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Description A newly belligerent Chinese govement leaves US President Jack Ryan with only a few desperate options in this continuation of the number one New York Times best-selling Tom Clancy series. Jack Ryan is dealing with an aggressive challenge from the Chinese govement. Pawns are being moved around a global chessboard: an attack on an oil platform in Africa, a terrorist strike on an American destroyer, and a storm-tossed American spy ship that may fall into Chinese hands. It seems that President Zhao is determined to limit Ryan's choices in the upcoming G20 negotiations. But there are hints that there's even more going on behind the sc...

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Enlarge Image RR Auction The Power-Driven Articulated Dummy is a strange aside in NASA's space race story, and now you can own it. The space suit testing robot is going up for grabs as part of RR Auctions' Remarkable Rarities Auction.The human body is not designed for space. As we get into higher and higher altitudes, as air pressure lowers and eventually becomes the vacuum of space, the survival rate of an unprotected human body lowers. This is why astronauts wear those chunky suits as they move around in space. Those suits, among other things, provide a stable inteal pressure that keeps the wearer's body fro...

[embedded content] Twice a year, around the time of the autumnal and veal equinoxes, is the Solar Dynamics Observatory's eclipse season. From its vantage point in geosynchronous orbit around the Earth, the SDO's view of the sun is blocked once a day by the Earth. And on the rare occasion, both the Earth and the moon pass between the SDO and the sun -- a rare double eclipse. One of these took place on September 1, when first the Earth, then the moon, were captured blocking out the sun as the SDO filmed the whole thing in hi-res. It's not quite as dramatic as a solar eclipse take from the Earth, but it's still interesting if you know what you'r...

And that was the end of SpaceX' Falcon 9 and Spacecom's Amos-6 communications satellite. USLaunchReport video/Screenshot by CNET An explosion that destroyed a SpaceX rocket carrying an Israeli satellite last week is being felt well beyond Cape Canaveral, Florida.Israel-based Space Communication told reporters Sunday that it could seek $50 million or a free flight from Elon Musk's SpaceX to cover the cost of its now destroyed Amos-6 advanced communications satellite, according to Reuters. The explosion occurred on Thursday moing during a routine firing of SpaceX' Falcon 9 at Cape Canaveral.During the conference...

Enlarge ImageThis image was taken about two hours prior to Juno's closest approach to Jupiter. NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS Jupiter's south pole was well documented by Cassini on its way to Satu, but the north pole (home of Jovian Santa, one could only assume) has remained much more mysterious. This is set to change with the arrival of Jupiter probe Juno, which completed its first flyby of the north pole on August 27 and has already started delivering.On that flyby, Juno got busy taking photos with its JunoCam instrument from a distance of just 4,200 kilometres (2,500 miles) above Jupiter's clouds as it travelle...

Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that's taken over our lives.Enlarge ImageA bit of a giveaway? Stuart Police Department/ Facebook I've never been on the run, though some days I think I know what it feels like.I feel sure, however, that if I was trying to evade capture by the police, I would check my Facebook page to make sure there wasn't anything incriminating on it.This was allegedly not the case with Mack Yearwood.As the Stuart Police Department in Florida said on its Facebook page: "If you are wanted by the police, it's probably not a good idea to use the 'Wanted of the Week...

Welcome to IFA, the largest technology tradeshow in Europe. Held in Berlin, Germany, the show sees tech giants like Samsung, Sony, LG and many more come together to launch their latest gadgets.CNET attends the show every year to get first looks at all the new gear, but it's behind the scenes where the most interesting sights are often found.Click through to see what it's like to report from this big show. Let's block ads! بخوانید...

Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that's taken over our lives.Enlarge ImageCan the show go on exciting? Andrew Burton, Getty Images We're putting ourselves more on display than ever.We're posting our glorious lives to Facebook and our gnarly anger to Twitter. We're preening and posing and dressing to impress. We're constantly slipping selfies into every Snapchat and text, to the point where young women are said to spend five hours a week actually taking them.Many of our most popular figures manipulate the new media by displaying themselves fully on it. They're famous for knowing ...

If the price tag of a new phone makes you sweat, you're not alone.Since all four major carriers have done away with their device subsidies, US consumers for the first time are seeing how much their fancy phones actually cost. And it's not pretty. While we've all been trained to lust for the latest Apple iPhone or Samsung Galaxy gadget, which cost a small fortune, the reality is that you can still get a pretty sophisticated, good-quality phone for a fraction of the price. In this edition of Ask Maggie, I spell out options for a frugal shopper. Dear Maggie,My old phone is on the fritz. I need a new one stat, but the prices are horrifying. I've heard old iPhones drop in price right after the ne...

As part of our coverage of Star Trek's 50th aiversary, I talked with a dozen cast members from across the franchise about everything from Star Trek's inclusive message to how it feels to be a sex symbol to nerds. Jeri Ryan didn't want the role at first. The then up-and-comer was trying to kickstart her career after eaing a theater degree and wiing the Miss Illinois beauty pageant (she later competed in Miss America, coming in fourth place). "I wasn't remotely interested in science fiction," Ryan said of her pre-Star Trek days. Sure, she'd watched some episodes of the original series. But she'd also heard the shows had a history of stymieing some actor's careers. ...

