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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 The highly anticipated memoir from Gucci Mane, "one of hip-hop's most prolific and admired artists" (New York Times). For the first time, Gucci Mane tells his story in his own words. It is the captivating life of an artist who forged an unlikely path to stardom and personal rebirth. Gucci Mane began writing his me...

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...

[embedded content] When making a grand romantic gesture, most of us opt for expensive chocolate or a candlelit dier for two. When couple Angela Nikolau and Ivan Beerkus wanted to show off their affections for each other, they decided to climb one of the world's highest construction sites in Tianjin, China. At 1,957 feet (597 meters), Goldin Finance 117 -- also known as China 117 Tower -- will be one of the world's tallest buildings when completed. Hotel search site Travel Ticker posted a YouTube video on Monday of first-person footage shot by the couple as they scaled a crane on top of the skyscraper one death-defying step at a time. While...

Enlarge Image Marvel Natalie Portman's Jane Foster was conspicuous by her absence in 2015's "Avengers 2: Age of Ultron", and it looks as though that was a sign of things to come."As far as I know, I'm done [with the Marvel Cinematic Universe]," she told The Wall Street Joual. "I don't know if maybe one day they'll ask for an 'Avengers 7' or whatever, I have no idea. But as far as I know, I'm done. But it was a great thing to be a part of," said the actress, who played Thor's love interest.The question was raised due to Portman's not taking part in "Thor: Ragnarok", the third fim in the Thor series, which is c...

Enlarge ImageOne of the patients trains in the virtual reality environment. Duke University We've only just begun to tap the potential of virtual reality and brain-machine interfaces, but already they're making waves in some unexpected areas. One of those is physical rehabilitation -- treating people with injury-related paraplegia.We've seen a few examples of them being used, such as the paralysed man who used VR and electroencephalography to walk on his own legs without the use of an exoskeleton. Now, researchers from Duke University, led by neuroscientist Miguel Nicolelis, have achieved success with eight p...

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This grape rides a spider in Google's latest Doodle for its Fruit Games event. Google Grape is getting its game on for Google on Sunday.As part of the search giant's third day of the 2016 Doodle Fruit Games, the delicious berry is showing off its show jumping prowess in an interactive game added to the Google app on iOS and Android. The game can be accessed by tapping the doodle inside the app.The game features a grape riding on the back of his trusty steed Spider as the pair leap over hurdles. Google says the bite-sized treat and its eight-legged friend have been inseparable since they landed in the same cra...

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...

[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...

There is a new GPU king. Just weeks after the global rollout of its GTX 1070 and 1080 graphics cards, US chipmaker Nvidia has unveiled another product in its already breakneck 2015-2016 release cycle. Called the Titan X, it looks to be the most powerful graphics card that Nvidia has ever made. As the name suggests, the card is the new model in Nvidia's top-end Titan series. The Titan X, which sells for an eye-watering $1,200 (that converts roughly to AU$1,600 or £1,200), is based on Nvidia's Pascal architecture, boasts 12GB of GDDR5X memory and will have 3,584 of Nvidia's specialist "CUDA" cores. The GTX 1080, by comparison, has 8GB of memory and 2,560 CUDA cores. The new Titan X will ...

If you live in a landlocked city or state, you may never have been required to defend your al fresco lunch from a pack of hungry and determined seagulls. But it's enough of a problem in some areas of Australia, apparently, that technology has come to the rescue.Hungry Jack's, the company that franchises and oversees Burger King's presence in Australia, decided it was time to do something about bird burglars who were snatching french fries (chips, to Australians). In a video in which seagulls are dubbed "pincer-mouthed, chip-addicted feather reptiles," the company presents its solution: A fry container that scares gulls. "Printed on holographic paper, the glittering surface reflects...

Enlarge ImageThis year's grand prize wier is Siyuan Niu for his work entitled "Man and the Eagle."IPPA AwardsThe aual iPhone Photography Awards recognizes professionals and amateurs around the world using iOS cameras and digital processing apps to capture creative photos, and today the collective aounced the wiers of its ninth competition. The applicants this year numbered in the thousands and spaed 139 countries around the world, but the grand prize was awarded to a Chinese photographer named Siyuan Niu for his work entitled "Man and the Eagle." The image shows a 70-year old Mongolian man holding the gaze of his golden eagle while they pose in the foreground of the Tianshan Mountains. Niu, ...

Enlarge ImageThis box of Ruby Roman grapes cost more than some cars. The Asahi Shimbun via Getty Images Things you could buy with $350 (or £271, or AU $468):--Two tickets to see Adele in concert, with money left over for parking.--One round-trip flight from New York to Miami, with enough left over for a mojito or two.--One pair Bose noise-canceling wireless headphones.--One Xbox One console, with money left over for games.--Three Disneyland tickets, with money left over for a plateful of Mickey-shaped waffles.--1,160 Twinkies.Or one grape. One single, solitary grape, which you can then pop in your mouth and d...

People collect a lot of stuff: coins, stamps, Star Wars figures -- you name it. And for those numismatists and philatelists of the world, Microsoft has a new app for archiving their passions and sharing them with the world: Thinga.Me. Screenshot by Jacob Krol/CNET Yes, you can already take photos of your trophy shelf and post that on Facebook, Twitter or Pinterest. But Thinga.Me can take a photo of an object and automatically cut out the background. You can then move the digital item into a collection, which you can customize through different themes. Think of it as a digital scrapbook. If that sounds cool to...

The Chinese Communist Youth League and CD REV, a rap group from southwest China, want to set the record straight on what the real China is like.The solution? A bizarre English-language hip hop track called "This is China" and an accompanying video, both of which dropped on Chinese micro-blogging site Weibo late last week.The 4-minute song, which has received nearly 50,000 shares, seeks to "restore the impression you have" of China, which the rappers say has been "exactly fabricated by [the] media for a long time." [embedded content] Some highlights: "First things first, we all know that China is developing country, it has large population and it i...

Enlarge ImageBioShock: The Collection will take you up high and down low with all three games and their DLC. 2K It's been almost a decade since the first Bioshock game was released and, just like a splicer locked out of Rapture, we've been holding our breath for a chance to go back inside that world. Now, the much-loved trilogy is being remastered and re-released Bioshock: The Collection will include the original Bioshock, alongside Bioshock 2 and Bioshock Infinite, as well as the DLC for each game and a director's commentary from director Ken Levine and lead artist Shawn Roberston. It's all single-player gam...

Enlarge Image NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS Just as Cassini has spent 12 years giving us an unprecedented look at Satu, so too does NASA hope the Juno probe will provide invaluable information about our solar system's biggest planetary resident. After nearly five years en route to Jupiter, Juno has nearly arrived at its destination.And it's sent back a little teaser of what's to come: a colour photograph of Jupiter and its four largest moons. Clockwise from top left, the white dots are Ganymede, Io, Europa and Callisto, with Jupiter appearing in yellow on the right, its cloud bands just visible. This image was taken ...

Apple distributed the straps among employees taking part in Pride. Reddit user Sakusuhon Apple joined with revellers across the world this weekend to celebrate LGBT rights, with the company's employees and Chief Executive Tim Cook participating in the San Francisco Pride parade.The company distributed rainbow-patteed wristbands for the Apple Watch to employees who joined the celebrations, according to Reddit user Sakusuhon. Posting a picture of the band, Sakusuhon said they were "distributed as gifts for registration" and that he didn't know whether they would be made available to the public."This limited-edi...