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Description From Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen comes the next hit audiobook thriller, an instant New York Times bestseller! When you listen to this audiobook, you will make many assumptions. You will assume you are listening to a story about a jealous ex-wife. You will assume she is obsessed with her replacement - a beautiful, younger woman who is about to marry the man they both love. You will assume you know the anatomy of this tangled love triangle. Assume nothing. Twisted and deliciously chilling, The Wife Between Us exposes the secret complexities of an enviable marriage - and the dangerous truths we ignore i...

Description From Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen comes the next hit audiobook thriller When you listen to this audiobook, you will make many assumptions. You will assume you are listening to a story about a jealous ex-wife. You will assume she is obsessed with her replacement - a beautiful, younger woman who is about to marry the man they both love. You will assume you know the anatomy of this tangled love triangle. Assume nothing. Twisted and deliciously chilling, The Wife Between Us exposes the secret complexities of an enviable marriage - and the dangerous truths we ignore in the name of love. Listen for the...

Description The Grinch, whose heart is two sizes too small, hates Who-ville's holiday celebrations, and plans to steal all the presents to prevent Christmas from coming. To his amazement, Christmas comes anyway, and the Grinch discovers the true meaning of the holiday. ...

Description Paulo Coelho's enchanting novel has inspired a devoted following around the world. This story, dazzling in its simplicity and wisdom, is about an Andalusian shepherd boy named Santiago who travels from his homeland in Spain to the Egyptian desert in search of treasure buried in the Pyramids. Along the way he meets a Gypsy woman, a man who calls himself king, and an Alchemist, all of whom point Santiago in the direction of his quest. No one knows what the treasure is, or if Santiago will be able to surmount the obstacles along the way But what starts out as a jouey to find worldly goods tus into a meditation on the treasures found w...

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...

RoadshowNewsCar IndustryMichigan could soon legalize fully driverless carsEnlarge ImageGoogle and other companies have a number of autonomous vehicles on public roads already, but by law, they must include a driver ready to take control. Google Without a national framework, some states like Califoia and Michigan have taken the lead and drafted up regulations for testing autonomous vehicles on public roads, albeit with drivers standing by in the front seat. But Michigan's about to take it one step further and address a bill that could allow cars without drivers on public roads.The state Senate's Economic Develo...

[embedded content] When drinking your favorite soda, do you ever wonder if it's slowly rotting away your teeth? A young scientist who goes by the name of Chase took over YouTuber Tom Scott's chael to find out once and for all which soda does the most dental damage -- Coca-Cola or Mountain Dew.In the video, posted on Monday, the young scientist dropped two molars (his sister's) into bottles of Mountain Dew and Coca-Cola soda and waited for almost three weeks to see what would happen. Keep in mind that the Mountain Dew has a pH of 3.1, while Coca-Cola has a pH of 2.5 -- making it six times more acidic than Mountain Dew. Two weeks and five days late...

Apple is expanding the capacity of its iCloud Drive storage service. CNET Apple has doubled the maximum amount of data users can store on iCloud Drive, now offering 2 terabytes to customers of its online storage service.Apple's new storage capacity will run customers $19.99 per month, twice the $9.99 monthly cost of its previous 1TB storage max. Consumers still have the option of getting 5GBs of storage for free. The company also offers a 50GB plan for 99 cents per month, and a 200GB option for $3.99.The higher capacity is expected to benefit those with large iCloud Photo Libraries and for the new macOS Sierra...

Alphabet executive David Drummond has left Uber's board over conflict of interest conces. Alphabet The race to put autonomous vehicles on the road has apparently cost one Alphabet executive his seat on Uber's board of directors.David Drummond, Alphabet's senior vice president of corporate development, resigned from the ride-hailing startup's board several weeks ago amid rising conces over conflict of interests. Drummond, who had been on Uber's board since 2013, helped oversee Google's $250 million venture-capital investment in Uber that same year.Drummond confirmed his departure from Uber's board in an stateme...

Enlarge ImageTrendForce expects most PCs will come with SSDs, not hard drives, in 2018. TrendForce They've been a fixture of the computing industry for 60 years, but in 2018, hard drives will be pushed aside by storage systems using memory chips in PCs, an analyst firm predicts.Hard drives revolutionized computing when IBM commercialized the first, RAMAC, in 1956. They read and write ones and zeros as tiny patches of magnetic information on rotating platters. But they don't fit well in phones, thumb drives and camera memory cards, which use a type of memory chips called flash instead. PCs with hard drives rema...