Everyone can be an Imperial Death Trooper with this electronic voice changing mask. Hasbro Prank calls will never be the same again when you can impersonate an intimidating Imperial Death Trooper from "Rogue One: A Star Wars Story."This electronic mask changes your voice when you push a button, so you can pretend to go to battle -- or just order a pizza -- as a Death Trooper. The mask requires three 1.5-volt AA batteries, which are included.Death troopers are considered to be the elite variant of the Galactic Empire's Stormtrooper forces and part of the Empire's Military Intelligence. They are easily recogniz...

Create a meal for a Time Lord with "Doctor Who: The Official Cookbook." Harper Design/Amazon Supreme Dalek Cake. Cyberman Pie. Cassandra Pizza. Ood Rolls.These are just a few of the yummy treats "Doctor Who" fans can make thanks to a new cookbook from the BBC and British food writer Joaa Farrow. "Doctor Who: The Official Cookbook," published by Harper Design, features 40 recipes for easy-to-make dishes, all with a Whovian twist. Re-create the Doctor's own favorite meal of fish fingers and custard, or try your hand at making an impressive gingerbread Tardis.There are also instructions on how to bake and decorat...

Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that's taken over our lives.Enlarge ImageA wiing sell? Screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET Donald Trump hasn't quite become the rock star with milleials that he is with more disceing types.Neither has Hillary Clinton. Recent polling suggests that 37 percent of the young and restless have a strongly unfavorable opinion of the Democratic candidate. Then again, 50 percent feel the same strongly negative way about her Republican opponent.How can the Trump campaign address this troubling trend in the race to the bottom? On Friday, it offered a twin-pr...

Got a Star Trek story? Maybe, like me, you dressed in starship captain uniforms for Halloween and snuck into the family room past your bedtime to watch reruns, no matter how tired you'd be the next day at school. Or maybe you never watched Star Trek, but you still know the difference between Klingons and Romulans. At the very least, you probably know how to separate your fingers into the iconic Vulcan salute and offer up a "Live long and prosper." With the Star Trek franchise tuing 50 on September 8, I asked a dozen cast members from six of Star Trek's TV shows and movies, including Zoe Saldana, Gates McFadden and Jeri Ryan, to share their stories. During t...

This is part of our Road Trip 2016 summer series "Life, Disrupted," about how technology is helping with the global refugee crisis -- if at all.The main street in Mytilene, on the Greek island of Lesvos, wraps around the green-tinted Aegean like a horseshoe. Brightly painted buildings line the road while wooden sailboats bob near the pier. It's beautiful.It's also where I bump into Waleed, a young boy I'd met earlier that day at the gate of the Kara Tepe refugee camp just outside town.He was fishing with two other migrants.I ask where his mom is. He points back toward the camp. "Kara Tepe," he tells me.And his father?"Dad. Syria. Psh, Psh," he says, pointing a finger to his head while imitat...

This is part of our Road Trip 2016 summer series "Life, Disrupted," about how technology is helping with the global refugee crisis -- if at all. Most people think of Greece as a great place to escape from the stress of everyday life. But not to the more than 57,000 people now trapped there. In 2015, more than 1.1 million refugees and migrants fled war and chaos in the Middle East and Africa to seek shelter in Europe. More than two-thirds of them came through Greece on their way to places like Germany, Sweden and the UK. That changed in March, when an agreement between the EU and Turkey -- combined with nearby countries' decisions to close their borders to migrants -- transformed Greece f...

Want a smarter Alexa, savvier Siri, brainier Google Now or a cleverer Cortana? So do Amazon, Apple, Alphabet and Microsoft -- and each is working to make its voice assistant your personal Einstein of choice. Amazon recently enhanced its efforts by nabbing an AI expert from eBay, The Wall Street Joual reported Friday. Hassan Sawaf is now Amazon's director of artificial intelligence, focusing on "the user experience for users of Amazon's search capability across all products and businesses," according to Sawaf's LinkedIn page. The Joual was one of the first to spot Sawaf's updated responsibilities on LinkedIn. "eBay has wide and deep capabilities in AI across the technology organization, and ...

Subscribe to the Apple Byte PodcastiTunes MP3 | RSS MP3 | FeedBuer MP3SoundCloud | Google Play | TuneIniTunes video | RSS video | FeedBuer videoYouTube | Livestream| Stitcher Extra Crunchy Podcast, Ep. 53 Your browser does not support the audio element. [embedded content]EXTRA CRUNCHY SHOW NOTES:See you on the 7th. Apple's InviteSamsung recalls Galaxy Note 7 over battery flawSpec Sheet Shows iPhone 7 Plus With 256GB Storage and Lightning EarPodsApple Headphones News:Apple Granted Product Certifications for 'AirPods', New iPhones and Apple Watch ModelsBragi teases 'big' aouncement happening next week in Cupertino, possible Apple d...

[embedded content] Some might say that sports mascots are already a parody of themselves, but no one can take the ridiculous and make it even fuier than Christopher Guest. The man who tackled the world of dog shows ("Best in Show") and folk singers ("A Mighty Wind"), among other mockumentaries, now takes on team spirit for Netflix in "Mascots."The first trailer for the movie shows Guest getting the old gang back together, that is, one of the fuiest and cleverest improv ensemble casts around. Like in "Best in Show," Guest takes you behind the scenes of a mascot competition, with gems like, "I went to the Fluffies five years ago. I got honorable me...