the underworld, violently forced up by something down there. The truth is the opposite. The stark, imposing rocks are what's left after millions of years of weathering take their toll on the surrounding land. Towers of stone form the base, literally and figuratively, for the magic of this place. Somehow, impossibly perched atop these majestic peaks, are buildings. Not just a stone hut, but extensive complexes of beige rock and red roofs. They rise up where the stone ends, is if carved. As you marvel at one, you notice another, and then another. A series of these incredible buildings, made without roads, cranes, or even... stairs. ...

[embedded content] Living in Florida during a summer heatwave can be brutal, but the Backyard Scientist is here to help, or at least make it more interesting by building not only a liquid nitrogen squirt gun but also a flamethrower. In his latest video "Liquid Nitrogen Freeze-Ray Vs. Flamethrower" -- posted on YouTube this past week -- the Backyard Scientist has some fun with liquid nitrogen.After filling a stainless-steel thermos with liquid nitrogen, the video maker shows how pressure from the liquid tuing into a gas makes the nitrogen come out the tube, which is attached on the top. The result is an impressive cloud of cold water vapor that c...

It could've been much worse. Enlarge ImageIowa football player Faith Ekakitie, left, was playing Pokemon Go in a park when he was searched at gunpoint by police looking for a bank robber. Matthew Holst, Getty Images A US college football player wrote in a poignant post on Facebook that he feared for his life after being mistaken by police for a suspected bank robber and searched at gunpoint while playing Pokemon Go. University of Iowa defensive end Faith Ekakitie's experience was a top trend Monday. The 290-pound senior was in an Iowa City park last Wednesday playing the immensely popular augmented reality ga...

Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that's taken over our lives.Enlarge ImageDon't study at school, kids. Just go to the NBA. Verizon/YouTube screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET LeBron James knows that physics is boring. I know this because he's the star of a new Verizon ad in which he tells a young, impressionable student that he shouldn't worry about sitting in physics class and watching, oh, LeBron James videos.It's the right thing to do.The marginally overrated NBA star (disclosure: Golden State Warriors fan) is one of several personalities being featured in Verizon's enthusia...

Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that's taken over our lives.Enlarge ImageThe police weren't pleased to see him at all. Essex Police/Twitter screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET It's dangerous to think you're clever.You're not likely to be clever if, for example, you do something dangerous at an airport.But one man at London Stansted Airport seemed to think he was.There he stood with what looked like a gun in his back pocket.The local Essex police weren't pleased to see him.Indeed, in a Twitter post, they presented a picture of the man's rear.They added the caption: "You have a ...

Jaap Arriens/NurPhoto/Getty Images Orlando gunman, Omar Mateen's, Facebook activities were apparently very telling, according to a letter Sen. Ron Johnson, Chair of The Committee on Homeland Security and Govemental Affair, sent to Facebook CES and founder Mark Zuckerberg.The letter requests Facebook provide all data on the gunman's "activities on his account and any affiliated Facebook accounts, including but not limited to activity logs, Facebook timeline information, Facebook messages, photos, and posts."According to the letter, on June 12 the day of the attack, Omar Mateen searched for "Pulse Orlando" and...

Orlando shooter Omar Mateen in a photo he posted to Myspace. CBS News The gunman behind the worst mass shooting in mode US history referenced the terrorist organization ISIS in a Facebook post moments before the massacre, a source close to the investigation told CBS News."You kill iocent women and children by doing us airstrikes..now taste the Islamic state vengeance [sic]," Omar Mateen wrote, according to the source. "In the next few days you will see attacks from the Islamic State [ISIS] in the usa."The post was deleted because it violated Facebook's community standards, a source familiar with the matter to...

Enlarge ImageMasayoshi Son, CEO of SoftBank, which has been working to trim its stakes in other companies. CNET SoftBank said Monday that it agreed to sell off most of its stake in Japanese video game company GungHo for about $685 million. GungHo, best known for its mobile game "Puzzle & Dragons," plans to buy back the shares.SoftBank, a Japanese telecommunications company that's the majority owner of Sprint in the US, has been busy selling off assets recently. It's part of a so-called "transformation strategy," brought on partly by a need to cut down on debt while it works to integrate Sprint into its co...

Brian Rasic, WireImage What would you do if you were the lead singer of Guns N' Roses and some young punks on the Inteet used a photo of you to make fat jokes? Well, Axl Rose thinks the best way to deal is to wipe all traces of the picture off the web, and he's starting with Google.TorrentFreak is reporting that copyright claims were sent to Blogspot and GoogleUserContent on May 31 this year demanding the removal of pictures of the singer. The picture had triggered a wave of "fat memes" with classic zingers such as "Oh, sweet pie o' mine" superimposed on the picture.Interestingly, the copyright for the origi...

Brian Rasic, WireImage What would you do if you were the lead singer of Guns N' Roses and some young punks on the Inteet used a photo of you to make fat jokes? Well, Axl Rose thinks the best way to deal is to wipe all traces of the picture off the web, and he's starting with Google.TorrentFreak is reporting that copyright claims were sent to Blogspot and GoogleUserContent on May 31 this year demanding the removal of pictures of the singer. The picture had triggered a wave of "fat memes" with classic zingers such as "Oh, sweet pie o' mine" superimposed on the picture.Interestingly, the copyright for the origi...