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[embedded content] Some people like to live on the edge, but daredevil Flaviu Ceescu prefers to unicycle on the edge. On Wednesday, Ceescu posted a YouTube video of himself and a friend having fun on top of a very tall abandoned factory chimney measuring 840 feet high (256 meters) at CET Targu Jiu in Romania. The video shows Ceescu riding his unicycle the chimney's rim, as well as performing various circus tricks such as balancing on pieces of wood and juggling oranges. He also shows how scary the climb down can be as he slowly maneuvers through bent metal railings, crumbling stone walls and the kind of rickety ladder not even Indiana Jones would...

Cseh was trying to keep pace with fellow competitors like US swimmer Michael Phelps, the Olympian who has won the most gold medals ever (22 and counting). Phelps won the 200-meter butterfly by just .04 of a second -- the closest margin of victory in history. "He led the whole way, but guys were chasing him right down to the end," said Pretty about Phelps. "One of the best displays of swimming I've ever seen." Let's block ads! بخوانید...

Josh Miller/CNET Samsung hoped that no Olympic athlete would leave Rio empty handed. The South Korean electronics giant provided the more than 11,000 athletes competing in the Rio 2016 Olympics with a special edition Galaxy S7 smartphone.One country, however, has refused the free gift. According to a report from Radio Free Asia, North Korea prevented the country's 31 competing athletes from receiving the complimentary smartphone. The report claims a North Korean official went to the Samsung office and took all of the phones that were to be provided to the country's athletes.Kim Song I, a North Korean athlete...

Viewers streamed 883 million live minutes of the 2016 Rio Olympics through Tuesday. Screenshot by Josh Goldman/CNET Watching athletes break records on your phone has helped NBC break an Olympic record of its own. Through Tuesday, viewers streamed 883 million live minutes of the Olympics, blowing past the 818 million minutes of live video streamed for the entire 2012 London Olympics. That includes video streamed via NBCOlympics.com and the NBC Sports app. "The 2016 Rio Olympics is the first in US media history with prime-time Olympic coverage on chaels other than the primary broadcast network," NBC said in ...

Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech th...

Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that's taken over our lives.Enlarge ImageHe's a tweeter. He's a wier. Dan Craven; Twitter screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET I knew the headline was true, because it was on Twitter.More precisely, it was on the official Twitter Sports feed. It read, "Namibian#Olympics cyclist Tweeted through his entire race."Immediately, I pictured a heaving human with one hand on the handlebars and the other clutching his iPhone. Then I looked at the small print. Beneath Twitter Sports' headline that would no longer pass muster on Facebook was a clarification...

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...

Athletes can't just focus on sticking the perfect landing or diving with flawless form at the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. They'll also have to worry about Zika. Fortunately, it's not just athletes converging in Brazil. One organization is using mapping technology to track the spread of the infectious disease. Another is giving away smart thermometers to keep tabs on symptoms that might flare up. The World Health Organization launched a Zika app to provide information about the disease. After the Olympics, IBM will provide local authorities with ways to track weather, social media data and travel pattes. It's just the latest example where technology plays an increasingly critical role in ...

Uchimura roamed too far in his search for Pokemon. Koki Nagahama/Getty Images Japanese Olympic gymnast Kohei Uchimura loves catching zubats and pidgeys, but perhaps a little too much.The five-time Olympic medalist racked up a $5,000 phone bill for data roaming charges while playing Pokemon Go in the run-up to the upcoming games in Brazil. Teammate Kenzo Shirai said Uchimura "looked dead at the team meal that day" after receiving the bill.But, things ended up working out for Uchimura: His phone company let him pay a daily flat rate of $30 a day instead of the 500,000 yen bill, according to Japan's Kyodo news a...

A still from Apple's latest commercial. Apple We've got more similarities than differences. That's the key theme of Apple's latest commercial, which is set to air during the opening ceremony at the Rio Olympics on Friday night, but was posted early on Apple.com and YouTube. It is the latest ad in Apple's "shot on iPhone" campaign, which uses photos and videos taken by its customers. The intent is to show off the camera capability of its iPhones. But Apple has focused more on social responsibility under CEO Tim Cook, and the commercial, narrated by author Maya Angelou, feels like it's part of that focus. The t...

Enlarge Image Strava Strava, a popular app for ruers and cyclists, has aounced a new safety feature for premium members. The feature, called Beacon, lets users broadcast their real-time location to friends and family members. Here's how it works. You tu Beacon on before you start an activity and then select up to three contacts you would like to share your location with -- they don't have to be Strava users. The app will automatically send a text message to the selected contacts that contains a link to your activity. Your loved ones will then be able to see exactly where you are on a map and follow along duri...