[embedded content] If you like cowboy hats with your robots, you're probably excited about HBO's new "Westworld" series. HBO released a fresh trailer on Sunday, so brush off your Stetson and get ready for some mechanical people with shotguns and spurs. HBO released a teaser in June, but the new trailer takes a longer, deeper dive into the upcoming series.Michael Crichton, creator of "Jurassic Park," wrote and directed the original 1973 film version of "Westworld." The basic premise is all about what can go wrong in a Weste-themed amusement park populated by robots. Since this is on HBO, we can expect a grittier, more "Game of Thrones"-like vision...

[embedded content] Fans who love to dress up as their favorite film, TV, comic book and video game characters don't just reside in the United States. Our Easte European friends reminded us of this at Starcon in St. Petersburg, Russia, where cosplayers doed their DIY costumes and strutted their stuff. In two videos, Starcon Старкон 2016 Russian Cosplay Part 1 and Part 2, posted on August 25 by YouTube chael Beatdownboogie, fans are seen dressed in highly detailed costumes as Captain Kirk, Hulk Hogan, Chewbacca, Link, Poison Ivy, Spider-Man, Iron Man, Batgirl, Ahsoka Tano, Darth Maul, Deadpool, Jon Snow and even Godzilla himself, just to name a fe...

Everyone loves to hear Kanye West say crazy things (admit it), and usually he reserves his craziest outbursts for the MTV Video Music Awards. He gave a six-minute speech at tonight's VMAs, but that's not what social media was buzzing about afterwards. Instead, the birds were tweeting about Drake and Rihaa. Presenting the Video Vanguard award (MTV's lifetime achievement honour) to Rihaa, Drake declared that he's been "in love" with the singer since he was "22 years old." The two then shared a hug -- some say it was sweet, others say it was awkward. You decide: And while many tweeted about how the two would make a perfect couple...

The Roku 4 is the company's current high-end streaming box. Sarah Tew/CNET Hoping for a Roku 5 to succeed the Roku 4? You may be disappointed by this report.According to ZatzNotFuy.com's correlation of an FCC leak against a Canadian computer sales website published Saturday, the streaming company could be debuting up to five streaming devices this fall that would add HDR picture capabilities and give each of the streamers a name instead of a number.The entry-level Roku 1 would be instead replaced by the Roku Express and Roku Express Plus, both the Roku 2 and Roku 3 would be replaced by the Roku Premiere and Ro...

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...

Your airline will soon be able to tell you when your flight is delayed via WhatsApp. WhatsApp WhatsApp users, get ready for messages from companies looking for your business.That's the upshot from Thursday's update to WhatsApp's terms and conditions. The company outlined in a blog post the kind of interactions it wants to enable, including being notified by your bank about a potentially fraudulent transaction or being waed about a delayed flight. These are things we might currently be informed about by a text message or phone call. WhatsApp hopes to enable these notifications too, all while keeping spam and th...

RoadshowNewsSelf-driving taxis hit SingaporeMove over Uber, the newest transport disruptor is here. On a trial basis, at least. Starting on Thursday, some residents of Singapore will be able to take taxi rides in self-driving cars. It's brought to the Asian nation by US-based nuTonomy. The Renault Zoe and Mitsubishi i-Miev taxis will be hailed using an invite-only app. Perhaps to help give peace of mind to all customers, a nuTonomy engineer will be in each car to make sure the ride is smooth and to take manual control if need be. It's a limited trial, though. These autonomous taxis, while free, will only commute through Singapore's one-north business district.The startup, which in May recei...

Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that's taken over our lives.Enlarge ImagePokemon Go was released in Japan on July 22. Tomohiro Ohsumi, Getty Images Perhaps it was always going to happen somewhere, sometime.In Tokushima, Japan a truck driver was allegedly playing Pokemon Go at the wheel on Tuesday evening. Reuters reports that his truck plowed into two women who were crossing the road, killing one and injuring the other.The driver reportedly admitted to the police that he'd been playing the game.He is a 39-year-old farmer, according to CNN. It said that the women, in her 70s, d...

Close Galaxy Note 7 vs. S7 Edge drop test Drag The Galaxy Note 7 had an eye-catching Super AMOLED screen with subtle curves on either side. But after seeing so many Galaxy S7 Edge phones fall and crack on the edge, we've leaed this much beauty usually comes at a price.Can a tougher glass and a smaller curve toughen up the Not...

Enlarge Image Google 2016 was a big year for VR, and it's about to get bigger. Google will be launching its Daydream VR platform in a matter of weeks, Bloomberg reports. Alphabet, Google's parent company, is said to be investing big money on content for the platform. Much of this is going toward development of video games and apps, licensing sports leagues and shooting 360-degree videos, many of which include YouTube stars, according to the publication. Daydream is being built into the Android 7.0 Nougat operating system, which launched this week. It said back in May that Samsung, HTC, ZTE, Huawei, Xiaomi, Alc...