With only three days to go before the opening ceremonies, Twitter is gearing up for the Rio Olympics, including a special section in its Moments feature capturing all of the games' biggest, well, moments. The social network is also releasing hundreds of Olympic-related emojis. Fans can get into the spirit by tweeting a three-letter country code hashtag displaying flag emojis for every team, including the Refugee Olympic Team (#ROT)."Twitter's activation of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games will bring fans around the world together to see what's happening with the teams before, during and after the top athletes compete for glory," Leslie Berland, Twitter's chief marketing officer said a blog. "Twitt...

Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that's taken over our lives.Enlarge ImageIt's curiously affecting. Samsung/YouTube screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET Brands are desperate to infiltrate the Olympics Games because they assume everyone will be watching. Consumer electronics giant Samsung is among the official sponsors of the Rio de Janeiro games, which may not be entirely positive given the unfortunately typical terrorism threats, as well as the spread of the Zika virus and "super bacteria." But once the money is spent, you have to make the most of it. So on Thursday, Samsung ...

The US is one of 14 countries to get its own Olympic watch strap. Apple Apple has cooked up a new way for you to show your support your national team at the upcoming Olympic games in Rio by creating dedicated Apple Watch bands inspired by a selection of flags.But there's a catch -- they're only available in Brazil.Set to go on sale at the Apple Store at VillageMall in Barra da Tijuca in August for $49 (329BRL), the straps are designed to represent the flags of 14 major competitors in the games. Both the US and the UK get their own straps, as well as the Netherlands, South Africa, New Zealand, Mexico, Japan, J...

YouTuber PewDiePie made almost as much as "Guardians of the Galaxy" star Chris Pratt in 2015. Getty A clamoring mob is a clamoring mob, regardless of who's at the center of the throng.That's the lesson companies like Facebook are leaing about inteet celebrities. Is Swedish YouTube personality PewDiePie on par with Brad Pitt? In a sense, it doesn't matter. In June, The Wall Street Joual found that Facebook is paying celebrities and media outlets to use its new live streaming service, Facebook Live. Among those celebrities are recognizable names -- names that come from television and sports, like comedian and a...

Enlarge Image Sarah Tew/CNET What would happen if you took a Garmin bike computer, combined it with a GoPro, and added a splash of Strava? You may get something like the Bycle, a new iPhone accessory that is designed for cyclist and commuters.At first glance, you may think the Bycle is simply an iPhone case that can be attached to the handlebars of your bike. While that's true, it's only half the story. The device, which is designed to fit the iPhone 6/S and iPhone 6/S Plus, features a unique prism design that allows you to use your phone's camera to capture forward-facing videos and photos of your ride. The ...

The Olympics are venturing into virtual reality for the first time, letting you beam yourself into the middle of your favorite event -- but only if you have a Samsung Gear VR and pay for cable or satellite. Samsung and its Gear VR headset will be the exclusive virtual-reality device to watch the first Olympics VR footage of the games in Rio starting in August, the company said in a release Thursday. Josh Miller/CNET A high-profile event like the Olympics is Samsung's bid to widen VR's appeal to more mainstream consumers and encourage their loyalty. Samsung is competing with rivals like higher-end Oculus Rift...

Enlarge ImageIs this Samsung's next special edition phone?Evan BlassRumor has it that Samsung will release an exclusive version of the Galaxy S7 Edge for the 2016 Rio Olympics. This wouldn't be a huge surprise coming from a sponsor that has already released an emotional ad about the Olympic Games.Though the Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Olympic Edition was initially reported three months ago when SamMobile "received information" about the device, a newly leaked photo from Evan Blass has surfaced and rekindled the rumor's flames. Blass has a reputation for reliably breaking stories through his Twitter handle evleaks.The purported Olympic Edition of the phone looks very sleek. It's all black, save f...

Ibtihaj Muhammad hopes to highlight diversity in sports during the Olympics this summer. Sarah Tew/CNET Ibtihaj Muhammad, one of the top-ranked fencers in the world, will make history this August when she becomes the first US woman to compete in the Olympics wearing a hijab. Though she's already helped highlight diversity in sports, an episode at the South by Southwest conference in Austin this year shows there's still a lot of work to be done. At the conference registration desk, she was asked to remove her hijab for an ID photo. She called out the request on Twitter and SXSW apologized. CNET caught ...